Jul 13, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Who doesn’t want cancer testing results at less cost, with greater speed and accuracy? Interdisciplinary innovators like Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham are among the pioneers of the emerging field of point-of-care (POC) diagnostic...
Jul 2, 2026 | Cancer Center News
A new laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is bringing together two of the most dynamic frontiers in medicine — cancer treatment and regenerative medicine — under one roof for the first time. Regenerative medicine is the science of repairing,...
Jun 17, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 130 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...
Jun 17, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Fresh off the heels of the Basic Cancer Center designation by the National Cancer Institute, the Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) met with a delegation from Carle Health to fortify a key local partnership in the fight against cancer. While the two institutions have...
Jun 1, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 130 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...
May 26, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Researchers in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Xing Wang discovered the influential role of structural chirality, or “handedness”, of a DNA nanostructure to dictate cancer cell response to targeted therapeutics. The team’s findings are reported in...
May 20, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) are using advanced imaging to better understand drug-tolerant cells. Cancer cells do not always respond to chemotherapy in the same way. Some cells survive treatment and later contribute to treatment failure or...
May 14, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Viktor Gruev and Dr. Claudius Conrad recently appeared on WCIA to discuss new imaging technology developed in Gruev’s lab to detect cancer in lymph nodes using ultraviolet and infrared cameras. The cameras were 97%...
May 13, 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...
May 13, 2026 | Cancer Center News
A new camera system developed by researchers at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED) could help surgeons instantly determine whether to remove a patient’s lymph nodes during cancer surgery. The system uses ultraviolet...
May 6, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Higher levels of the structural proteins collagen and fibrin around a tumor counterintuitively make the tissue softer — the opposite of conventional thinking, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the interplay of...
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...