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Illinois student utilizing nanoparticles for better cancer imaging, treatment

Illinois student utilizing nanoparticles for better cancer imaging, treatment

Feb 22, 2022 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program

Image of Opeyemi Arogundade. Urbana, Ill. – Opeyemi Arogundade, Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) program trainee and student in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist, Andrew Smith’s, lab, is applying his academic background in physics to cancer research and...
Study identifies key regulator of cell differentiation

Study identifies key regulator of cell differentiation

Feb 22, 2022 | Cancer Center News

The research team included, from left, undergraduate student Darya Asoudegi; graduate students Neha Chetlangia and Fredy Kurniawan; and Supriya Prasanth, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the U. of I. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer.  Embryonic stem cells...
Advanced imaging, AI distinguish healthy from injured cells

Advanced imaging, AI distinguish healthy from injured cells

Feb 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Left to right: Gabriel Popescu, Mark A. Anastasio, Chenfei Hu Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live-cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can indicate whether a cancer...
Freeman brings molecular chaperone expertise to Cancer Center at Illinois

Freeman brings molecular chaperone expertise to Cancer Center at Illinois

Feb 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Image of Brian Freeman. Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois scientist and professor of cell and developmental biology, Brian Freeman, has focused his research on the study of molecular chaperones (MCs) since the beginning of his career as a graduate student when...
‘Molecular Velcro’ enables tissues to sense, react to mechanical force

‘Molecular Velcro’ enables tissues to sense, react to mechanical force

Feb 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News

University of Illinois professor Deborah Leckband led a study that revealed how Velcro-like cellular proteins called cadherins sense tissue mechanics to regulate cell communication and biological tissue growth. Photo courtesy of Claire Benjamin. Urbana, Ill. – The...
Illinois Innovators Podcast: Cancer and Engineering with Rohit Bhargava

Illinois Innovators Podcast: Cancer and Engineering with Rohit Bhargava

Feb 7, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Image of Rohit Bhargava in lab. Illinois Innovators Podcast: Cancer and Engineering with Rohit Bhargava Click here to listen Urbana, Ill. – In March 2005, Professor Rohit Bhargava was the first external hire to join the Department of Bioengineering as it launched. Now...
CCIL scientist reflects on decades of breast cancer research

CCIL scientist reflects on decades of breast cancer research

Feb 2, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Urbana, Ill. – For decades, Katzenellenbogen has focused on understanding breast cancer and women’s health, collaborating with scientists on campus and around the world to develop better treatments and reduce morbidities from the disease. Her research has provided the...
Acceleration of cancer biomarker detection for point of care diagnostics

Acceleration of cancer biomarker detection for point of care diagnostics

Feb 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Computer rendering of the magnetic activate capture+digital counting approach for accelerated digital biodetection. Urbana, Ill. – The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive...

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