Oct 21, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Scientists have made incredible progress in developing cancer therapies that help patients across cancer types. However, they face limitations in determining the results of drug effectiveness, as well as ensuring even distribution among all cancers cells because of...
Jun 9, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Lin-Feng Chen published new research reporting an important factor driving chemoresistance for patients with colorectal cancer. The research is published in the journal Oncogene. Chen’s study found that the protein BRD4—present...
May 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, published new research in Materials Today Bio demonstrating the development of a novel technology to prevent post-surgical recurrence of breast cancer, especially...
May 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Hua Wang and Rohit Bhargava, in collaboration with clinical partners Dr. Kanishka Sircar and Dr. Jose Karam at MD Anderson, received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) Congressional Directed...
Feb 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Jeff Chan, associate professor of chemistry, recently published research demonstrating the development of an activatable cancer therapeutic to help eliminate the side effects of traditional chemotherapies. “There are many potent...
Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Hua Wang and Ph.D. student Rimsha Bhatta Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang published new research with promising developments for the future of personalized cancer therapeutics. In a Nature Communications...
Dec 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Veterinary comparative oncology researchers are exploring a new immunotherapy option for patients with aggressive malignant melanoma. The University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital team includes members of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). In a...
Nov 1, 2023 | Cancer Center News
(From left) Brendan Harley, Rex Gaskins, Andrew Steelman, and Payton Haak studied the role of the mitochondrial protein CHCHD2 in glioblastoma Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor that affects adults and, unfortunately, still remains incurable. In a new...
Oct 23, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois bioengineering faculty members are playing key roles in a new joint center for mRNA delivery and cancer immunotherapy (CCIT). This new center is co-lead by Professor Shuming Nie at UIUC and by Professor Youqing Shen at Zhejiang University (ZJU). It involves a...
Aug 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers have demonstrated a novel two-step strategy to label and eradicate cancer stem-like cells (CSC) to improve cancer treatment prognosis. CSCs are small sub-populations of cancer cells that constitute less than five percent of...
Jul 27, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) program leader Tim Fan, professor of veterinary medical science, is collaborating with former Illinois faculty member Dane Wittrup on an innovative cancer immunotherapy research project with client-owned pet dogs that have soft-tissue...
May 18, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Brian Cunningham, left, is joined by research team members Priyash Barya, Skye Shepherd, and Yanyu Xiong Researchers from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham’s lab in collaboration with researchers at Washington University have...
