Oct 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, DNA repair, cancer therapy, cancer treatment A groundbreaking research project led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Huanyu Qiao, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences, secured a CCIL Seed...
Oct 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 3 minutesKeywords: glioblastoma, tissue engineering, bioengineering, biomaterials Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Sara Pedron Haba and Brendan Harley are making strides in the long march to better targeting and treatment of glioblastoma (GBM). In a...
Oct 22, 2024 | Cancer Center News
As part of the Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) monthly segment at WCIA, CCIL Associate Director for Education Zeynep Madak-Erdogan was featured for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Madak-Erdogan discussed her research, which aims to improve quality of life for breast...
Oct 21, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer researchers don’t always find themselves on the receiving end of a diagnosis, but that was the case for one Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member, now a breast cancer survivor. Veterinary radiation oncologist Kim Selting works with pets who have cancer,...
Oct 21, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers are developing advancements that bring hope to breast cancer survivors worldwide. Our discoveries lay the foundation for monumental changes in how the disease is detected, diagnosed, and treated. This Breast Cancer...
Oct 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Read time: 3 minutesKeywords: immunotherapy, cancer vaccine, CAR T cell therapy, tumor antigens, dendritic cells, mRNA, grant The American Cancer Society (ACS) awarded Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang a Research Scholar Grant to investigate a novel...
Oct 9, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 5 minutesKeywords: digital resolution biosensing, cancer biomarker, antibody detection, dynamic assay, micro RNA, microscopy Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham has developed two new biomarker detection instruments with the...
Oct 7, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Department of Defense today announced awards totaling $43 million to 112 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The grants will support the purchase of major equipment at 64 institutions across 28 states in...
Oct 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins — without having to synthesize them one by one, researchers report in...