May 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, published new research in Materials Today Bio demonstrating the development of a novel technology to prevent post-surgical recurrence of breast cancer, especially...
Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Hua Wang and Ph.D. student Rimsha Bhatta Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang published new research with promising developments for the future of personalized cancer therapeutics. In a Nature Communications...
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...
Sep 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Principal investigators Martin Gruebele (left) and Zan Luthey-Schulten (Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s...
Sep 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Joonsu Han and Hua Wang Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang and his research group are passionate about developing novel – but simple – solutions to not only improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies, but...
Aug 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL researchers Bo Yang and Hua Wang Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers have demonstrated a novel two-step strategy to label and eradicate cancer stem-like cells (CSC) to improve cancer treatment prognosis. CSCs are small sub-populations of cancer cells...
Jun 15, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois Program Leader Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Research Assistant Ayca Nazli Mogol Illinois researchers have identified a metabolic pathway inhibitor with reduced toxicity and improved efficacy of therapeutic regimens and outcomes for metastatic...
May 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Cannabis has long been used to alleviate pain, reduce anxiety, and treat inflammation, with the earliest records dating back to 2737 B.C. in China. Today, many cancer patients use cannabis to treat pain and chemotherapy-related symptoms such as nausea,...
Mar 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – A new study by Cancer Center at Illinois Education Program Leader, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and her team, have found a new mechanism of endocrine resistance in breast cancers metastasized to the liver. The study, published in...
Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce that Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, associate professor of food science and health nutrition (FSHN), has been appointed a CCIL Program Leader. Focusing on education, she will join...
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...
Jun 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Erik Nelson Urbana, Ill. – Scientists working to understand the cellular processes linking high cholesterol to breast cancer recurrence and metastasis report that a byproduct of cholesterol metabolism causes some cells to send out cancer-promoting signals to other...
