Dec 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hyunjoon (Joon) Kong. Urbana, Ill. – Hyunjoon (Joon) Kong, Cancer Center at Illinois researcher and a leader in research on multi-cellular engineered living cell systems, has been named the Robert W. Schaefer Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular...
Dec 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hua Wang. Urbana, Ill. – Funded by the Faculty Early Career Development Program, CCIL researcher and assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Hua Wang, was recognized as a promising academic. Wang will receive a five-year, $700,000 award...
Dec 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of You Jin Song. Urbana, Ill. – You Jin Song, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Kannanganattu Prasanth’s lab, is studying the effects of MALAT1, a long-noncoding RNA that is believed to play an important role in many...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Ashlie Santaliz Casiano. Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce the recipient of the Fall 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Ashlie Santaliz Casiano, graduate student in the Division of Nutritional...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – Ronald Filler’s (LAS ’70) philanthropic and mentoring spirit, known on campus as the “Filler Effect”, has touched down again at the Cancer Center at Illinois – providing an annual scholarship to an undergraduate student in...
Dec 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory at the University of Illinois focuses on chemical imaging to improve our understanding of the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. Led by the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and founder...
Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce that Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, associate professor of food science and health nutrition (FSHN), has been appointed a CCIL Program Leader. Focusing on education, she will join...
Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Elizabeth Salerno. Urbana, Ill. – Elizabeth Salerno, a former Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR) student, is continuing her cancer research as an assistant professor of surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, St....
