CCIL Seed Grant Q&A: Diwakar Shukla

CCIL Seed Grant Q&A: Diwakar Shukla

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...
Faculty Spotlight: Hee-Sun Han

Faculty Spotlight: Hee-Sun Han

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...
New computational models to understand colon cancer

New computational models to understand colon cancer

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...
CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava named a 2020 AAAS Fellow

CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava named a 2020 AAAS Fellow

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;...