Jul 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Estrogen receptors, proteins that promote cell growth, are therapeutic targets for endocrine-based breast cancer therapies. These therapies, including aromatase inhibitor treatments, perform well against breast cancer cells with normal, “wild type”...
Jul 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers on the study include, from front left, research scientist Chengjian Mao and graduate students Matthew Boudreau, Darjan Duraki and Ji Eun Kim. In the back row, from left, are molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson, chemistry...
Jul 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, member of the Cancer Center at Illinois and Cancer Research Advocacy Group, attributes her passion for cancer research to the serendipity in the science. Madak-Erdogan’s interest in researching cancer began during high-school, when the first...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Announcement originally from School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named Erik Nelson, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, the 2020-2021 Gunsalus Scholar. Nelson was recognized for his...
Dec 21, 2017 | Cancer Center News
Pictured: Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, food science and human nutrition assistant professor CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Treating ovariectomized mice with a combination of conjugated estrogens and the drug bazedoxifene triggers the expression of genes that improve metabolism and...
