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...
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....
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...
Apr 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hee-Sun Han, Assistant Professor and Mark A. Pytosh Scholar Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry, is using her expertise in optics, chemistry, and computational biology to tackle cancer. Han...
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...
Mar 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Rashid Bashir, professor of bioengineering and dean of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering, has been awarded the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) 2021 Professional Impact Award...
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 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki (left) and Michael Oelze (right). Urbana, Ill. – Eight faculty from The Grainger College of Engineering have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation Professor appointments. The new faculty deliver on Carle Illinois’...
Dec 18, 2020 | Cancer Center News
When agrochemical and pharmaceutical companies develop new products, they must test extensively for potential toxicity before obtaining regulatory approval. This testing usually involves lengthy and expensive animal studies. A research team at University of Illinois...
Dec 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A new computational mass spectrometry imaging method enables researchers to achieve high mass resolution and high spatial resolution for biological samples while providing data sets exponentially faster. Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and...
Nov 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Six professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bioengineering professor Rohit Bhargava; evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell;...