Jun 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Diwakar Shukla Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla is among 84 highly accomplished early-career engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based...
May 4, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Urbana, Ill. – Microorganisms like bacteria make up colonies and clusters that produce metabolites with particular properties, creating a microbiome that impacts human health and disease, including cancer. Yoon Jeong, a recipient of the Cancer Center at Illinois...
Apr 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk Technological advancements over the past few decades have laid the groundwork for the use of microbe-based drugs to treat diseases. Bioengineering professor Shannon Sirk and her lab are engineering human commensal microbes into living therapeutics,...
Mar 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk and the Sirk Research Group. Urbana, Ill. – An Illinois research team is developing a method of producing and delivering monoclonal antibody treatments for breast cancer through commensal microbes in the gut. If successful, this approach could increase...
Mar 29, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Patricia Wolf and H. Rex Gaskins. Urbana, Ill. – Colorectal cancer is expected to claim more than 52,000 American lives in 2022, and if this year is like most others, Black Americans will bear the brunt of the disease. To understand the disparity in context,...
Nov 3, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – On Sept. 17, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and the Microbial Systems Initiative (MSI) held the Cancer and Microbes Workshop as part of a new partnership formed between the CCIL and the MSI to promote collaboration at the interface of...
Oct 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Shannon Sirk. Urbana, Ill. – Therapeutic antibodies have revolutionized the treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, these drugs can be prohibitively expensive and are not an option for every patient. Shannon Sirk, Cancer Center at Illinois...
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...