Cancer

In a new study described in the journal Oncogene, Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and his team reveal how a key player in cell growth, immunity and the inflammatory response can be transformed into a primary contributor to tumor growth.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Biochemistry at the College of Medicine Lin-Feng Chen is corresponding author on a new study on RUNX3, a tumor suppressor in breast cancer.

A new study led by Professor of Microbiology Stephen Blanke, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show how a bacterial toxin can disrupt a cell's mitochondria – its energy-generation and distribution system – to disable the cell and spur apoptosis (programmed cell...

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Kannanganattu Prasanth has been awarded a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society.

Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Benita Katzenellenbogen is among three University of Illinois faculty funded by a new grant.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and colleagues have discovered a mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, the only known cancer-causing bacterium, disables a tumor suppressor protein in host cells.

Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Benita Katzenellebogen contributed to a study led by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center that pinpointed a set of biological mechanisms through which estrogen confers its beneficial effects on...

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Ann Nardulli visited Capitol Hill, along with other members of the Endocrine Society, as part of an envoy to present the 2009 Endocrine Society Congressional Leadership Award, and to advocate for increased funding for biomedical research.

Microbiology professor Steven Blanke has found that a factor produced by the bacterium H. pylori directly activates an enzyme in host cells that has been associated with several types of cancer, including gastric cancer.

Swanlund Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Molecular and Integrative Physiology Benita Katzenellenbogen has received the 2009 Susan G. Komen for the Cure Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction for her work investigating breast cancer treatments.