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
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”...
Sep 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms that teach computers to perform tasks, can efficiently identify patterns and relationships in large amounts of data. These abilities have made AI techniques and tools indispensable in the cancer research...
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...
Jul 19, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Henry Deap, undergraduate studying cell biologyCancer Scholars Program, 2019 Cohort Hometown: Mundelein, Ill. Do you have past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? Yes, I worked with Gregory Karczmar, PhD, Professor of Radiology at the University of...
Jul 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Fisk undergraduate students (L-R) Skye Faucher, Jaia Holleman, and Leiana-Lavette Woodard participated in summer training workshops at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program. ...
Jun 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A newly developed laser source and microscope are helping researchers better understand and search for biomarkers indicative of cancer and other diseases, offering new promise for early detection and treatment plans. The study, co-authored by Cancer...
May 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki, left, Zhongmin Zhu, Viktor Gruev, Zuodong Liang, Steven Blair and Shuming Nie collaborated to develop an imaging system that replicates the vision of mantis shrimp and could help surgeons achieve cleaner margins during cancer-removal procedures....
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 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Mohammed El-Kebir Urbana, Ill. – Calling single-cell sequencing (SCS) the “next technological frontier” in the understanding of cancerous tumors, Illinois CS professor Mohammed El-Kebir earned the NSF CAREER Award to propel his research forward. The $500,000 award...
Mar 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Saurabh Sinha, CCIL member. Urbana, Ill. – Although the development of secondary cancerous growths, called metastasis, is the primary cause of death in most cancers, the cellular changes that drive it are poorly understood. In a new study, published in Genome...
