Cancer Center at Illinois

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Racial disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and survival rates may have more to do with women’s living environments than their races, suggests a new meta-analysis of recent research on the topic by graduate student Brandi Patrice Smith, left, and professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, both in the department of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois. CREDIT L. BRIAN STAUFFER/UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
For Black Women With Breast Cancer, Segregation And Other Factors Linked To Worse Outcomes
Professor Taher Saif is the first Koiter Medal Winner from Illinois
Saif first Koiter Medal winner from Illinois
This is a photonic Resonator Outcoupler Microscopy (PROM) image that highlights focal adhesions of live dental stem cells. Yue Zhuo/Brian Cunningham
PROM microscopy analyses cellular focal adhesion dynamics
THIS SUGAR 3-D PRINTER COULD ENABLE SCIENTISTS TO PRINT HUMAN ORGANS
THIS SUGAR 3-D PRINTER COULD ENABLE SCIENTISTS TO PRINT HUMAN ORGANS
Illinois professor Andrew Smith, right, and graduate student Mohammad Zahid developed a technique to track molecules that deliver drugs and genes to cells. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
New technique can track drug and gene delivery to cells
Illinois mechanical sciences and engineering professor Ning Wang, left, graduate students Erfan Mohagheghian and Gaurav Chaudhary, and postdoctoral researchers Junwei Chen and Jian Sun are measuring mechanical forces within cells to help unlock some of the mysteries of embryonic development and cancer. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
Elastic microspheres expand understanding of embryonic development and cancer cells

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At the Cancer Center at Illinois, we’re advancing knowledge in science, technology, and engineering to develop game-changing interventions. The result? Innovation in cancer detection, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and quality of life. Together, we can be stronger than cancer. 

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Rohit Bhargava is a pioneer in the field of digital molecular biology and a founding director of the Cancer Center of Illinois. The Center is a University-wide effort dedicated to advancing cancer-related research and scholarship at Illinois. The initiative takes a unique approach to oncology across the lifespan and the first such national center combining high quality engineering with the field of oncology
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Why Cancer Needs Engineering

Cancer. The word can evoke fear in anyone, and its diagnosis can come like a thief in the night. The good news is that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a critical mass of researchers—both in natural sciences and engineering—committed to leading the way in finding next generation solutions to cancer and other medical challenges.

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