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 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...
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...
Nov 13, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Animal Sciences Department Head Rod Johnson, Keith W. and Sara M. Kelley Endowed Professor of Immunophysiology H. Rex Gaskins, Dean of the College of ACES Kim Kidwell, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs William Bernhard. H. Rex Gaskins, CCIL’s Associate...
