Apr 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2022, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Jefferson Chan. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers...
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...
Mar 2, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Ling-Jian Meng. Urbana, Ill. – Radiopharmaceutical therapy is an emerging type of radiation therapy with great potential for patients with metastatic cancer, who have diminished prospects for long-term survival. This treatment uses alpha-particles...
Jan 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of Bashar Emon Bashar Emon, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, is using the funding from his Cancer Center at Illinois Graduate Cancer Scholarship Program to focus on characterizing matrix remodeling in the cancer microenvironment. The rigidity of the cancer...
Dec 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of You Jin Song. Urbana, Ill. – You Jin Song, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Kannanganattu Prasanth’s lab, is studying the effects of MALAT1, a long-noncoding RNA that is believed to play an important role in many...
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...
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...
May 26, 2021 | Cancer Center News
From left to right: Ratnakar Singh, Michael Spinella, and Zeeshan Fazal Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois scientist, Michael Spinella, has linked the epigenetic changes in testicular germ cell tumors to their cause and cure, opening new avenues of treatment for...
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 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu was awarded a $250K CCIL Seed Grant in support of his research of the characterization of oncogenic noncoding RNAs in breast cancer progression and metastasis. A year...
Oct 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate in the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Boudreau’s research has centered around a novel...
Sep 28, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Erik Nelson, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Illinois graduate student, Liqian Ma, recently discovered that a cholesterol metabolite hijacks immune cells to derail the body’s natural defense...
