Mar 4, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Michael Mulligan, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother, recently discovered that a small molecule called ErSO-TFPy has the ability to drastically reduce the size of large breast tumors in mice. Even more...
Dec 10, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: testicular cancer, therapy, drug targets Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young males ages 15 to 35. The most conventional chemotherapy drug used to treat this is called cisplatin, but it is toxic and comes with many...
Dec 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hee-Sun Han has developed an Intracellular Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit (InSTAnT) that allows researchers to look at subcellular patterns. The research findings are published in Nature Communications. After intensive...
Nov 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
In a newly established collaboration between the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute (OSF) in Peoria, IL and the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), five project proposals were selected to receive funding through the Breakthrough and Advanced Treatment of (BEAT) Cancer...
Oct 9, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 5 minutesKeywords: digital resolution biosensing, cancer biomarker, antibody detection, dynamic assay, micro RNA, microscopy Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham has developed two new biomarker detection instruments with the...
Sep 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Illinois has discovered a potential new treatment option for drug-resistant breast cancer. Their findings, published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, demonstrates the role of activators of...
Sep 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
For typical illnesses, the body’s immune system is a robust, pathogen-killing machine. It provides a general defense against harmful germs while also adapting and producing antibodies that target specific bacteria or viruses. After fighting off an infection like...
Jun 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
New research led by a Carle Illinois College of Medicine student suggests sampling the genetic makeup of tumors in the liver could help identify the most effective cancer-fighting strategy. The studies focus on identifying genetic markers that could point the way to...
Jun 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
June is National Cancer Survivors Month, a time to celebrate survivors and recognize their unique hardships during and after battling the disease. The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) appreciates a survivor’s journey and the value these perspectives give researchers....
May 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Mohammed El-Kebir is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in computational biology, and his lab has made major advances in...
May 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Mechanochemical Dynamic Therapy (MDT) working group held its first workshop on May 21 to promote collaboration among researchers. The working group is housed in the CCIL’s Cancer Measurement Technology and Data Science (CMD)...
May 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Much like a criminal profiler tracking a suspect, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Chitra Subramanian is tracking lipids in her quest to discover new tools for diagnosing and treating cancers that start in the head and neck. The research uses two powerful tools...
