May 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Much like a criminal profiler tracking a suspect, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Chitra Subramanian is tracking lipids in her quest to discover new tools for diagnosing and treating cancers that start in the head and neck. The research uses two powerful tools...
Aug 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Sara Pedron Haba, Edward Roy, Chitra Subramanian, and Bo Wang The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) supports the most innovative ideas from Illinois faculty through grant programs that catalyze transdisciplinary cancer...
Aug 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head or neck were 93% less likely to die of any cause during the first three years after diagnosis if they ate a healthy diet high in nutrients found to deter chronic disease, researchers found in a recent study. The eating...
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...
Feb 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
In 2019, Hua Li, research associate professor of bioengineering, was awarded more than $2M from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) shortly after joining the University of Illinois. Since receiving the NCI funds, Li, also a clinical medical physicist at Carle...
Jan 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
When Kim Selting, Illinois associate professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was selected for the 2020-2021 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship led by the OpEd Project in August 2020, she was unsure how to marry her personal opinion with evidence-based science....
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...
Apr 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
If you ask any one of Tim Oberg’s family members, friends, or colleagues to describe him, the first word that would pop into their head is, “Illinois.” And not just because he lived in the state, but because of his passion for his alma mater, the University of...
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...
Apr 12, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Anna Arthur, a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois. Consuming high amounts of carbohydrates and various forms of sugar during the year prior to treatment for head and neck cancer may increase patients’ risks of cancer...
