Feb 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois program leader Brian Cunningham is joined by research project members, from the left, Xiaojing Wang and Skye Shepherd, who were co-first authors on the teams’ recently published research. Team members not pictured include: Nantao Li,...
Sep 7, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Quantum dots linking to a photonic crystal surface during detection of microRNA biomarkers. Urbana, Ill. – Despite recent years’ dramatic improvements in cancer treatment, cancer remains second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death for Americans. But a...
Nov 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
A new study in mice suggests that consuming a high-fat diet in combination with exposure to PFAS triggers changes in benign and malignant prostate cells that promote rapid tumor growth. Food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, center, led the...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate cancer, using single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs, which refer to mutations in a person’s...
Jun 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Many men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime, but most of these cancers are low-grade and non-aggressive. Current diagnostics, such as the serum test and physical exam, work well for detection, but don’t accurately identify the stage or grade of the...
May 20, 2020 | Cancer Center News
John Erdman, Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Human Nutrition, recently published a study in the Journal of Nutrition. The study found that dietary tomato treatments after castration did not reduce cancer incidence in a murine model. The American Cancer Society...
Apr 15, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Catherine Applegate, PhD candidate in Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN), researches the effects of diet and obesity on prostate cancer. During the last year of her degree, Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer – but she was determined not to let the disease...
Mar 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Story originally from Bioengineering. Andrew Smith, associate professor of Bioengineering, is leading a team at Illinois collaborating with the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. The study tags and identifies individual molecules as they pass through a flow cytometer using...
Dec 19, 2019 | Cancer Center News
From left: postdoctoral researcher Taylor Canady, professor Andrew Smith, graduate student Nantao Li, postdoctoral researcher Lucas Smith and professor Brian Cunningham. Brian Cunningham, CCIL Program Leader and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and...
Feb 19, 2019 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Catherine ApplegateTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program To many Americans, tomatoes may not be much more than a household fruit. But to Catherine Applegate, they can play a vital role for a person’s health. According to many studies, tomatoes, especially processed...
Mar 28, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Andrew Smith. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers recently received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new assay technology that could determine the effectiveness of cancer drug treatments and aid...
Mar 17, 2018 | Cancer Center News
This award is presented for outstanding, novel, and significant chemistry research, which has led to important contributions to the fields of basic cancer research, translational cancer research, cancer diagnosis, the prevention of cancer, or the treatment of patients...
