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...
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...
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. –...
Sep 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Benita Katzenellenbogen (left) and John Katzenellenbogen (left). Urbana, Ill. – CCIL members Benita Katzenellenbogen, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of chemistry, collaborated with researchers at Scripps...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Oct 12, 2017 | Cancer Center News
Pictured, from left: Postdoctoral researcher Amy Baek, professor Erik Nelson, and breast cancer survivor Sarah Adams. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — High cholesterol levels have been associated with breast cancer spreading to other sites in the body, but doctors and researchers...
