Mar 16, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brian Cunningham Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois and Mount Sinai researchers have developed a low-cost, portable, point-of-care technology capable of diagnosing early-stage liver cancer within 30 minutes. The study, led by Brian Cunningham, Cancer...
Jan 19, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Bo Wang. Urbana, Ill. – Bo Wang, assistant professor of comparative biosciences, is bringing his expertise in lipid metabolism to the Cancer Center at Illinois. Wang specializes in liver and colorectal cancers, which are both highly related to lipid...
Nov 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
A new study in mice suggests that consuming a high-fat diet in combination with exposure to PFAS triggers changes in benign and malignant prostate cells that promote rapid tumor growth. Food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, center, led the...
Oct 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
(L to R): University of Illinois researchers John Katzenellenbogen, Benita Katzenellenbogen, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, and Sung Hoon Kim showed pathway preferential estrogens may be a safer alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Photo by Seth Turner URBANA, Ill. –...
Oct 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photoacoustic images of mouse livers, comparing a mouse with Wilson’s disease (left) to a healthy mouse (right). A brighter spot indicates higher concentrations of copper (I) ions localized in that region. Urbana, Ill. – Biopsies are one of the most common...
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....
Mar 9, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, Illinois News Bureau CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The liver has a rare superpower among body organs – the ability to regenerate, even if 70% of its mass is removed. It also keeps up its metabolic and toxin-removing work during the process of...
Dec 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval. This testing usually involves lengthy and expensive animal studies. A research team at University of Illinois...
Nov 23, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — The basic principles of biology state that cells are one of the smallest building blocks of every living organism. Everything in your body is made of them. When we get sick or we’re diagnosed with a disease like lung cancer, though we can’t see them,...
Jun 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is supporting three new cancer research projects through its planning grant initiative. Recipients will each receive up to $25,000 to spark innovative research projects that have promise...