Jul 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Cathy Murphy, Cancer Center at Illinois member, professor, and Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, is making history as the first female Head of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Murphy has been an Illini since the 1980’s, during...
Jun 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a new method to improve the detection ability of nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy. These improvements reduce the noise that is associated with the...
Jun 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Professor Yi Lu has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joseph Chatt Award. The Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry won the award for elucidating design principles of artificial metalloproteins to gain novel and deeper insights into the...
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 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A warm, tropical island protects the secrets of mysterious, colorful flora, while scientists spend decades searching for medical remedies. This may seem like the start to an Indiana Jones adventure, and for University of Illinois Chemistry Assistant Professor and...
Apr 2, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director and professor of bioengineering, has recently published a paper, “Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Visualizes a Prognostic Extracellular Matrix-Related Signature in Breast Cancer,” in Scientific Reports. The study identified...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Story originally from Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jongsook Kim Kemper, Professor of Molecular and Integrative physiology, and her colleagues Sangwon Byun (co-first author), Sunmi Seok (co-first author), Young Kim (research scientist), and Peter Yau have published...
Feb 27, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Paul J. Hergenrother, the Kenneth L. Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director effective March 1, 2020. Paul currently co-leads the CCIL research...
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....
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Chan group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has recently developed a probe named CoxFluor, which is able to distinguish between Cyclooxygenase-2, an enzyme that plays a major role in driving the progression of cancer, and...
Nov 26, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Paul Hergenrother Paul Hergenrother, professor of chemistry and leader of the CCIL Program 2 (Cancer Discovery Platforms Bridging the Engineering-Biology Continuum), is one of eight Illinois faculty members elected as a 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the...
Nov 20, 2019 | Cancer Center News
The team includes, from left, graduate student Emily Geddes, pathobiology professor Gee Lau, chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, postdoctoral researcher Hyang Yeon Lee, and postdoctoral researcher Erica Parker. Paul Hergenrother, professor of chemistry,...
