Apr 29, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Rohit Bhargava, the Phillip and Ann Sharp Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois, was recently honored by Illinois Human Resources with the 2025 Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. Bhargava is a professor of bioengineering in The Grainger College of...
Apr 29, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Therapeutic cancer vaccines that train the body’s immune system to recognize and respond to tumor-associated antigens have shown great promise for treating various types of cancer. Now researchers in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang have...
Apr 29, 2026 | Cancer Center News
New research from the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member K.V. Prasanth, in collaboration with scientists across the University of Illinois and other institutions, has revealed that gene positioning near nuclear speckles — key nuclear domains that promote...
Apr 29, 2026 | Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 125 members from across the Illinois campus. Given the great variety in backgrounds, research disciplines, and experiences of our members, we offer our Q&A series “Get to Know a Cancer Researcher” to...
Apr 16, 2026 | Cancer Center News
First designation of its kind in nearly 40 years recognizes the university’s transformative research in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention Today, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) announced it has been designated as a Basic Cancer Center by the...
Apr 14, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Viktor Gruev was recently inducted into the 2026 class of the American Insitute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellows. Gruev is the Wendell and Rita Dunning Faculty Scholar in Electrical and Computer...
Apr 14, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Scientists have long been interested in using red blood cells for drug delivery and imaging. but safely modifying them inside the body has remained a major challenge. Researchers in the Wang Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new...
Apr 13, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Cancer cells can respond very differently to the same chemotherapy treatment, even within the same type of cancer. Because of this, it is difficult to predict which tumors will respond to treatment and which will become resistant. Researchers at the University of...
Apr 8, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang is leading a collaborative research project to develop a technology that will target and tag red blood cells in the human body. Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering, has established a strong laboratory...
Apr 8, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 125 members from across the Illinois campus. Given the great variety in backgrounds, research disciplines, and experiences of our members, we offer our Q&A series “Get to Know a Cancer Researcher” to...
Apr 1, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 120 members from across the Illinois campus. Given the great variety in backgrounds, research disciplines, and experiences of our members, we offer our Q&A series “Get to Know a Cancer Researcher” to...
Apr 1, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Cancer Scholars Program student Patrick Selby, an outstanding sophomore, earned the John C. and Elizabeth J. Chato Award in Bioengineering. This award is for undergraduate students involved in activities related to bioengineering. Selby is double majoring in...