Apr 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk Technological advancements over the past few decades have laid the groundwork for the use of microbe-based drugs to treat diseases. Bioengineering professor Shannon Sirk and her lab are engineering human commensal microbes into living therapeutics,...
Apr 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, Cancer Center at Illinois Director, is a Founder Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received a B. Tech. dual degree (Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New...
Apr 14, 2022 | Cancer Center News
This kidney cancer tumor model imaged using ultrasound localization techniques captures directional flow mapping of the tumor and distinguishes between feeding and draining vasculature. More than 75 years after the Fry brothers arrived at Grainger Engineering, the...
Apr 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Andrew Smith (left) and Kelly Swanson (right). To accurately diagnose and treat diseases, doctors and researchers need to see inside bodies. Medical imaging tools have come a long way since the humble x-ray, but most existing tools remain too coarse to quantify...
Mar 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk and the Sirk Research Group. Urbana, Ill. – An Illinois research team is developing a method of producing and delivering monoclonal antibody treatments for breast cancer through commensal microbes in the gut. If successful, this approach could increase...
Mar 16, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brian Cunningham Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois and Mount Sinai researchers have developed a low-cost, portable, point-of-care technology capable of diagnosing early-stage liver cancer within 30 minutes. The study, led by Brian Cunningham, Cancer...
Feb 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Gabriel Popescu, Mark A. Anastasio, Chenfei Hu Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live-cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can indicate whether a cancer...
Jan 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of Bashar Emon Bashar Emon, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, is using the funding from his Cancer Center at Illinois Graduate Cancer Scholarship Program to focus on characterizing matrix remodeling in the cancer microenvironment. The rigidity of the cancer...
Dec 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hua Wang. Urbana, Ill. – Funded by the Faculty Early Career Development Program, CCIL researcher and assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Hua Wang, was recognized as a promising academic. Wang will receive a five-year, $700,000 award...
Nov 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Rong “Ronny” Guo, a student in CCIL researcher Zhi-Pei Liang’s lab and 2021 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow studying electrical and computer engineering, took home first prize at the annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Student...
Oct 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Shannon Sirk. Urbana, Ill. – Therapeutic antibodies have revolutionized the treatment of many diseases, including cancer. However, these drugs can be prohibitively expensive and are not an option for every patient. Shannon Sirk, Cancer Center at Illinois...
Oct 6, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Robert W. Schaefer Professor Brendan Harley has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Class of 2021 Fellows. This distinction recognizes members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical...
