Oct 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, DNA repair, cancer therapy, cancer treatment A groundbreaking research project led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Huanyu Qiao, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences, secured a CCIL Seed...
Oct 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins — without having to synthesize them one by one, researchers report in...
May 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Mohammed El-Kebir is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in computational biology, and his lab has made major advances in...
May 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Students in Champaign participated in hands-on science lessons during the spring semester as part of a collaboration between the Center for Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS) and several university institutes, including the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). The...
May 10, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Biomarkers are small molecules of interest to researchers, because they can indicate underlying diseases, often even before symptoms even appear. However, detecting these markers can be challenging as they are often present in very low quantities, especially in the...
Apr 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A new paper published by a team that includes several Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers demonstrates a link between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and growth of testicular germ cell tumors. PFAS chemicals, sometimes called forever...
Apr 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Testicular cancer is a rare form of one of the world’s most devastating diseases. Most cases respond well to conventional treatments, but a team affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has spent years working on ways to help patients who don’t have that...
Sep 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher and Director of Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer) New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with...
Sep 7, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Quantum dots linking to a photonic crystal surface during detection of microRNA biomarkers. Urbana, Ill. – Despite recent years’ dramatic improvements in cancer treatment, cancer remains second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death for Americans. But a...
Jul 6, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The research team included Yo-Chuen Lin (bottom left) and Dazhen Liu (bottom right), along with Professors Supriya Prasanth (above) and KV Prasanth. Urbana, Ill. – Initiation of DNA duplication requires a six-subunit complex, the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) that...
Jun 23, 2022 | Cancer Center News
MYC promotes POLR3G gene expression, shaping Pol III identity and downstream transcription activities associated with cell proliferation. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University School of Medicine have...
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,...