Feb 2, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, Katzenellenbogen has focused on understanding breast cancer and women’s health, collaborating with scientists on campus and around the world to develop better treatments and reduce morbidities from the disease. Her research has provided the...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – Ronald Filler’s (LAS ’70) philanthropic and mentoring spirit, known on campus as the “Filler Effect”, has touched down again at the Cancer Center at Illinois – providing an annual scholarship to an undergraduate student in...
Dec 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory at the University of Illinois focuses on chemical imaging to improve our understanding of the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. Led by the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and founder...
May 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, gynecologic oncologist. Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientists conduct basic research, collaborating with physicians at partnered clinics and hospitals to bring their studies from bench to bedside....
Jul 30, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, Carle gynecological oncologist, are taking the first step toward a technological discovery by proving the concept. It’s happening in the controlled environment of the Bhargava lab, where tissue samples from patients...
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...
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...
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...
Dec 21, 2017 | Cancer Center News
Pictured: Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, food science and human nutrition assistant professor CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Treating ovariectomized mice with a combination of conjugated estrogens and the drug bazedoxifene triggers the expression of genes that improve metabolism and...