Jun 4, 2025 | Cancer Center News
A new avenue for targeted drug delivery has been proposed by researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their findings, published in Materials Today Bio, report the first successful application of metabolic...
Mar 24, 2025 | Cancer Center News
From medical imaging to solar panels, many technologies of the future rely on nanocrystals. Nanocrystals are tiny particles of material, often only a few nanometers (one billionth of a meter) across. Their microscopic size gives them unique properties, such as the way...
Mar 24, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Our microbiome is critical to our overall health. Scientists have only recently begun to understand the depths to which our overall wellbeing can be affected by the microorganisms in our gut. Beyond direct effects like digestion and metabolism, our microbiome can...
Feb 12, 2025 | Cancer Center News
With the help of a $33 million contract, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign engineers with the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory have created technology to help doctors look at cells in new ways without a microscope. The Margin Diagnostics (MarginDx) project...
Feb 10, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified a key process coordinating liver maturation and polyploidization, a state in which cells carry more than two sets of chromosomes. Their findings, published in Genes and Development, provide insight into...
Oct 7, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Department of Defense today announced awards totaling $43 million to 112 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The grants will support the purchase of major equipment at 64 institutions across 28 states in...
Sep 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
For typical illnesses, the body’s immune system is a robust, pathogen-killing machine. It provides a general defense against harmful germs while also adapting and producing antibodies that target specific bacteria or viruses. After fighting off an infection like...
Aug 27, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2025 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field. Among those receiving honors are University of Illinois professors Lori Raetzman and Erik Nelson of...
Aug 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News
CCIL researcher Hua Wang holds a research team meeting in his laboratory in the Materials Science and Engineering building As part of our ongoing self-evaluation and strategic review processes, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is revising the names and themes of...
Jun 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A study led by Cancer Center at Illinois member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan shows as potential link to aggressive lung cancer tumors and neighborhood violence, perhaps shedding new light on the impact stress has on the body. Madak-Erdogan recently spoke with CBS News Chicago...
Jun 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News
New research led by a Carle Illinois College of Medicine student suggests sampling the genetic makeup of tumors in the liver could help identify the most effective cancer-fighting strategy. The studies focus on identifying genetic markers that could point the way to...
Jun 4, 2024 | Cancer Center News
On Thursday, May 9th, cancer centers across Big Ten universities held a notable gathering. Two members of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL): Timothy M. Fan and Viktor Gruev, led this month’s Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (CRC) Grand Rounds. Viktor Gruev is a...
