May 15, 2025 | Cancer Center News
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents the Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership each year to distinguished faculty who enrich the intellectual vitality of campus and the broader community. The awards were presented in three categories —...
May 1, 2025 | Cancer Center News
As a community health intern at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), Fiona found herself stepping far outside her comfort zone—and into the world of robots and 3D printing. “I was not specifically interested in computer science before interning with CCIL,” she...
Apr 22, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small particles secreted by cells, which inherit molecules from the parent cell. They have shown promise for the treatment of different diseases including cancer. The most common way to create a hydrogel with EV content is to make a...
Apr 8, 2025 | Cancer Center News
For most of us, ecology is external—something we simply admire on road trips and hiking expeditions. For Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Christopher Gaulke and his research team, however, the most fascinating kind of ecosystem resides inside of us, as we are...
Apr 3, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Xing Wang, professor of bioengineering and chemistry, led a research project showing that drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer...
Apr 3, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan will lead a new “Voices of Cancer” project to address cancer disparities through storytelling, research, and community engagement. The Chancellor’s Office awarded...
Apr 1, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Rimsha Bhatta, front right, was a doctoral student in CCIL member Hua Wang’s lab. Rimsha Bhatta is the newest doctoral graduate from Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang’s lab, where she has worked on numerous cancer research innovations and publications...
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...
Mar 4, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Michael Mulligan, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother, recently discovered that a small molecule called ErSO-TFPy has the ability to drastically reduce the size of large breast tumors in mice. Even more...
Feb 20, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Three Illinois scientists are among 126 recipients of the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the foundation, the awardees represent “the very best of early-career science, embodying the creativity, ambition, and rigor...
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...
