Sep 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Undergraduate student researcher Katerina Baxter, along with several other Illinois undergrads, presented the results of their summer research projects at the Beckman Institute. A dozen Illinois students, including several affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois...
Sep 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher and Director of Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer) New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with...
Sep 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Principal investigators Martin Gruebele (left) and Zan Luthey-Schulten (Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s...
Sep 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Joonsu Han and Hua Wang Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang and his research group are passionate about developing novel – but simple – solutions to not only improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies, but...
Aug 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL researchers Bo Yang and Hua Wang Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers have demonstrated a novel two-step strategy to label and eradicate cancer stem-like cells (CSC) to improve cancer treatment prognosis. CSCs are small sub-populations of cancer cells...
Aug 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Sara Pedron Haba, Edward Roy, Chitra Subramanian, and Bo Wang The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) supports the most innovative ideas from Illinois faculty through grant programs that catalyze transdisciplinary cancer...
Jul 27, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) program leader Tim Fan, professor of veterinary medical science, is collaborating with former Illinois faculty member Dane Wittrup on an innovative cancer immunotherapy research project with client-owned pet dogs that have soft-tissue...
Jul 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois members Joonsu Han (left), Hua Wang (center), and Rhimsha Bhatta. Researchers in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang’s lab continue to pioneer novel technologies that enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. The latest...
Jul 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Yun-Sheng Chen (left) and Huanyu Qiao The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomes two new members to our growing community of cancer researchers. Yun-Sheng Chen joins the CCIL as an associate member in the Cancer Measurement...
Jun 15, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois Program Leader Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Research Assistant Ayca Nazli Mogol Illinois researchers have identified a metabolic pathway inhibitor with reduced toxicity and improved efficacy of therapeutic regimens and outcomes for metastatic...
Jun 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Postdoctoral researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and CCIL researcher Viktor Gruev, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led a team of researchers developing new cancer imaging agents that can light up two cancer biomarkers when lit by one fluorescent...
May 25, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois Student Organization outreach assistants Nina Soofi, Kevin Meier, and Brigitte Joyce at the Y on the Fly afterschool venue in Champaign, IL. The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomed a new STEM outreach partnership with the Stephens...
