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...
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...
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...
May 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Jodi Flaws, Professor of Comparative Biosciences, recently published a paper in Toxicological Sciences reviewing the research linking dozens of environmental chemicals to changes in the gut microbiome and associated health challenges. “Chemicals such as...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Announcement originally from School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named Erik Nelson, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, the 2020-2021 Gunsalus Scholar. Nelson was recognized for his...
Jan 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Stephen Boppart, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, is using the Biophotonics Imaging Lab at the Beckman Institute to develop a system to better visualize breast cancer cells and extracellular vesicles. “We can acquire information about the structure and metabolism...
