Jan 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan, left, and chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother. The U. of I. team found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers. The animal studies set the...
Nov 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, bright fluorescent cyanine dyes have been used in a variety of medical procedures, like identifying the sentinel lymph nodes where cancer cells might spread or identifying cancerous tumors in fluorescence-guided surgery. Though widely...
Dec 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of You Jin Song. Urbana, Ill. – You Jin Song, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Kannanganattu Prasanth’s lab, is studying the effects of MALAT1, a long-noncoding RNA that is believed to play an important role in many...
Oct 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News
An artistic representation of gold nanoparticles on a photonic crystal surface. Created by Janet Kirker. Urbana, Ill. – For several years the Cunningham group has been developing microscopes that use photonic crystal biosensors—nanostructured glass surfaces that...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Mohammed El-Kebir. Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence is often employed in the field of cancer genomics, where bits of DNA sequencing data must be identified and further analyzed with statistical, evolutional, and probabilistic models. “Off-the-shelf”...
Aug 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – When Auinash Kalsotra, associate professor and the William C. Rose Scholar of biochemistry, attended college at Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he knew he wanted to pursue an entrepreneurial career inspired by his family members....
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...
May 26, 2021 | Cancer Center News
From left to right: Ratnakar Singh, Michael Spinella, and Zeeshan Fazal Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois scientist, Michael Spinella, has linked the epigenetic changes in testicular germ cell tumors to their cause and cure, opening new avenues of treatment for...
Apr 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hee-Sun Han, Assistant Professor and Mark A. Pytosh Scholar Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry, is using her expertise in optics, chemistry, and computational biology to tackle cancer. Han...
Mar 25, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Light is most commonly employed in cancer research via imaging tools to diagnose, treat, and otherwise inform physicians and researchers. However, CCIL member Kai Zhang and his lab are exploring the use of light for optogenetics, an interdisciplinary...
Mar 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu was awarded a $250K CCIL Seed Grant in support of his research of the characterization of oncogenic noncoding RNAs in breast cancer progression and metastasis. A year...
Nov 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
ILLINOIS — A desire to improve the status of cancer patient treatments led former theoretical physicist, Jun Song (PhD), to pivot his career towards cancer research. He spent several years learning about cancer biology and retraining to apply his background in...