Jul 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Four Illinois students received the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Graduate Cancer Scholarships to pursue cancer research projects under the mentorship of CCIL scientists. “A core mission of the Cancer Center at Illinois is to mobilize and...
Jul 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hailey Knox, ChemistryTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program, 2018 Cohort Where are you working now? I am currently working as a postdoctoral scholar with Professors Dennis Dougherty and Henry Lester at the California Institute of Technology. What are you currently...
Jun 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Top row, left to right: M. Taher Saif, Shannon Sirk, Kimberly Selting; Middle row: Rashid Bashir, Cecilia Leal, Jason Ridlon; Bottom row: Supriya Prasanth, Hua Li, Mohammed El-Kebir Nine interdisciplinary projects designed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
Jun 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Elucidating the Role of Minor Cannabinoids on Immune Cell Activation Involved in Lung Cancer Metastatic Progression” Research team includes: David Sarlah (Prinicipal Investigator), assistant professor of chemistry, and Timothy Fan,...
May 4, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering and Mayo Clinic have developed a new technique for creating “microcancer” cell cultures. It allows researchers to form hundreds of microcancers in a...
May 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Deep Mutational Scanning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Cancer Using Transfer Learning Approaches” Research team includes: Erik Procko, assistant professor in biochemistry What led to your exploration of cancer? Cancer is one of...
Apr 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Removing the phosphate group from kinases can activate them, which can be problematic. LanCL adds glutathione to these kinases, after which they became deactivated. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers from the University of Illinois in collaboration with scientists at Oxford...
Apr 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Comparisons of high definition and standard definition infrared imaging for digital histopathology. Urbana, Ill. – Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be...
Mar 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava and graduate student Yamuna Phal analyzing a microscopic image of solid tissue. This photo was taken in February 2020. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers have developed a spectroscopic microscope to enable optical measurements of molecular conformations and...
Feb 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Left – Individual cells invade away from a central tumor spheroid and into the surrounding vascularized microenvironment. Tumor cells are shown in red and vasculature is shown in green. Right – Individual tumor cells (red) interact closely with surrounding vasculature...
Nov 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Current cancer treatments include drugs that target standard protein synthesis in cells, which can kill cancer cells, but also targets healthy cells. To address this issue, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and professor of biophysics and quantitative biology,...
Nov 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Vongai Tizora, Bioengineering Junior Cancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Forsyth, Illinois Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
