Oct 1, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement between the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG and the cancer drug development company Systems Oncology LLC....
Sep 28, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Erik Nelson, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Illinois graduate student, Liqian Ma, recently discovered that a cholesterol metabolite hijacks immune cells to derail the body’s natural defense...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois is a basic science research institution, where members contribute to cancer research by studying biological pathways and genetics, discover and test new drugs, improve medical imaging techniques, develop and evaluate cancer models, and...
Jul 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, member of the Cancer Center at Illinois and Cancer Research Advocacy Group, attributes her passion for cancer research to the serendipity in the science. Madak-Erdogan’s interest in researching cancer began during high-school, when the first...
Jul 17, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Breast cancer patients are 60 percent more likely to die of cancer after surviving a heart attack, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers reported that heart attacks, by blocking blood flow through arteries, trigger a specific, pro-cancer...
Jul 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
ELISABETH MARTIN JUNIOR UNDERGRADUATE, BIOENGINEERING CANCER SCHOLARS PROGRAM HOW DID YOUR EDUCATIONAL PATH LEAD YOU TO CANCER RESEARCH? I am studying Bioengineering with a track in Imaging and Sensing. I plan to minor in Spanish and Electrical Engineering. I chose to...
Jun 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Three interdisciplinary projects designed by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty were selected for the Cancer Center at Illinois’ annual seed grant awards. The CCIL’s seed grant funding has supported transformative transdisciplinary research and...
Jun 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
While the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign slogan, “Fighting Illini,” is most commonly used to describe the university’s athletics, it’s taken on a whole new meaning within the laboratories of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Having battled cancer...
Jun 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Twenty years ago, Christel Seyfert was diagnosed with breast cancer. Today, she advocates for cancer patients as a member of Prairie Dragon Paddlers – a boat racing team dedicated to providing outreach and educational initiatives in support of breast cancer...
Jun 3, 2020 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Bridging the engineering-biology continuum is a puzzle that drives and fascinates cancer researchers like Joy Chen, a junior undergraduate bioengineering student at the University of Illinois, former researcHStart student, and current Cancer Scholar. A Cancer Center...
Apr 15, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Catherine Applegate, PhD candidate in Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN), researches the effects of diet and obesity on prostate cancer. During the last year of her degree, Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer – but she was determined not to let the disease...
Apr 2, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director and professor of bioengineering, has recently published a paper, “Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Visualizes a Prognostic Extracellular Matrix-Related Signature in Breast Cancer,” in Scientific Reports. The study identified...
