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...
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...
Jan 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of Bashar Emon Bashar Emon, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, is using the funding from his Cancer Center at Illinois Graduate Cancer Scholarship Program to focus on characterizing matrix remodeling in the cancer microenvironment. The rigidity of the cancer...
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...