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...
Apr 27, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) hosted its first-ever Undergraduate Research Symposium on Tuesday, April 25, in conjunction with the university’s Undergraduate Research Week. Eighteen students presented posters on a variety of cancer-focused research...
Feb 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Wenyan Mei, professor of comparative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the first cohort of CCIL’s JumpStart Program. In an effort to catalyze more cancer research projects among Illinois...
Nov 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Just as species evolve through mutation and selection acting on individuals in a population, cancer cells and tumors evolve by mutation and selection acting on cells within the tumor. Normal cells divide and mutate over time into subpopulations of...
Mar 29, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Patricia Wolf and H. Rex Gaskins. Urbana, Ill. – Colorectal cancer is expected to claim more than 52,000 American lives in 2022, and if this year is like most others, Black Americans will bear the brunt of the disease. To understand the disparity in context,...
Jan 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Rohit Bhargava. Urbana, Ill. – The Fighting Illini are also fighting cancer by supporting and promoting awareness of the Cancer Center at Illinois, a research unit and a community of experts in cancer biology and technology that seeks to address gaps in...
Jan 19, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Bo Wang. Urbana, Ill. – Bo Wang, assistant professor of comparative biosciences, is bringing his expertise in lipid metabolism to the Cancer Center at Illinois. Wang specializes in liver and colorectal cancers, which are both highly related to lipid...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Saurabh Sinha. Urbana, Ill. – In bioinformatics, machine learning (ML) tools are used to solve problems in molecular biology and genetics. In healthy cells, genes — the carriers of hereditary information — are switched “on” or “off” to carry out specific...
Jul 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, Carle oncologist and surgeon Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers, in collaboration with clinicians at Carle Foundation Hospital, are working together to improve colorectal cancer screening...
Apr 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – When Taher Saif, professor of mechanical science and engineering, joined Illinois over two decades ago, he thought he would use his skills to help people – by improving their vehicles and cell phones – but just a few years later, he realized his...
Apr 6, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Georgina Cheng (front) and Rohit Bhargava (back) review cancerous tissue. Urbana, Ill. – Traditionally, someone in a lab will embed tissue in paraffin, pour dye and view it under a microscope to determine if cancer cells are present. However, researchers in...
Mar 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Saurabh Sinha, CCIL member. Urbana, Ill. – Although the development of secondary cancerous growths, called metastasis, is the primary cause of death in most cancers, the cellular changes that drive it are poorly understood. In a new study, published in Genome...
