Oct 9, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 5 minutesKeywords: digital resolution biosensing, cancer biomarker, antibody detection, dynamic assay, micro RNA, microscopy Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham has developed two new biomarker detection instruments with the...
Sep 7, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Quantum dots linking to a photonic crystal surface during detection of microRNA biomarkers. Urbana, Ill. – Despite recent years’ dramatic improvements in cancer treatment, cancer remains second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death for Americans. But a...
Jul 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers with a prototype image-guided surgical system (standing third from left is Professor Viktor Gruev and fourth from left is Professor Shuming Nie). Urbana, Ill. – An innovative camera technology, inspired by the mantis shrimp’s visual...
Apr 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Andrew Smith (left) and Kelly Swanson (right). To accurately diagnose and treat diseases, doctors and researchers need to see inside bodies. Medical imaging tools have come a long way since the humble x-ray, but most existing tools remain too coarse to quantify...
Mar 16, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brian Cunningham Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois and Mount Sinai researchers have developed a low-cost, portable, point-of-care technology capable of diagnosing early-stage liver cancer within 30 minutes. The study, led by Brian Cunningham, Cancer...
Feb 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Computer rendering of the magnetic activate capture+digital counting approach for accelerated digital biodetection. Urbana, Ill. – The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive...
Jan 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Rohit Bhargava. Urbana, Ill. – The Fighting Illini are also fighting cancer by supporting and promoting awareness of the Cancer Center at Illinois, a research unit and a community of experts in cancer biology and technology that seeks to address gaps in...
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...
Dec 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory at the University of Illinois focuses on chemical imaging to improve our understanding of the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. Led by the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and founder...
Nov 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Jefferson Chan and Melissa Lucero. Urbana, Ill. – Lung cancer can be elusive to spot and difficult to treat because the markers for it are found in other tissues, too. Now, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a finely tuned molecular...
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...
Jul 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, Carle oncologist and surgeon Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers, in collaboration with clinicians at Carle Foundation Hospital, are working together to improve colorectal cancer screening...
