Nov 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, metastatic breast cancer The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Seed Grant program awarded a promising study of breast cancer metastasis led by Ashok Samuel, a CCIL member and a faculty member in the Department of...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In 2018 Qianying Zuo won the Kathryn Van Akken Burns Memorial Fund Merit Award while working in the lab of the CCIL’s Associate Director of Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. As a graduate student in Madak-Erdogan’s...
Feb 7, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan is the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Associate Professor of Food Science & Human Nutrition, and Associate Dean in the Graduate College Cancer Center at...
Nov 21, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers David Shapiro and Paul Hergenrother Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer is the most common form of breast cancer, affecting approximately 75% of breast cancer patients. In advanced and metastatic form, it is lethal,...
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...
Jul 31, 2023 | Cancer Center News
The team included, from left, research scientist Chengjian Mao, graduate student Xinyi Dai, biochemistry professor David Shapiro, graduate student Junyao Zhu and molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson. Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —...
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...
Jun 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Postdoctoral researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and CCIL researcher Viktor Gruev, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led a team of researchers developing new cancer imaging agents that can light up two cancer biomarkers when lit by one fluorescent...
Apr 27, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) hosted its first-ever Undergraduate Research Symposium on Tuesday, April 25, in conjunction with the university’s Undergraduate Research Week. Eighteen students presented posters on a variety of cancer-focused research...
Apr 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researchers Benita Katzenellenbogen and John Katzenellenbogen. Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Benita Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor...
Dec 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
John Katzenellenbogen, left, Benita Katzenellenbogen and their colleagues found that stimulating estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast cancers. The...
Jul 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Timothy Fan and Paul Hergenrother. Urbana, Ill. – Cancers that begin in the brain, or start elsewhere in the body and spread to it, are notoriously difficult to treat. Illinois researchers in Cancer Center at Illinois labs are looking to improve those odds by...
