Cancer Researchers

CCIL Members

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Aleksei Aksimentiev

Professor, Physics

Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk

Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Mark Anastasio

Department Head, Bioengineering

Donald Biggar Willett Professor, Bioengineering

Rashid Bashir

Dean, Grainger College of Engineering

W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering

Rohit Bhargava

Director, Cancer Center at Illinois

W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering

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Stephen Boppart

Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Director, GSK Center for Optical Molecular Imaging

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Martin Burke

Professor, Chemistry

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Jefferson Chan

Associate Professor, Chemistry

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Jie Chen

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

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Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Professor, Computer Science

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Jessie Chin

Assistant Professor, Information Sciences

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Mark Cohen

Dean & Chief Academic Officer, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Chair, Internal Advisory Council

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Brian Cunningham

Program Leader, Cancer Measurement Technology & Data Science (CMD)

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Wawrzyniec Dobrucki

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

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Mohammed El-Kebir

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Timothy Fan

Associate Director for Translation & Development

Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine

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Jodi Flaws

Professor, Comparative Biosciences

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Brian Freeman

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

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Rex Gaskins

Professor, Animal Sciences

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Viktor Gruev

Program Leader, Cancer Measurement Technology & Data Science (CMD)

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Jiawei Han

Professor, Computer Science

Brendan Harley

Brendan Harley

Program Leader, Cancer Discovery Platforms (CDP)

Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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Paul Hergenrother

Deputy Director

Professor, Chemistry

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Raven Huang

Professor, Biochemistry

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Michael Insana

Professor, Bioengineering

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Joseph Irudayaraj

Associate Director for Shared Resources

Professor, Bioengineering

Keith Jarosinski

Associate Professor, Pathobiology

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Hong Jin

Associate Professor, Biochemistry

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Auinash Kalsotra

Associate Professor, Biochemistry

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Prasanth Kannanganattu

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

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Benita Katzenellenbogen

Professor, Physiology & Cell Biology

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John Katzenellenbogen

Professor, Chemistry

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Jongsook Kemper

Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Paul Kenis

Paul Kenis

Director, School of Chemical Sciences

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Hyunjoon Kong

Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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David Kranz

Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry

Fan Lam

Fan Lam

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

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Cecilia Leal

Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Deborah Leckband

Deborah Leckband

Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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Hua Li

Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Medical Physicist, Carle Cancer Center

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Zhi-Pei Liang

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Zeynep Madak Erdogan

Zeynep Madak Erdogan

Associate Director for Education, Cancer Center at Illinois

Associate Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition

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Angad Mehta

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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Ling Meng

Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering

Olgica Milenkovic

Olgica Milenkovic

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Douglas Mitchell

Professor, Chemistry

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Jeffrey Moore

Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair Emeritus, Chemistry

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Catherine Murphy

Interim Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology

Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair, Chemistry

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Satish Nair

Professor, Biochemistry

Erik Nelson

Erik Nelson

Program Leader, Cancer Discovery Platforms (CDP)

Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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Shuming Nie

Professor, Bioengineering

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Michael Oelze

Professor, Computer & Electrical Engineering

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Jian Peng

Associate Professor, Computer Science

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Pablo Perez-Pinera

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

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Supriya Prasanth

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

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Jason Ridlon

Associate Professor, Animal Sciences

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Sandra Rodriguez-Zas

Professor, Animal Sciences

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Taher Saif

Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering

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David Sarlah

Associate Professor, Chemistry

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Kim Selting

Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine

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Paul Selvin

Professor, Physics

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David Shapiro

Professor, Biochemistry

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Diwakar Shukla

Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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Stephen Sligar

Professor, Biochemistry

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Andrew Smith

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith

Associate Professor, Pathobiology

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Jun Song

Professor, Physics

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Pengfei Song

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Michael Spinella

Professor, Comparative Biosciences

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Emad Tajkhorshid

Professor, Biochemistry

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Gregory Underhill

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

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Bo Wang

Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences

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Hua Wang

Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Ning Wang

Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering

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Tandy Warnow

Professor, Computer Science

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Nicholas Wu

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

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Sihai Zhao

Associate Professor, Statistics

Associate Members

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Milan Bagchi

Director, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology

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Lin-Feng Chen

Professor, Biochemistry

Yun-Sheng Chen

Yun-Sheng Chen

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Catherine Christian-Hinman

Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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Matthew Dean

Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences

Ying Diao

Ying Diao

Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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Minh Do

Professor, Electrical Engineering

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John Erdman

Professor Emeritus, Food Science & Human Nutrition

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Christopher Gaulke

Assistant Professor, Pathobiology

Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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Hee-Sun Han

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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William Helferich

Professor, Nutritional Sciences

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Ravishankar Iyer

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Hillary Klonoff-Cohen

Hillary Klonoff-Cohen

Saul J. Morse & Anne B. Morgan Professor, Applied Health Sciences

Susan Leggett

Susan Leggett

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

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Brett Loman

Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences

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Wenyan Mei

Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences

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Ruby Mendenhall

Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor, Sociology

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Sara Pedron Haba

Research Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

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Erik Procko

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Huanyu Qiao

Huanyu Qiao

Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences

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Joaquín Rodríguez-López

Associate Professor, Chemistry

J. Andrew & Susan S. Langan Professorial Scholar

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Kendrith Rowland

Oncologist, Carle Cancer Center

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Edward Roy

Professor Emeritus, Pathology

Professor Emeritus, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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Lawrence Schook

Professor, Animal Sciences

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Mei Shen

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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Shannon Sirk

Assistant Professor, Engineering

Chitra Subramanian

Chitra Subramanian

Research Associate Professor, Biomedical & Translational Sciences

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Jonathan Sweedler

James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair, Chemistry

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Patrick Sweeney

Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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Kevin Van Bortle

Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

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Kai Zhang

Associate Professor, Biochemistry

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Yang Zhao

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering