Jul 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News
It was the early 1980s. At the time, glioblastoma patients survived on average for only 10-11 months. Four decades later, the life expectancy has only marginally improved by a few months. For one team of scientists, these aren’t just statistics but family...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In 2018 Qianying Zuo won the Kathryn Van Akken Burns Memorial Fund Merit Award while working in the lab of the CCIL’s Associate Director of Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. As a graduate student in Madak-Erdogan’s...
Nov 21, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers David Shapiro and Paul Hergenrother Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common form of breast cancer, affecting approximately 75% of breast cancer patients. In advanced and metastatic form, it is lethal,...
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...
Jul 31, 2023 | Cancer Center News
The team included, from left, research scientist Chengjian Mao, graduate student Xinyi Dai, biochemistry professor David Shapiro, graduate student Junyao Zhu and molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson. Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —...
Jun 15, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois Program Leader Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Research Assistant Ayca Nazli Mogol Illinois researchers have identified a metabolic pathway inhibitor with reduced toxicity and improved efficacy of therapeutic regimens and outcomes for metastatic...
Apr 27, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) hosted its first-ever Undergraduate Research Symposium on Tuesday, April 25, in conjunction with the university’s Undergraduate Research Week. Eighteen students presented posters on a variety of cancer-focused research...
Feb 21, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Erik Nelson, professor of molecular and integrative physiology in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, considers this moment “a milestone” in his career. Several...
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...
Feb 2, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, Katzenellenbogen has focused on understanding breast cancer and women’s health, collaborating with scientists on campus and around the world to develop better treatments and reduce morbidities from the disease. Her research has provided the...
Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce that Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, associate professor of food science and health nutrition (FSHN), has been appointed a CCIL Program Leader. Focusing on education, she will join...
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...
