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...
Jul 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Yun-Sheng Chen (left) and Huanyu Qiao The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomes two new members to our growing community of cancer researchers. Yun-Sheng Chen joins the CCIL as an associate member in the Cancer Measurement...
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,...
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. ...
Apr 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The prevalence of health misinformation can influence public opinion, partially due to poor health literacy, and influence risk perception regarding treatments, screening, vaccinations, and cancer. Jessie Chin, assistant professor at the School of...
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...
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 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Vongai Tizora, Bioengineering Junior Cancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Forsyth, Illinois Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
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...
