Apr 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Comparisons of high definition and standard definition infrared imaging for digital histopathology. Urbana, Ill. – Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be...
Mar 25, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Light is most commonly employed in cancer research via imaging tools to diagnose, treat, and otherwise inform physicians and researchers. However, CCIL member Kai Zhang and his lab are exploring the use of light for optogenetics, an interdisciplinary...
Mar 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu was awarded a $250K CCIL Seed Grant in support of his research of the characterization of oncogenic noncoding RNAs in breast cancer progression and metastasis. A year...
Feb 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Four in ten* patients screened for breast cancer are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis due to the presence of dense breast tissue. Traditional mammography cannot reliably diagnose the disease in these patients, sometimes even with the help of supplemental screening....
Feb 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
In 2019, Hua Li, research associate professor of bioengineering, was awarded more than $2M from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) shortly after joining the University of Illinois. Since receiving the NCI funds, Li, also a clinical medical physicist at Carle...
Jan 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
When Kim Selting, Illinois associate professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was selected for the 2020-2021 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship led by the OpEd Project in August 2020, she was unsure how to marry her personal opinion with evidence-based science....
Nov 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member, Michael Oelze, and his collaborative breast cancer and ultrasound imaging research with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, was awarded a major $2M grant from the National Cancer Institute...
Nov 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
ILLINOIS — A desire to improve the status of cancer patient treatments led former theoretical physicist, Jun Song (PhD), to pivot his career towards cancer research. He spent several years learning about cancer biology and retraining to apply his background in...
Nov 16, 2020 | Cancer Center News
In November, organizations around the world recognize a number of cancer-related awareness topics. It’s a month dedicated to Lung Cancer Awareness, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness, and Cancer Caregiver Awareness — honoring the individuals who devote their lives to...
Oct 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois is excited to announce the inaugural recipients of the Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Qianying Zuo, an Illinois graduate student in food science and nutrition, and Joy Chen, a bioengineering undergraduate, were awarded...
Oct 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Hi! I’m Catherine, a dietitian and a postdoctoral cancer researcher in the department of Animal Sciences at Illinois. Last year, I was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year, I shared some of my experiences with the...
Oct 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate in the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Boudreau’s research has centered around a novel...