Aug 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers developed a method that makes membrane-bound receptors reactive to light, triggering the Wnt pathway, important in embryonic development and cancer. Image courtesy of Kai Zhang. Urbana, Ill. – Blue light is illuminating a new understanding of a...
Aug 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A team of Beckman researchers led by Kianoush Falahkheirkhah, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Rohit Bhargava, director of the Cancer Center at Illinois, developed new software to boost infrared imaging-based cancer...
Jul 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Estrogen receptors, proteins that promote cell growth, are therapeutic targets for endocrine-based breast cancer therapies. These therapies, including aromatase inhibitor treatments, perform well against breast cancer cells with normal, “wild type”...
Jul 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers on the study include, from front left, research scientist Chengjian Mao and graduate students Matthew Boudreau, Darjan Duraki and Ji Eun Kim. In the back row, from left, are molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson, chemistry...
Jul 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Four Illinois students received the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Graduate Cancer Scholarships to pursue cancer research projects under the mentorship of CCIL scientists. “A core mission of the Cancer Center at Illinois is to mobilize and...
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 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Top row, left to right: M. Taher Saif, Shannon Sirk, Kimberly Selting; Middle row: Rashid Bashir, Cecilia Leal, Jason Ridlon; Bottom row: Supriya Prasanth, Hua Li, Mohammed El-Kebir Nine interdisciplinary projects designed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
Jun 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Elucidating the Role of Minor Cannabinoids on Immune Cell Activation Involved in Lung Cancer Metastatic Progression” Research team includes: David Sarlah (Prinicipal Investigator), assistant professor of chemistry, and Timothy Fan,...
May 4, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering and Mayo Clinic have developed a new technique for creating “microcancer” cell cultures. It allows researchers to form hundreds of microcancers in a...
May 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Deep Mutational Scanning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Cancer Using Transfer Learning Approaches” Research team includes: Erik Procko, assistant professor in biochemistry What led to your exploration of cancer? Cancer is one of...
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...
Apr 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Comparisons of high definition and standard definition infrared imaging for digital histopathology. Urbana, Ill. – Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be...
