Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – Ronald Filler’s (LAS ’70) philanthropic and mentoring spirit, known on campus as the “Filler Effect”, has touched down again at the Cancer Center at Illinois – providing an annual scholarship to an undergraduate student in...
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...
Oct 6, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Sara Pedron Haba. Urbana, Ill. – Many Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers have been focusing on glioblastomas, a type of brain cancer that is very aggressive, invasive, and incurable. Sara Pedron Haba, a research assistant professor in chemical and...
Sep 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Representative computational PS-OCT images from cancer, adipose, and stroma tissue specimens, compared with the real PS-OCT images. Source: npj Digital Medicine Urbana, Ill. – Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University...
Jun 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Stephen Boppart Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Cancer Center at Illinois employed a specialized microscopy technique, two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, to image and biochemically...
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...
Apr 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Comparisons of high definition and standard definition infrared imaging for digital histopathology. Urbana, Ill. – Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be...
Mar 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A fast, low-cost technique to see and count viruses or proteins from a sample in real time, without any chemicals or dyes, could underpin a new class of devices for rapid diagnostics and viral load monitoring, including HIV and the virus that causes...
Feb 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Four in ten* patients screened for breast cancer are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis due to the presence of dense breast tissue. Traditional mammography cannot reliably diagnose the disease in these patients, sometimes even with the help of supplemental screening....
Aug 31, 2020 | Cancer Center News
When assessing whether or not a tumor is benign or cancerous, a needle biopsy is the usual method of diagnosis. The tissue can then be analyzed to determine what mutations are present that are specific to the patient. Because this method is invasive, it’s generally...
Apr 9, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Brian Cunningham, recently named a Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow, is applying his knowledge in cancer diagnostics (detecting nucleic molecules in blood to diagnose the stage or type of cancer) to develop point-of-care detection systems using the capabilities of...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using a new application of an existing imaging technique that may help detect tumors in humans. The technique, super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy, was used to visualize the distribution...
