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,...
Nov 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
A new study in mice suggests that consuming a high-fat diet in combination with exposure to PFAS triggers changes in benign and malignant prostate cells that promote rapid tumor growth. Food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, center, led the...
Sep 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Sylvia Crowder, PhD, Food Science and Human NutritionCancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR ) 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? I am a T-32 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior at Moffitt Cancer Center in...
May 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Ashlie Santaliz-Casiano, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Tissue Microenvironment Program, 2020 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I grew up in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. I am a product of both in public and private education system on the island. I...
May 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A new study, published in JCI insight, looks at how Brd4, a regulator of the innate immune response, influences diet-induced obesity. The researchers believe that Brd4 could be used as a target for obesity and insulin resistance. Approximately one-third...
Oct 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois is excited to announce the inaugural recipients of the Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Qianying Zuo, an Illinois graduate student in food science and nutrition, and Joy Chen, a bioengineering undergraduate, were awarded...
Oct 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Hi! I’m Catherine, a dietitian and a postdoctoral cancer researcher in the department of Animal Sciences at Illinois. Last year, I was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year, I shared some of my experiences with the...
May 27, 2020 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Sylvia CrowderPhD, Food Science and Human NutritionCancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR ) 2017 Cohort How did you find yourself in cancer research?After I received my Bachelor’s in Dietetics from the University of Southern Indiana and...
May 20, 2020 | Cancer Center News
John Erdman, Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Human Nutrition, recently published a study in the Journal of Nutrition. The study found that dietary tomato treatments after castration did not reduce cancer incidence in a murine model. The American Cancer Society...
Apr 15, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Catherine Applegate, PhD candidate in Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN), researches the effects of diet and obesity on prostate cancer. During the last year of her degree, Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer – but she was determined not to let the disease...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Story originally from Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jongsook Kim Kemper, Professor of Molecular and Integrative physiology, and her colleagues Sangwon Byun (co-first author), Sunmi Seok (co-first author), Young Kim (research scientist), and Peter Yau have published...
Dec 17, 2019 | Cancer Center News
From left, Anna E. Arthur and Sylvia L. Crowder. An Illinois research team including Sylvia Crowder, C«STAR research fellow, and CCIL associate member Anna Arthur, assistant professor of food science and human nutrition, found that patients who eat foods high in...
