Feb 27, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Paul J. Hergenrother, the Kenneth L. Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director effective March 1, 2020. Paul currently co-leads the CCIL research...
Feb 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Article originally from Grainger College of Engineering. Illinois students and alumni have banded together to bicycle across the country raising money and awareness for cancer research. This year, the Illini 4000 will begin in New York City on May 22nd and end in San...
Feb 15, 2020 | Cancer Center News
By adding infrared capability to the ubiquitous, standard optical microscope, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hope to bring cancer diagnosis into the digital era. Pairing infrared measurements with high-resolution optical images and...
Feb 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Announcement originally from Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab. Brian Cunningham, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, and CCIL Program 1 co-leader, is expanding the Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory’s efforts into new directions,...
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Two grants will fund interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, including a look at how neurons and muscle cells communicate with each other and also to develop a drug delivery system for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease....
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Chan group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has recently developed a probe named CoxFluor, which is able to distinguish between Cyclooxygenase-2, an enzyme that plays a major role in driving the progression of cancer, and...
Feb 2, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Andrew Smith, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, has recently led and published a study in which his team developed a novel type of quantum dots (QDs) with short-wave infrared (SWIR) emission. The SWIR-QDs are used for imaging single molecules in tissue and offer...
