Aug 24, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Stephen G. Sligar has spent the last 40 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign applying his expertise in membrane proteins and his nanodisc technology to better understand biological pathways and address diseases including cancer. Urbana, Ill. – Stephen...
Jul 6, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The research team included Yo-Chuen Lin (bottom left) and Dazhen Liu (bottom right), along with Professors Supriya Prasanth (above) and KV Prasanth. Urbana, Ill. – Initiation of DNA duplication requires a six-subunit complex, the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) that...
Jun 23, 2022 | Cancer Center News
MYC promotes POLR3G gene expression, shaping Pol III identity and downstream transcription activities associated with cell proliferation. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University School of Medicine have...
May 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Van Bortle Lab members. From left to right: Sihang Zhou, Ruiying Cheng, Rajendra K C, and Kevin Van Bortle. Urbana, Ill. – Kevin Van Bortle has been interested in chromatin and transcription dynamics since the start of his research career as a graduate...
Feb 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brian Freeman. Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois scientist and professor of cell and developmental biology, Brian Freeman, has focused his research on the study of molecular chaperones (MCs) since the beginning of his career as a graduate student when...
Nov 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hong Jin. Urbana, Ill. – Over the past year, the Hong Jin lab at the University of Illinois has been focusing on a potential oncogene, developmentally-regulated GTP-ase (Drg1), and its function in tumor progression. A recent, critical decision to examine...
Aug 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers developed a method that makes membrane-bound receptors reactive to light, triggering the Wnt pathway, important in embryonic development and cancer. Image courtesy of Kai Zhang. Urbana, Ill. – Blue light is illuminating a new understanding of a...
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....
Jul 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Estrogen receptors, proteins that promote cell growth, are therapeutic targets for endocrine-based breast cancer therapies. These therapies, including aromatase inhibitor treatments, perform well against breast cancer cells with normal, “wild type”...
Jul 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers on the study include, from front left, research scientist Chengjian Mao and graduate students Matthew Boudreau, Darjan Duraki and Ji Eun Kim. In the back row, from left, are molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson, chemistry...
Jul 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Supriya G. Prasanth, professor and head of the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, has been chosen as a University Scholar. The University Scholars Program, established in 1985, aims to...
Jun 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Illinois associate professor in food science and human nutrition. Urbana, Ill. –When a scientist gets the keys to run their first lab, they soon realize that they must also become experts in human resources, networking, and...