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...
Jan 30, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Elisabeth Martin, Bioengineering sophomore from Dunlap, Ill., recently received a $2,000 research support grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award, one of only 25 given to U of I undergraduates...
Jan 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Stephen Boppart, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, is using the Biophotonics Imaging Lab at the Beckman Institute to develop a system to better visualize breast cancer cells and extracellular vesicles. “We can acquire information about the structure and metabolism...
Mar 28, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Andrew Smith. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers recently received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new assay technology that could determine the effectiveness of cancer drug treatments and aid...
Feb 26, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz and Dr. Kesh Kesavadas. 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...
Jan 24, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brian Cunningham Bioengineering Professor Brian Cunningham is one of 13 Illinois faculty members named as Center for Advanced Study (CAS) associates for 2018-2019. CAS associates are granted one semester of teaching release time to pursue an individual...