Apr 3, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan will lead a new “Voices of Cancer” project to address cancer disparities through storytelling, research, and community engagement. The Chancellor’s Office awarded...
Jan 29, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan is teaming up with National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) research scientist Aiman Soliman, the NCSA’s Health Innovation Program Office (HIPO), and the University of Illinois Chicago...
Aug 13, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is further reinforcing its commitment to progress for all with an expanded leadership. Professor Ruby Mendenhall, a leading scholar of the University of Illinois and a CCIL JumpStart awardee, has been named Associate Director for...
Jun 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A study led by Cancer Center at Illinois member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan shows as potential link to aggressive lung cancer tumors and neighborhood violence, perhaps shedding new light on the impact stress has on the body. Madak-Erdogan recently spoke with CBS News Chicago...
Jun 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Scientists have identified a potential driver of aggressive lung cancer tumors in patients who live in areas with high levels of violent crime. Their study found that stress responses differ between those living in neighborhoods with higher and lower levels of violent...
Apr 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) provided an opportunity for students to share their research during its annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Beckman Institute. Students in CCIL programs or working in CCIL member labs presented posters on topics...
Jan 22, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Cindy Mu is a junior at Illinois, double majoring in chemistry and molecular & cellular Biology During her junior year at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), Cindy Mu traveled from Aurora, Illinois to Northwestern University every Wednesday to...
Sep 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher and Director of Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer) New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with...
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,...
Jan 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Rohit Bhargava. Urbana, Ill. – The Fighting Illini are also fighting cancer by supporting and promoting awareness of the Cancer Center at Illinois, a research unit and a community of experts in cancer biology and technology that seeks to address gaps in...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Ashlie Santaliz Casiano. Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce the recipient of the Fall 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Ashlie Santaliz Casiano, graduate student in the Division of Nutritional...
Jul 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Fisk undergraduate students (L-R) Skye Faucher, Jaia Holleman, and Leiana-Lavette Woodard participated in summer training workshops at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program. ...
