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 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...
Sep 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In collaboration with the School of Chemical Sciences, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has provided support for significant infrastructure upgrades to the High-throughput Screening Facility (HTSF) which will dramatically expand and accelerate cancer research...
Sep 11, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A generous gift from the Groch family will honor Jonathan Groch’s legacy and provide a scholarship to support a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student with financial need from the Chicago area. The Jonathan P. Groch Cancer Center at Illinois Scholarship will...
Aug 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
What if surgeries fixed problems flawlessly, the first time? A large, multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic, along with industry and clinical collaborators, will work to find solutions....
Jul 19, 2024 | Cancer Center News
“To cure, prevent, and manage every human disease by the end of the century”—this is the bold vision of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Launched in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CZI aims to build a “better future for everyone” by addressing some of...
Jul 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News
It was the early 1980s. At the time, glioblastoma patients survived on average for only 10-11 months. Four decades later, the life expectancy has only marginally improved by a few months. For one team of scientists, these aren’t just statistics but family...
Jun 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Joseph Irudayaraj, the CCIL’s Associate Director for Shared Resources and professor of bioengineering, published new research in Nature Communications, demonstrating the potential of a new therapeutic to accelerate and enhance...
May 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Mohammed El-Kebir is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in computational biology, and his lab has made major advances in...
May 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Ying Diao, Viktor Gruev, and Erik Nelson were named “Researchers to Know” by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC). The ISTC honor is given to faculty nominated by university partners throughout the...
May 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Mechanochemical Dynamic Therapy (MDT) working group held its first workshop on May 21 to promote collaboration among researchers. The working group is housed in the CCIL’s Cancer Measurement Technology and Data Science (CMD)...
May 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Much like a criminal profiler tracking a suspect, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Chitra Subramanian is tracking lipids in her quest to discover new tools for diagnosing and treating cancers that start in the head and neck. The research uses two powerful tools...