Jun 25, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) recently hosted students visiting from Wilbur Wright College’s Transfer Pathways Program on June 11. The Transfer Pathways Program partners with the Grainger College of Engineering to provide students with guaranteed admission to...
May 30, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Mohammed El-Kebir is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in computational biology, and his lab has made major advances in...
Apr 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign each year presents Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction to exceptional faculty and staff members, graduate teaching assistants and advisors campuswide. This year’s recipients are being honored at a...
Oct 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Mark Anastasio, a professor of bioengineering; Stephen Boppart, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; and Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering, will use funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging...
Oct 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Pengfei Song, a researcher at the Beckman Institute and a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; Matthew Lowerison, a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow; and Zhijie Dong, a Ph.D. student in the Song Lab, are members of an...
Oct 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are quickly becoming ubiquitous for cancer researchers for their ability to efficiently process large quantities of data. This data can include multi-omic sequencing that contains information about the genome,...
Oct 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News
An artistic representation of gold nanoparticles on a photonic crystal surface. Created by Janet Kirker. Urbana, Ill. – For several years the Cunningham group has been developing microscopes that use photonic crystal biosensors—nanostructured glass surfaces that...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate cancer, using single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs, which refer to mutations in a person’s...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Saurabh Sinha. Urbana, Ill. – In bioinformatics, machine learning (ML) tools are used to solve problems in molecular biology and genetics. In healthy cells, genes — the carriers of hereditary information — are switched “on” or “off” to carry out specific...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Mohammed El-Kebir. Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence is often employed in the field of cancer genomics, where bits of DNA sequencing data must be identified and further analyzed with statistical, evolutional, and probabilistic models. “Off-the-shelf”...
Aug 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A team of Beckman researchers led by Kianoush Falahkheirkhah, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Rohit Bhargava, director of the Cancer Center at Illinois, developed new software to boost infrared imaging-based cancer...
Aug 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Chenfei Hu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tissue Microenvironment Program, TiMe 2020 Cohort Where are you working now? I am currently working for Applied Material at Santa Clara, CA, as an Optical System Engineer. Applied Material is a leading...
