May 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Much like a criminal profiler tracking a suspect, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Chitra Subramanian is tracking lipids in her quest to discover new tools for diagnosing and treating cancers that start in the head and neck. The research uses two powerful tools...
May 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, published new research in Materials Today Bio demonstrating the development of a novel technology to prevent post-surgical recurrence of breast cancer, especially...
Apr 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A world-renowned surgical oncologist has joined the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) to develop patient-centered solutions through collaborative research. Dr. Claudius Conrad specializes in liver, pancreas, and biliary tract cancers and has helped develop new surgical...
Mar 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A new monthly segment on WCIA will feature the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and provide an opportunity for CCIL scientists to share research developments that will help cancer patients worldwide. Director Rohit Bhargava appeared in the first installment to talk...
Mar 27, 2024 | Cancer Center News
On her first day of fourth grade, Myra Kamdar marched directly to her new teacher, skipped introductions, and confidently proclaimed she was going to be a doctor one day. Reminiscing on this moment, which her teacher still won’t let her live down today, Myra can’t...
Jan 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team, from left, Kim Selting, Sara Pedron-Haba, and Catherine Best-Popescu, are recipients of grants from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation A $25,000 grant from the 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,...
Nov 9, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Blake Plotner is a junior majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology Blake Plotner can remember his excitement about science from an early age. With his mother working as a nurse, biology quickly became an interest. Despite growing up in landlocked Illinois, young...
Jun 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Members of the Cancer Research Advocacy Group (CRAG) at the Survivor Summit Audience members participate in roundtable discussions Dr. Neil Iyengar, CCIL member Erik Nelson, Dr. Noel Arring Dozens of cancer survivors, caregivers, advocates, and researchers connected...
Apr 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Representatives from the Cancer Center at Illinois, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and OSF HealthCare gather at the BEAT Cancer Research Initiative kickoff. On March 30, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and OSF HealthCare System held a kickoff reception at...
Jan 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan, left, and chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother. The U. of I. team found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers. The animal studies set the...
Nov 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Just as species evolve through mutation and selection acting on individuals in a population, cancer cells and tumors evolve by mutation and selection acting on cells within the tumor. Normal cells divide and mutate over time into subpopulations of...
