Aug 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head or neck were 93% less likely to die of any cause during the first three years after diagnosis if they ate a healthy diet high in nutrients found to deter chronic disease, researchers found in a recent study. The eating...
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...
May 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla has been named among the most influential bioengineering researchers globally by a leading journal in the field: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, which the American Chemical...
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,...
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...
Feb 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
University of Illinois professor Deborah Leckband led a study that revealed how Velcro-like cellular proteins called cadherins sense tissue mechanics to regulate cell communication and biological tissue growth. Photo courtesy of Claire Benjamin. Urbana, Ill. – The...
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...
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...
Aug 31, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Stephen Sligar, a Cancer Center at Illinois researcher and faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected as a Vallee Visiting Professor to pursue collaborative research at the University of Oxford, focusing on protein-protein and...