Nov 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
In a newly established collaboration between the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute (OSF) in Peoria, IL and the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), five project proposals were selected to receive funding through the Breakthrough and Advanced Treatment of (BEAT) Cancer...
Oct 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, DNA repair, cancer therapy, cancer treatment A groundbreaking research project led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Huanyu Qiao, Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences, secured a CCIL Seed...
Oct 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Read time: 3 minutesKeywords: immunotherapy, cancer vaccine, CAR T cell therapy, tumor antigens, dendritic cells, mRNA, grant The American Cancer Society (ACS) awarded Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang a Research Scholar Grant to investigate a novel...
Aug 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
What if surgeries fixed problems flawlessly, the first time? A large, multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic, along with industry and clinical collaborators, will work to find solutions....
May 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Hua Wang and Rohit Bhargava, in collaboration with clinical partners Dr. Kanishka Sircar and Dr. Jose Karam at MD Anderson, received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) Congressional Directed...
Feb 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
From left to right, Prof. Borislav Kondov, Viktor Gruev, and ZHongmin Zhu, shown here in the operating room at the University Clinic Hospital in North Macedonia along with the NSF-funded research team’s imaging instrument which allows for evaluation of ex vivo...
