Donors who want to make an impactful investment toward a university priority within the Health Sciences Research Institutes can support any one or all three vital areas within the Center Center at Illinois (CCIL). Instructional: gifts will support scholarships,...
Akshya earned her Master’s degree in Information Management from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in May 2023. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and worked as a Software Developer in India before pursuing higher education in...
Katie Julkowski is the Program Manager for the Breakthrough Engineering and Advanced Treatment of Cancer (BEAT Cancer) Initiative within the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). In her role, she provides operational and logistical support to the BEAT Cancer Scientific...
Jessica earned a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Public Relations from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania before embarking on a nearly decade-long career in journalism. She was an anchor and reporter at WCIA in Champaign, delivering impactful stories to...
Tyler Wolpert is the Assistant Director for Communications and Outreach. Tyler has been on campus since 2014 in communications positions at the Family Resiliency Center and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. Before joining the university,...
Upon completing an interdisciplinary engineering and marketing degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jonathan spent nearly two decades developing a robust array of capacities in student services, community development, fundraising, program...
Huimin Zhang has provided several years of technical support working with life science-related products, and she has over a decade of research experience in a genomic research lab. Before joining the CCIL, Zhang spent seven years as a lab manager at the Carl R. Woese...
Hui Xu is the inaugural Research Coordinator for the CCIL Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping Shared Resource. Dr. Xu received a doctoral degree in molecular biology and has helped set up a protein facility at Texas A&M University and helped grow a commercial...
Cathy Tingley has provided administrative support at the University of Illinois since 1995 in the Department of Chemistry. She joined the Institute for Genomic Biology in 2006. In 2008, Cathy became the administrative assistant for the newly formed Division of...
Marcia “Marci” Pool received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. She was the Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois from 2015 to 2019. She develops problem-based laboratories to...
Before joining the CCIL, Liudmila “Mila” Mirica was the Director of Budget and Finance in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. Mila brings nine years of finance and administrative experience in an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer...
James McGraw is the lab administrator for the Bhargava group. Jim began his career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 as an Account Technician I in the School of Integrative Biology Business Office. Eight Months later, Jim became an Account...
