Sep 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Principal investigators Martin Gruebele (left) and Zan Luthey-Schulten (Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s...
Jul 31, 2023 | Cancer Center News
The team included, from left, research scientist Chengjian Mao, graduate student Xinyi Dai, biochemistry professor David Shapiro, graduate student Junyao Zhu and molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson. Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —...
Jul 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Researchers in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang’s lab continue to pioneer novel technologies that enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. The latest innovation, detailed in a newly published paper in Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering,...
May 22, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Researchers, from left, Matthew Confer, Scott Dubowsky, and Jian Wang combined their expertise in chemistry and plasma engineering to demonstrate a metal-catalyst-free approach to form carbon-carbon bonds. An Illinois interdisciplinary research team develops...
May 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL – Beckman Institute Fellows Alejandro De la Cadena and Zane Thornburg. In fall 2023, the Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program will welcome two Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) postdoctoral researchers to its inaugural class of CCIL – Beckman...
May 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Katerina Baxter, Varshini Murugesh, and Jonathan Louis are undergraduate students affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois and recipients of the 2023 Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Two members of the CCIL’s Cancer Scholar...
Apr 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researchers Benita Katzenellenbogen and John Katzenellenbogen. Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Benita Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, Swanlund Professor...
Mar 30, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Leonardo Molina at the 2023 TiME Day Symposium. Leonardo (Leo) Molina, a Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) Training Program member and graduate student in animal sciences, was recently awarded an NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual...
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...
Feb 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Wenyan Mei, professor of comparative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the first cohort of CCIL’s JumpStart Program. In an effort to catalyze more cancer research projects among Illinois...
Jan 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan, left, and chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother. The U. of I. team found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers. The animal studies set the...
Nov 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, bright fluorescent cyanine dyes have been used in a variety of medical procedures, like identifying the sentinel lymph nodes where cancer cells might spread or identifying cancerous tumors in fluorescence-guided surgery. Though widely...