Jun 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
New research led by a Carle Illinois College of Medicine student suggests sampling the genetic makeup of tumors in the liver could help identify the most effective cancer-fighting strategy. The studies focus on identifying genetic markers that could point the way to...
Jun 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The growing Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) administration welcomes Ron Payne as the Assistant Director for Program Operations. In this role, Ron will work with CCIL researchers and program leaders to strategically advance and grow CCIL programs. With over 35 years...
May 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Mohammed El-Kebir is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in computational biology, and his lab has made major advances in...
Feb 15, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Electrical and computer engineering professor Kiruba Haran, left, and mechanical science and engineering professor Taher Saif are newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering. Image by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two University of Illinois...
Jan 25, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Jun Song, Founder Professor in Physics Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Jun Song received a $319,585 award in January as part of his multi-year R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his project...
Nov 1, 2023 | Cancer Center News
(From left) Brendan Harley, Rex Gaskins, Andrew Steelman, and Payton Haak studied the role of the mitochondrial protein CHCHD2 in glioblastoma Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor that affects adults and, unfortunately, still remains incurable. In a new...
Sep 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Principal investigators Martin Gruebele (left) and Zan Luthey-Schulten (Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s...
Sep 14, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology hosted the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) Open House on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. The TEP Shared Resource is the largest space dedicated to cancer research on...
Sep 7, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Quantum dots linking to a photonic crystal surface during detection of microRNA biomarkers. Urbana, Ill. – Despite recent years’ dramatic improvements in cancer treatment, cancer remains second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death for Americans. But a...
Jul 6, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The research team included Yo-Chuen Lin (bottom left) and Dazhen Liu (bottom right), along with Professors Supriya Prasanth (above) and KV Prasanth. Urbana, Ill. – Initiation of DNA duplication requires a six-subunit complex, the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) that...
Jun 23, 2022 | Cancer Center News
MYC promotes POLR3G gene expression, shaping Pol III identity and downstream transcription activities associated with cell proliferation. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University School of Medicine have...
May 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Van Bortle Lab members. From left to right: Sihang Zhou, Ruiying Cheng, Rajendra K C, and Kevin Van Bortle. Urbana, Ill. – Kevin Van Bortle has been interested in chromatin and transcription dynamics since the start of his research career as a graduate...
