May 18, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Brian Cunningham, left, is joined by research team members Priyash Barya, Skye Shepherd, and Yanyu Xiong Researchers from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham’s lab in collaboration with researchers at Washington University have...
Feb 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois program leader Brian Cunningham is joined by research project members, from the left, Xiaojing Wang and Skye Shepherd, who were co-first authors on the teams’ recently published research. Team members not pictured include: Nantao Li,...
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...
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...
Sep 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms that teach computers to perform tasks, can efficiently identify patterns and relationships in large amounts of data. These abilities have made AI techniques and tools indispensable in the cancer research...
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...