Mar 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson. Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson are the recipients of a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to explore new biomedical technologies for improved cancer immunotherapy....
Feb 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Jonathan Sweedler, professor in chemistry and Cancer Center at Illinois researcher, is pictured here with graduate students, from the left, Blake Mirman and Seth Croslow. We recently sat down with Jonathan Sweedler, a research member with the Cancer Center at...
Jul 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers with a prototype image-guided surgical system (standing third from left is Professor Viktor Gruev and fourth from left is Professor Shuming Nie). Urbana, Ill. – An innovative camera technology, inspired by the mantis shrimp’s visual...
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...
Jul 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Estrogen receptors, proteins that promote cell growth, are therapeutic targets for endocrine-based breast cancer therapies. These therapies, including aromatase inhibitor treatments, perform well against breast cancer cells with normal, “wild type”...
Dec 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval. This testing usually involves lengthy and expensive animal studies. A research team at University of Illinois...
Apr 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Timothy M. Fan, Professor of Veterinary Oncology, has been appointed as program leader of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) research program in Cancer Discovery Platforms Across the Engineering-Biology Continuum. Fan will co-lead this research program with Brendan...
Apr 26, 2019 | Cancer Center News
TiMe Students and Mentors at TiMe Day 2019 The TiMe Cohort hosted the third-annual Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Symposium on April 26, 2019 at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. This year over 90 participants across 15 departments from the...
Aug 22, 2018 | Cancer Center News
The gene-editing technology CRISPR is already making a huge difference across many scientific fields, but its importance could be about to grow even further – scientists have discovered a new technique that can leave out particular sections of a gene, essentially...
May 29, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Insert caption for feature image here – if not applicable, delete this section. Researchers from the University of Illinois have created a new kind of 3-D printer capable of producing complex shapes from sugar that can be used to grow biological tissues. The...
May 21, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor Andrew Smith, right, and graduate student Mohammad Zahid. With targeted drug and gene therapies, finding the target cells is only half the battle. Once these agents reach a cell’s surface, they still have to get inside and do their job. University...
Apr 5, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Cancer lurking in tissue could be more easily found when looking through a butterfly’s eye. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the morpho...
