Aug 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers are responding to the need for personalized medicine for cancer patients by developing a groundbreaking innovation: the Oncopig cancer model. This new platform will improve and accelerate cancer detection and treatment techniques....
Jul 16, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Tim Fan, CCIL Research Program Leader and professor of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, discusses how companion animals can assist researchers in improving cancer treatments. Comparative oncology with pets can expedite human clinical trials and the animal data can better...
Apr 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Timothy M. Fan, Professor of Veterinary Oncology, has been appointed as program leader of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) research program in Cancer Discovery Platforms Across the Engineering-Biology Continuum. Fan will co-lead this research program with Brendan...
Jul 17, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of a mouse. New research from the University of Illinois finds products of omega-3 fatty acid metabolism show anti-cancer properties in mice. Omega-3 fatty acids are important for brain development. When the body metabolizes these fats, it creates a class of...
Nov 27, 2017 | Cancer Center News
Timothy Fan and Paul Hergenrother A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial of patients with anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare malignant brain tumor, and glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive late-stage cancer of the...