Mar 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson. Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson are the recipients of a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to explore new biomedical technologies for improved cancer immunotherapy....
Mar 8, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Optica recently announced that Brian T. Cunningham, CCIL Program Leader and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award. Established in 2012, the Feld Biophotonics Award...
Mar 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Hua Wang is pictured here with graduate student Rimsha Bhatta, on his left, who has worked in Wang’s research lab since 2020. An Illinois research team led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist Hua Wang, a professor of...
Feb 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Jonathan Sweedler, professor in chemistry and Cancer Center at Illinois researcher, is pictured here with graduate students, from the left, Blake Mirman and Seth Croslow. We recently sat down with Jonathan Sweedler, a research member with the Cancer Center at...
Feb 21, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Erik Nelson, professor of molecular and integrative physiology in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, considers this moment “a milestone” in his career. Several...
Feb 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Wenyan Mei, professor of comparative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the first cohort of CCIL’s JumpStart Program. In an effort to catalyze more cancer research projects among Illinois...
Feb 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois program leader Brian Cunningham is joined by research project members, from the left, Xiaojing Wang and Skye Shepherd, who were co-first authors on the teams’ recently published research. Team members not pictured include: Nantao Li,...
Jan 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan, left, and chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother. The U. of I. team found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers. The animal studies set the...
Dec 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
John Katzenellenbogen, left, Benita Katzenellenbogen and their colleagues found that stimulating estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast cancers. The...
Nov 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The interdisciplinary Beckman Institute team included (from left): Anirudha Rao, a graduate student in bioengineering; Scott Robinson, the former Beckman Institute Microscopy Suite Manager; Seth Kenkel, a postdoctoral research associate; Rohit Bhargava, director of...
Nov 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, bright fluorescent cyanine dyes have been used in a variety of medical procedures, like identifying the sentinel lymph nodes where cancer cells might spread or identifying cancerous tumors in fluorescence-guided surgery. Though widely...
Nov 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Just as species evolve through mutation and selection acting on individuals in a population, cancer cells and tumors evolve by mutation and selection acting on cells within the tumor. Normal cells divide and mutate over time into subpopulations of...
