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...
Apr 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise provides multiple benefits for cardiac and pulmonary health, but this type of movement may not be an option for some patient populations. Cancer Center at Illinois scientist Neha Gothe is exploring the benefits of...
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...
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...
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...
Jan 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Interview originally from Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. CCIL Member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, assistant professor of food and science and human nutrition, is the leader of the Women’s Health and Nutrition Lab, where she is currently focusing on...
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...
