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...
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....
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. –...
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...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate cancer, using single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs, which refer to mutations in a person’s...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Sisi He, PhD Candidate, Molecular and Integrative PhysiologyTiMe 2016 CohortC*STAR 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? Currently I’m working as a scientist at NGM Biopharmaceuticals located at California Bay area. What are you currently researching? I am...
Sep 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Benita Katzenellenbogen (left) and John Katzenellenbogen (left). Urbana, Ill. – CCIL members Benita Katzenellenbogen, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of chemistry, collaborated with researchers at Scripps...
Aug 25, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Urbana, Ill. – Joy Chen, a former Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) student, is attending the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Joint Bioengineering Program this fall, where she hopes to continue...
Jul 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Estrogen receptors, proteins that promote cell growth, are therapeutic targets for endocrine-based breast cancer therapies. These therapies, including aromatase inhibitor treatments, perform well against breast cancer cells with normal, “wild type”...
Jul 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – As a Johnson & Johnson 2021 WISTEM2D Scholar Award winner, chemistry professor Hee-Sun Han will be developing a new imaging-based methodology to study RNA-RNA interactions in breast cancer. Each year, the company selects six world-leading female...
Jul 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers on the study include, from front left, research scientist Chengjian Mao and graduate students Matthew Boudreau, Darjan Duraki and Ji Eun Kim. In the back row, from left, are molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson, chemistry...
Jul 19, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Henry Deap, undergraduate studying cell biologyCancer Scholars Program, 2019 Cohort Hometown: Mundelein, Ill. Do you have past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? Yes, I worked with Gregory Karczmar, PhD, Professor of Radiology at the University of...
