Mar 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Colorectal cancer diagnoses are on the rise for people under 55. A recent American Cancer Society (ACS) report states that cases are increasing by 1% to 2% annually among people in that age group. Alarmingly, the ACS reports colorectal cancer is the leading cause of...
Mar 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A new monthly segment on WCIA will feature the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and provide an opportunity for CCIL scientists to share research developments that will help cancer patients worldwide. Director Rohit Bhargava appeared in the first installment to talk...
Mar 27, 2024 | Cancer Center News
On her first day of fourth grade, Myra Kamdar marched directly to her new teacher, skipped introductions, and confidently proclaimed she was going to be a doctor one day. Reminiscing on this moment, which her teacher still won’t let her live down today, Myra can’t...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In 2018 Qianying Zuo won the Kathryn Van Akken Burns Memorial Fund Merit Award while working in the lab of the CCIL’s Associate Director of Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak Erdogan. As a graduate student in Madak Erdogan’s...
Mar 19, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Ege Gungor Onal joined the CCIL’s Cancer Scholars Program (CSP) as a freshman in 2018. Inspired by his CSP classes, he joined CCIL Program Leader Brian Cunningham’s lab to perform cancer diagnostics research which included developing a cancer liquid biopsy...
Jul 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hailey Knox, ChemistryTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program, 2018 Cohort Where are you working now? I am currently working as a postdoctoral scholar with Professors Dennis Dougherty and Henry Lester at the California Institute of Technology. What are you currently...
Jun 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Harpal Singh, BioengineeringCancer Scholar, 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? I am a senior about to graduate this May. Following graduation, I will be working in a Biologics rotational program with the company Catalent Pharma. What are you currently researching?...
May 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla is among four early-career professors who have been recognized by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their...
Apr 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Removing the phosphate group from kinases can activate them, which can be problematic. LanCL adds glutathione to these kinases, after which they became deactivated. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers from the University of Illinois in collaboration with scientists at Oxford...
Mar 2, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – When Ron Filler (LAS ’70) learned about the groundbreaking research conducted at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), he knew he needed to bring his “Filler Effect” – the spirit of giving and mentorship – to support...
Sep 16, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Faculty and staff members from the Cancer Center at Illinois and Beckman Institute have been recognized by the U of I Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Compliance (SPaRC) for their contributions in support of research. Individuals from the Cancer Center and...
Aug 28, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Applications are now being accepted for the following Department of Defense (DoD) funding opportunities: Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2 Era of Hope Scholar Award Advocates are either highly encouraged or required for these funding opportunities, and Cancer Research...
