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...
Jul 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members and campus researchers are encouraged to attend the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) lab’s online webinar on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. to learn more about the NanoString nCounter SPRINT Profiler, a shared resource for campus users available starting in...
Jul 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, member of the Cancer Center at Illinois and Cancer Research Advocacy Group, attributes her passion for cancer research to the serendipity in the science. Madak-Erdogan’s interest in researching cancer began during high-school, when the first...
Jul 17, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Breast cancer patients are 60 percent more likely to die of cancer after surviving a heart attack, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers reported that heart attacks, by blocking blood flow through arteries, trigger a specific, pro-cancer...
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...
Jul 16, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Brendan Harley, CCIL Research Program Leader and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is studying glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. In collaboration with other researchers, Harley’s lab is developing platforms to help scientists...
Jul 14, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members are working to combat COVID-19 with many new research projects funded through the Jump ARCHES research and development program in partnership with OSF HealthCare and The Grainger College of Engineering. CCIL members Rashid Bashir, Brian Cunningham, Joseph...
Jul 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Cathy Murphy, Cancer Center at Illinois member, professor, and Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, is making history as the first female Head of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Murphy has been an Illini since the 1980’s, during...
Jul 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Read the full SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell Charge Letter CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will provide free on-campus COVID-19 walk-up testing to all faculty members, staff and students beginning this week. News media interested in...
Jul 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
ELISABETH MARTIN JUNIOR UNDERGRADUATE, BIOENGINEERING CANCER SCHOLARS PROGRAM HOW DID YOUR EDUCATIONAL PATH LEAD YOU TO CANCER RESEARCH? I am studying Bioengineering with a track in Imaging and Sensing. I plan to minor in Spanish and Electrical Engineering. I chose to...
Jul 2, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Brian Cunningham, CCIL Research Program Leader, is developing new technology to detect molecules and viruses from bodily fluids. The goal is to use light energy from optical emitters and a photonic crystal surface to bridge the gap between “macro” and “nano” worlds....
