Joaquín Rodríguez-López

Joaquín Rodríguez-López

Joaquín Rodríguez-López did his undergraduate studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he performed research in electrochemistry with Prof. Marcelo Videa (2005). He then moved to nearby Texas to obtain a Ph.D. under the guidance of Prof. Allen J. Bard at the...
Mei Shen

Mei Shen

Mei Shen received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Prof. Allen J. Bard in 2011. Before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mei performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Shigeru Amemiya at the...
Jonathan Sweedler

Jonathan Sweedler

Professor Sweedler received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Davis in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1989. Thereafter, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University before joining the faculty at...
Yang Zhao

Yang Zhao

Yang Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Yang received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin working with Professor...
Kevin Van Bortle

Kevin Van Bortle

RNA polymerase III (Pol III) upregulation is a hallmark of cancer, suggesting increased Pol III activity, which produces tRNA, 5S rRNA, and other small RNA species needed for protein accumulation, is a requirement for cancer cell proliferation. Using a combinatorial...
Patrick Sweeney

Patrick Sweeney

Dr. Sweeney’s research focuses on understanding how the brain responds to cancer. Our work is particularly interested in understanding the brain pathways mediating anorexia and visceral malaise during cancer progression and cancer treatments. Ultimately, our goal is...
Shannon Sirk

Shannon Sirk

Sirk’s research is focused on engineering innovative new approaches for the production and delivery of biological therapeutics, including cancer therapies. The Sirk lab’s overarching goal is to reduce cost and increase access to cutting-edge treatments,...
Sara Pedron Haba

Sara Pedron Haba

Pedron Haba has worked on establishing in vitro platforms for evaluating microenvironmental pressures impacting brain tumor growth and evolution. These efforts concentrate on the development of 3D hydrogel platforms as well as microfluidic forming technologies to...
Hee-Sun Han

Hee-Sun Han

Hee-Sun Han’s lab develops novel technologies integrating diverse chemical and physical principles to study intact, fully assembled biological systems with single cell/molecule resolution, at high throughput while retaining the spatial or environmental...
Kendrith Rowland

Kendrith Rowland

Kendrith M. Rowland is an oncologist at Carle Foundation Hospital and Carle Cancer Center. He manages Carle’s NCI Community Oncology Research Program, optimizing collaboration between cancer researchers and clinicians to improve cancer prevention efforts,...
Kai Zhang

Kai Zhang

Kai Zhang’s lab group studies how signal transduction regulates cell fate determination and how normal signaling processes are compromised in disease conditions. Using live cell imaging and optogenetic control of signal transduction, Zhang observes and perturbs...
William Helferich

William Helferich

William Helferich investigates diet-correlated breast cancer growth and progression with a specific interest in botanical estrogens from soy and other dietary supplemental sources. He also has interest in how thermally abused oil can alter breast cancer metastasis...