Nov 20, 2024 | Cancer Center News
For years, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Bill King, professor and Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair in the Departments of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, has believed that there...
Nov 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
In a newly established collaboration between the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute (OSF) in Peoria, IL and the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), five project proposals were selected to receive funding through the Breakthrough and Advanced Treatment of (BEAT) Cancer...
Nov 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomes their newest research member Diana Ranoa, who recently began a new Illinois faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Molecular & Cell Biology. Ranoa grew up in the Philippines, which...
Nov 13, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: membership More than a career, cancer research is a calling, and the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is home to over 100 engineers and scientists who are answering this call. Becoming a CCIL member means joining a team dedicated to one...
Nov 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, metastatic breast cancer The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Seed Grant program awarded a promising study of breast cancer metastasis led by Ashok Samuel, a CCIL member and a faculty member in the Department of...
Nov 6, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The first step of the scientific method is also the most important: observation. Yet this can often be deceptively difficult. In no field is this truer than biology, where one must be able to observe the actions of any given cell in a vast population. Scientists...
Nov 6, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Read time: 3 minutesKeywords: cancer survivor, cancer researcher, bioengineering Catherine Applegate is a postdoctoral researcher at the Beckman Institute and a graduate of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) Training Program. She...
