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Erik Nelson Receives a 2025 Laureate Award from The Endocrine Society

Erik Nelson Receives a 2025 Laureate Award from The Endocrine Society

Aug 27, 2024 | Cancer Center News

The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2025 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field. Among those receiving honors are University of Illinois professors Lori Raetzman and Erik Nelson of...
CCIL expert researchers boost activity of potential therapeutic target in triple-negative breast cancer

CCIL expert researchers boost activity of potential therapeutic target in triple-negative breast cancer

Dec 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News

John Katzenellenbogen, left, Benita Katzenellenbogen and their colleagues found that stimulating estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast cancers. The...
Cancer Center at Illinois team finds treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

Cancer Center at Illinois team finds treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

Mar 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Image of Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – A new study by Cancer Center at Illinois Education Program Leader, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and her team, have found a new mechanism of endocrine resistance in breast cancers metastasized to the liver. The study, published in...
Postmenopausal women may benefit from estrogen compound research

Postmenopausal women may benefit from estrogen compound research

Oct 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News

(L to R): University of Illinois researchers John Katzenellenbogen, Benita Katzenellenbogen, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, and Sung Hoon Kim showed pathway preferential estrogens may be a safer alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Photo by Seth Turner URBANA, Ill. –...
Cholesterol Metabolite Induces Production of Cancer-Promoting Vesicles

Cholesterol Metabolite Induces Production of Cancer-Promoting Vesicles

Jun 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Erik Nelson Urbana, Ill. – Scientists working to understand the cellular processes linking high cholesterol to breast cancer recurrence and metastasis report that a byproduct of cholesterol metabolism causes some cells to send out cancer-promoting signals to other...
Scientists and Cancer Survivors Collaborate and Lead Cancer Research Advocacy

Scientists and Cancer Survivors Collaborate and Lead Cancer Research Advocacy

Jun 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News

This article originally appeared in Strategies Oncology Magazine.  The Cancer Center at Illinois began in 2011 as the Cancer Community led by current Director, Rohit Bhargava Ph.D., and a group of over 50 University of Illinois faculty. The initial members started to...
CCIL Researcher Named Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine Society Journal

CCIL Researcher Named Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine Society Journal

Jun 3, 2021 | Cancer Center News

The Endocrine Society has named Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Ill.,  as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Endocrine Society (JES).  Ashley Grossman M.D., F.R.C.P., of Barts and the London School of Medicine...
The Cancer Center at Illinois Appoints World-Renowned Cancer Scientist to Senior Advisor Position

The Cancer Center at Illinois Appoints World-Renowned Cancer Scientist to Senior Advisor Position

Jun 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News

Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been appointed Senior Advisor to the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), Rohit Bhargava. “Benita’s extensive knowledge...

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