Dec 7, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Drashti Sikligar, Bioengineering JuniorCancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Hoffman Estates Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
Nov 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member, Michael Oelze, and his collaborative breast cancer and ultrasound imaging research with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, was awarded a major $2M grant from the National Cancer Institute...
Nov 23, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — The basic principles of biology state that cells are one of the smallest building blocks of every living organism. Everything in your body is made of them. When we get sick or we’re diagnosed with a disease like lung cancer, though we can’t see them,...
Nov 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
In this three-part series, the CCIL’s Communication Intern Carly Kwiecinski explores current outcomes for the disease, provides personal insight into her family’s experience with it, and discusses how the CCIL is transforming cancer care. PART 1 – PANCREATIC CANCER: A...
Nov 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
ILLINOIS — A desire to improve the status of cancer patient treatments led former theoretical physicist, Jun Song (PhD), to pivot his career towards cancer research. He spent several years learning about cancer biology and retraining to apply his background in...
Nov 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Current cancer treatments include drugs that target standard protein synthesis in cells, which can kill cancer cells, but also targets healthy cells. To address this issue, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and professor of biophysics and quantitative biology,...
Nov 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Vongai Tizora, Bioengineering Junior Cancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Forsyth, Illinois Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
Sep 21, 2020 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Congratulations to Carlos Renteria, a graduate student in the Cancer Center at Illinois’ Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) training program, who has been awarded a new traineeship with The University of Illinois’ Research Training Program in Environmental...
Apr 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
If you ask any one of Tim Oberg’s family members, friends, or colleagues to describe him, the first word that would pop into their head is, “Illinois.” And not just because he lived in the state, but because of his passion for his alma mater, the University of...
