Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Sisi He, PhD Candidate, Molecular and Integrative PhysiologyTiMe 2016 CohortC*STAR 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? Currently I’m working as a scientist at NGM Biopharmaceuticals located at California Bay area. What are you currently researching? I am...
Sep 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Benita Katzenellenbogen (left) and John Katzenellenbogen (left). Urbana, Ill. – CCIL members Benita Katzenellenbogen, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of chemistry, collaborated with researchers at Scripps...
Aug 25, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Urbana, Ill. – Joy Chen, a former Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) student, is attending the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Joint Bioengineering Program this fall, where she hopes to continue...
Aug 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – When Auinash Kalsotra, associate professor and the William C. Rose Scholar of biochemistry, attended college at Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he knew he wanted to pursue an entrepreneurial career inspired by his family members....
May 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A new study, published in JCI insight, looks at how Brd4, a regulator of the innate immune response, influences diet-induced obesity. The researchers believe that Brd4 could be used as a target for obesity and insulin resistance. Approximately one-third...
Dec 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A new computational mass spectrometry imaging method enables researchers to achieve high mass resolution and high spatial resolution for biological samples while providing data sets exponentially faster. Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
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...
Oct 1, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement between the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG and the cancer drug development company Systems Oncology LLC....
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...
Jul 17, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Breast cancer patients are 60 percent more likely to die of cancer after surviving a heart attack, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers reported that heart attacks, by blocking blood flow through arteries, trigger a specific, pro-cancer...
Jun 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been appointed Senior Advisor to the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), Rohit Bhargava. “Benita’s extensive knowledge...
Mar 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Sisi He, PhD Candidate in Molecular and Integrative Physiology, will be defending her thesis, “The Impact of Cholesterol and Its Metabolites on the Ovarian Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Progression” April 6, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. Sisi is a student in...
