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Two New Biosensing Instruments Take Big Leap Forward for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Two New Biosensing Instruments Take Big Leap Forward for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Oct 9, 2024 | Cancer Center News

Read time: 5 minutesKeywords: digital resolution biosensing, cancer biomarker, antibody detection, dynamic assay, micro RNA, microscopy Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham has developed two new biomarker detection instruments with the...
Chitra Subramanian Leads Discovery of New Tools to Diagnose and Treat Head and Neck Cancers

Chitra Subramanian Leads Discovery of New Tools to Diagnose and Treat Head and Neck Cancers

May 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News

Much like a criminal profiler tracking a suspect, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Chitra Subramanian is tracking lipids in her quest to discover new tools for diagnosing and treating cancers that start in the head and neck. The research uses two powerful tools...
Tumor Engineering & Phenotyping Facility Accelerates Discoveries for Campus Researchers

Tumor Engineering & Phenotyping Facility Accelerates Discoveries for Campus Researchers

May 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News, CCIL Shared Resources

The Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) Facility is the largest space dedicated to cancer research at Illinois The TEP is a campus shared resource supporting CCIL members and all other researchers at the university, as well...
New Photonic Crystal Approach can Enable Sensitive and Affordable Detection of Biomarkers

New Photonic Crystal Approach can Enable Sensitive and Affordable Detection of Biomarkers

May 10, 2024 | Cancer Center News

Biomarkers are small molecules of interest to researchers, because they can indicate underlying diseases, often even before symptoms even appear. However, detecting these markers can be challenging as they are often present in very low quantities, especially in the...
Research Team Led by Viktor Gruev Awarded Convergence Accelerator Grant by the National Science Foundation

Research Team Led by Viktor Gruev Awarded Convergence Accelerator Grant by the National Science Foundation

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...
Seeing the Unseen: How Butterflies Can Help Scientists Detect Cancer

Seeing the Unseen: How Butterflies Can Help Scientists Detect Cancer

Nov 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News

​There are many creatures on our planet with more advanced senses than humans. Turtles can sense Earth’s magnetic field. Mantis shrimp can detect polarized light. Elephants can hear much lower frequencies than humans can. Butterflies can perceive a broader range of...
Researchers Develop a ‘Sweet’ Strategy for Targeted Cancer Therapeutics through Unnatural Sugar Metabolic Labeling

Researchers Develop a ‘Sweet’ Strategy for Targeted Cancer Therapeutics through Unnatural Sugar Metabolic Labeling

Aug 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News

CCIL researchers Bo Yang and Hua Wang Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers have demonstrated a novel two-step strategy to label and eradicate cancer stem-like cells (CSC) to improve cancer treatment prognosis. CSCs are small sub-populations of cancer cells...
From lab to the operating room, researchers’ novel imaging system pushes endoscopy toward the ‘holy grail’ in cancer surgery

From lab to the operating room, researchers’ novel imaging system pushes endoscopy toward the ‘holy grail’ in cancer surgery

May 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Graduate Student Mebin George and CCIL Member Viktor Gruev with their novel endoscopic imaging system. Researchers from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) traveled the rewarding journey from benchtop to the operating room, observing their novel technology in the...
‘Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate’ – Cancer Researchers Pair Two Novel Effects for a Superior Biomarker Detection Method

‘Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate’ – Cancer Researchers Pair Two Novel Effects for a Superior Biomarker Detection Method

May 18, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Brian Cunningham, left, is joined by research team members Priyash Barya, Skye Shepherd, and Yanyu Xiong Researchers from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham’s lab in collaboration with researchers at Washington University have...
Researchers set sights on prostate cancer with new, rapid biomarker detection method

Researchers set sights on prostate cancer with new, rapid biomarker detection method

Feb 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois program leader Brian Cunningham is joined by research project members, from the left, Xiaojing Wang and Skye Shepherd, who were co-first authors on the teams’ recently published research. Team members not pictured include: Nantao Li,...
New molecule targets, images and treats lung cancer tumors in mice

New molecule targets, images and treats lung cancer tumors in mice

Nov 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Jefferson Chan and Melissa Lucero. Urbana, Ill. – Lung cancer can be elusive to spot and difficult to treat because the markers for it are found in other tissues, too. Now, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a finely tuned molecular...
Compact biosensor microscope built for point of care diagnostics

Compact biosensor microscope built for point of care diagnostics

Oct 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News

An artistic representation of gold nanoparticles on a photonic crystal surface. Created by Janet Kirker. Urbana, Ill. – For several years the Cunningham group has been developing microscopes that use photonic crystal biosensors—nanostructured glass surfaces that...
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