Yang Liu

Yang Liu

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science Theme: Cancer Imaging Research Focus A professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Yang Liu investigates the future of precision medicine through cutting-edge multiscale optical microscopy,...
Supriya Prasanth

Supriya Prasanth

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology Research Focus Supriya Prasanth’s laboratory is focused on understanding how replication initiation is coordinated with chromatin...
Michael Oelze

Michael Oelze

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science Theme: Cancer Imaging Research Focus Michael Oelze’s research utilizes ultrasound technology for improving cancer diagnosis and monitoring of cancer therapy to detect early response and...
Erik Nelson

Erik Nelson

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology Research Focus Erik Nelson is a trained endocrinologist with specific expertise in nuclear receptor pharmacology. He has made significant...
Michael Spinella

Michael Spinella

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Anticancer Chemistry Research Focus Michael Spinella’s laboratory is focused on the molecular genetics of cancer, especially in the areas of mechanisms of tumorigenesis, cancer...
Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Comparative and Engineered Oncology Models Research Focus Rebecca Smith is an epidemiologist with an interest in co-morbidities. Smith has extensive training in statistics, with a...
Catherine Murphy

Catherine Murphy

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science Theme: Molecular Measurement Research Focus Professor Murphy received two BS degrees, one in chemistry and one in biochemistry, from the University of Illinois in 1986. From 1990-1993, she was...
Olgica Milenkovic

Olgica Milenkovic

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science Theme: Computational Engineering and Data Science Research Focus Olgica Milenkovic, PhD, is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign...
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology Research Focus Zeynep Madak-Erdogan improves the quality of life for postmenopausal women and breast cancer survivors by understanding how diet...
David Kranz

David Kranz

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Anticancer Chemistry Research Focus David Kranz’s lab been involved for many years in the discovery of immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer. The research program he leads is...
William Helferich

William Helferich

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology Research Focus William Helferich investigates diet-correlated breast cancer growth and progression with a specific interest in botanical estrogens...
Viktor Gruev

Viktor Gruev

Research Program and Theme Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science Theme: Cancer Imaging Research Focus Viktor Gruev’s lab focuses on borrowing critical concepts from nature to develop ultra-sensitive, compact, lightweight, and conformal imaging sensors capable of...