Oct 25, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
When Kianoush (Kia) Falahkheirkhah came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the fall of 2016, he wasn’t too sure about America. “Growing up in Tehran, I was familiar with life in a big city surrounded by mountains. But here it was very different in a...
Oct 23, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois bioengineering faculty members are playing key roles in a new joint center for mRNA delivery and cancer immunotherapy (CCIT). This new center is co-lead by Professor Shuming Nie at UIUC and by Professor Youqing Shen at Zhejiang University (ZJU). It involves a...
Oct 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
A research team including bioengineering professors Frank Brooks and Hua Li, computer science professor David Forsyth and Bioengineering Department Head Mark Anastasio has been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project...
Oct 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Congratulations to Professor Catherine Christian-Hinman, who was selected to receive the 2023 University of Virginia School of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences. The award recognizes exceptional research and professional accomplishments,...
Oct 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Rimsha Bhatta, doctoral student in CCIL member Hua Wang’s lab, was featured in a recent Grainger Engineering article that explores the long hours and sleepless nights it takes to pursue meaningful research that will impact future generations. Read the story...
Oct 11, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Zeynep Madak Erdogan, CCIL Associate Director for Translation & Development Tim Fan, Erik Nelson, CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava, Kim Selting, Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk, Cecilia Leal Members of the Cancer Center at Illinois’ inaugural Faculty...
Oct 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Researchers in CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava’s Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory (from left): Andres Orr, Rohit Bhargava, Matthew Confer, Rou-Jing Ho, Yen-Ting Liu, Ishaan Sharma, Kevin Yeh, and Kianoush Falahkheirkhah Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Director...
Oct 9, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Rashid Bashir, the dean of The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rashid Bashir, Cancer Center at Illinois member, dean of The...
Oct 5, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Jeffrey Moore, Susan Martinis, CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava, John Coleman, Philippe Geubelle, and Mark Anastasio Cancer Center at Illinois Director Rohit Bhargava was officially named the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering during an investiture...
