May 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Center for Environment, PFAS, and Cancer Toxicology (CEPaCT) held a meeting on April 25 at the Beckman Institute to discuss recent project and administrative updates. CEPaCT was founded by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Joseph Irudayaraj and focuses on...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In 2018 Qianying Zuo won the Kathryn Van Akken Burns Memorial Fund Merit Award while working in the lab of the CCIL’s Associate Director of Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. As a graduate student in Madak-Erdogan’s...
Feb 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
From left to right, Prof. Borislav Kondov, Viktor Gruev, and ZHongmin Zhu, shown here in the operating room at the University Clinic Hospital in North Macedonia along with the NSF-funded research team’s imaging instrument which allows for evaluation of ex vivo...
Feb 7, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan is the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Associate Professor of Food Science & Human Nutrition, and Associate Dean in the Graduate College Cancer Center at...
Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
This year proved to be one of success and growth for the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Below you’ll find 10 of the year’s biggest moments in research, education, and community engagement, meet our new members, and have the chance to dive deeper into...
Nov 21, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers David Shapiro and Paul Hergenrother Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common form of breast cancer, affecting approximately 75% of breast cancer patients. In advanced and metastatic form, it is lethal,...
Nov 9, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Blake Plotner is a junior majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology Blake Plotner can remember his excitement about science from an early age. With his mother working as a nurse, biology quickly became an interest. Despite growing up in landlocked Illinois, young...
Sep 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher and Director of Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer) New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with...
Aug 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers have demonstrated a novel two-step strategy to label and eradicate cancer stem-like cells (CSC) to improve cancer treatment prognosis. CSCs are small sub-populations of cancer cells that constitute less than five percent of...
Jun 15, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois Program Leader Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Research Assistant Ayca Nazli Mogol Illinois researchers have identified a metabolic pathway inhibitor with reduced toxicity and improved efficacy of therapeutic regimens and outcomes for metastatic...
May 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL – Beckman Institute Fellows Alejandro De la Cadena and Zane Thornburg. In fall 2023, the Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program will welcome two Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) postdoctoral researchers to its inaugural class of CCIL – Beckman...
Apr 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researchers Benita Katzenellenbogen and John Katzenellenbogen. Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Benita Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor...