Mar 2, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – When Ron Filler (LAS ’70) learned about the groundbreaking research conducted at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), he knew he needed to bring his “Filler Effect” – the spirit of giving and mentorship – to support...
Feb 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Left – Individual cells invade away from a central tumor spheroid and into the surrounding vascularized microenvironment. Tumor cells are shown in red and vasculature is shown in green. Right – Individual tumor cells (red) interact closely with surrounding vasculature...
Feb 19, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director and Founder Professor in Bioengineering, was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), this award...
Feb 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Four in ten* patients screened for breast cancer are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis due to the presence of dense breast tissue. Traditional mammography cannot reliably diagnose the disease in these patients, sometimes even with the help of supplemental screening....
Feb 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki (left) and Michael Oelze (right). Urbana, Ill. – Eight faculty from The Grainger College of Engineering have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation Professor appointments. The new faculty deliver on Carle Illinois’...
Feb 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
In 2019, Hua Li, research associate professor of bioengineering, was awarded more than $2M from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) shortly after joining the University of Illinois. Since receiving the NCI funds, Li, also a clinical medical physicist at Carle...
Jan 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
When Kim Selting, Illinois associate professor of veterinary clinical medicine, was selected for the 2020-2021 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship led by the OpEd Project in August 2020, she was unsure how to marry her personal opinion with evidence-based science....
Dec 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval. This testing usually involves lengthy and expensive animal studies. A research team at University of Illinois...
Dec 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A new computational mass spectrometry imaging method enables researchers to achieve high mass resolution and high spatial resolution for biological samples while providing data sets exponentially faster. Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
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 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Six professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bioengineering professor Rohit Bhargava; evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell;...
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,...
