Jun 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Diwakar Shukla Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla is among 84 highly accomplished early-career engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based...
Dec 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hyunjoon (Joon) Kong. Urbana, Ill. – Hyunjoon (Joon) Kong, Cancer Center at Illinois researcher and a leader in research on multi-cellular engineered living cell systems, has been named the Robert W. Schaefer Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular...
Mar 3, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hyunjoon Kong, Robert W. Schafer professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, approaches cancer research from a perspective that integrates cell engineering and biomaterials. The Kong research team has been working with Georgia Tech University and Massachusetts...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Graduate Program kicks off its 2020 – 2021 academic year with nine new trainees dedicated to advancing biomedical science and healthcare. “With every new cohort of TiMe trainees comes the...
Jul 16, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Brendan Harley, CCIL Research Program Leader and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is studying glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. In collaboration with other researchers, Harley’s lab is developing platforms to help scientists...
May 4, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Hyunjoon Kong, CCIL member and a Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, recently published a study in ACS Nano. Kong and collaborator Marni Boppart, Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health, tested the use of nanostimulators mixed...
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...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Brendan Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and CCIL Program Leader, is studying neurodegenerative disease models with the Director’s Innovation Fund and further support from the NCI. The DIF was initiated by alumnus Scott Fisher to honor...
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Two grants will fund interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, including a look at how neurons and muscle cells communicate with each other and also to develop a drug delivery system for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease....