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...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Announcement originally from School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named Erik Nelson, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, the 2020-2021 Gunsalus Scholar. Nelson was recognized for his...
Feb 15, 2020 | Cancer Center News
By adding infrared capability to the ubiquitous, standard optical microscope, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hope to bring cancer diagnosis into the digital era. Pairing infrared measurements with high-resolution optical images and...
Jan 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Interview originally from Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. CCIL Member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, assistant professor of food and science and human nutrition, is the leader of the Women’s Health and Nutrition Lab, where she is currently focusing on...
Jan 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Stephen Boppart, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, is using the Biophotonics Imaging Lab at the Beckman Institute to develop a system to better visualize breast cancer cells and extracellular vesicles. “We can acquire information about the structure and metabolism...
Dec 4, 2019 | Cancer Center News
CCIL and Carle Collaborators. Carle’s Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute and the Carle Cancer Center are collaborating with the Cancer Center at Illinois to bridge the gap between scientific research and cancer patients. Kendrith Rowland, MD, and Rohit...
Jun 11, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brandi Patrice Smith (left). A new review finds that lower rates of survival for African-American women with breast cancer are linked to segregation, poverty and lack of access to healthcare facilities. Thousands of studies on breast cancer have looked at...
May 9, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Dr. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. Dr. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan discussed the findings of her NCSA faculty fellowship project on May 9. Her work looked at the issue of cancer health disparities among African American using several scales simultaneously to understand the...
Apr 5, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Cancer lurking in tissue could be more easily found when looking through a butterfly’s eye. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the morpho...
Apr 3, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of William Arnold, a graduate student in biochemistry, and Aditi Das, an assistant professor of biochemistry and bioengineering graduate program. There are many anti-cancer therapeutics that are effective at killing cancer, but some can have serious side...
Mar 17, 2018 | Cancer Center News
This award is presented for outstanding, novel, and significant chemistry research, which has led to important contributions to the fields of basic cancer research, translational cancer research, cancer diagnosis, the prevention of cancer, or the treatment of patients...
