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$2.5M NIH grant awarded to CCIL scientist to advance ultrasound monitoring for breast cancer

$2.5M NIH grant awarded to CCIL scientist to advance ultrasound monitoring for breast cancer

Oct 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Images showing coronal, axial, and sagittal speed of sound images of the breast, taken with the QT Imaging scanner. Urbana, Ill. – A Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher has been awarded a multi-million-dollar federal grant to develop an advanced...
New engineering approach enhances antibody fragments for cancer therapy

New engineering approach enhances antibody fragments for cancer therapy

Apr 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Shannon Sirk Technological advancements over the past few decades have laid the groundwork for the use of microbe-based drugs to treat diseases. Bioengineering professor Shannon Sirk and her lab are engineering human commensal microbes into living therapeutics,...
Illinois Scientist Developing Cancer Drug Delivery Method with Bioengineered Microbes

Illinois Scientist Developing Cancer Drug Delivery Method with Bioengineered Microbes

Mar 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Shannon Sirk and the Sirk Research Group. Urbana, Ill. – An Illinois research team is developing a method of producing and delivering monoclonal antibody treatments for breast cancer through commensal microbes in the gut. If successful, this approach could increase...
Cancer Center at Illinois team finds treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

Cancer Center at Illinois team finds treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

Mar 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Image of Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – A new study by Cancer Center at Illinois Education Program Leader, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and her team, have found a new mechanism of endocrine resistance in breast cancers metastasized to the liver. The study, published in...
Illinois student utilizing nanoparticles for better cancer imaging, treatment

Illinois student utilizing nanoparticles for better cancer imaging, treatment

Feb 22, 2022 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program

Image of Opeyemi Arogundade. Urbana, Ill. – Opeyemi Arogundade, Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) program trainee and student in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist, Andrew Smith’s, lab, is applying his academic background in physics to cancer research and...
Where are they now? CCIL scholarship awardee You Jin Song

Where are they now? CCIL scholarship awardee You Jin Song

Dec 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight

Image of You Jin Song. Urbana, Ill. – You Jin Song, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Kannanganattu Prasanth’s lab, is studying the effects of MALAT1, a long-noncoding RNA that is believed to play an important role in many...
TiME trainee awarded CCIL 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship

TiME trainee awarded CCIL 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship

Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program

Image of Ashlie Santaliz Casiano. Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce the recipient of the Fall 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Ashlie Santaliz Casiano, graduate student in the Division of Nutritional...
Student and postdoctoral researchers drive AI development for cancer research

Student and postdoctoral researchers drive AI development for cancer research

Dec 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Urbana, Ill. – The Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory at the University of Illinois focuses on chemical imaging to improve our understanding of the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. Led by the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and founder...
Professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan joins CCIL’s education program leadership

Professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan joins CCIL’s education program leadership

Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce that Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, associate professor of food science and health nutrition (FSHN), has been appointed a CCIL Program Leader. Focusing on education, she will join...
Study finds moderate exercise may alleviate chemo-brain in cancer survivors

Study finds moderate exercise may alleviate chemo-brain in cancer survivors

Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Image of Elizabeth Salerno. Urbana, Ill. – Elizabeth Salerno, a former Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR) student, is continuing her cancer research as an assistant professor of surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, St....
Postmenopausal women may benefit from estrogen compound research

Postmenopausal women may benefit from estrogen compound research

Oct 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News

(L to R): University of Illinois researchers John Katzenellenbogen, Benita Katzenellenbogen, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, and Sung Hoon Kim showed pathway preferential estrogens may be a safer alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Photo by Seth Turner URBANA, Ill. –...
CCIL C★STAR research team awarded NIH funding to develop breast cancer imaging device

CCIL C★STAR research team awarded NIH funding to develop breast cancer imaging device

Oct 18, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Image of Michael Oelze. Urbana, Ill. – A Carle Illinois College of Medicine research team is developing a new device that will improve the management of breast cancer using ultrasound imaging.  The team has innovated new radiological clips that will increase...
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