Nov 1, 2019 | Cancer Center News
CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava, Professor of Engineering, and member Jonathan Sweedler, the James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, made Analytical Scientist’s Power List Top 100. These individuals are...
Mar 10, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Students at Beckman and Engineering Open House The TiMe Cohort partnered with ENgineers Volunteering In STEM EducatION (ENVISION), a graduate student led outreach group, to participate in the 2019 Beckman Institute Open House. At this event, which was held in...
Aug 8, 2018 | Cancer Center News
A newly developed tool combines different types of genomic data to predict patients’ specific responses to therapeutic drugs. The application, developed by the University of Illinois and the Mayo Clinic, is based on information contained in human genomes and enables...
Jul 2, 2018 | Cancer Center News
DNA nanostructure flips lipids from one side of a lipid bilayer to the other more than 1,000 times as fast as natural enzymes called scramblases, researchers report (Nat. Commun. 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04821-5). Asymmetry in the lipid composition of the inner...
May 29, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Insert caption for feature image here – if not applicable, delete this section. Researchers from the University of Illinois have created a new kind of 3-D printer capable of producing complex shapes from sugar that can be used to grow biological tissues. The...
Mar 14, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Cancer research is becoming more reliant on data, computing, software, and visualization. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Cancer Center teamed up to discuss these issues on March 14, 2018. NCSA is a hub of transdisciplinary research...
Jan 22, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz. The Tissue Microenvironment class was privileged to spend an hour and a half talking with Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Alagoz came in from Wisconsin to speak to the ISE Graduate Seminar students, but...
Jan 18, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Saurabh Sinha. Saurabh Sinha, a professor of computer science, is among the top researchers in the field of bioinformatics whose work aligns with the campus vision to excel in health and medicine. He has worked on computational models of the genetics of...