Mar 27, 2024 | Cancer Center News
On her first day of fourth grade, Myra Kamdar marched directly to her new teacher, skipped introductions, and confidently proclaimed she was going to be a doctor one day. Reminiscing on this moment, which her teacher still won’t let her live down today, Myra can’t...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In 2018 Qianying Zuo won the Kathryn Van Akken Burns Memorial Fund Merit Award while working in the lab of the CCIL’s Associate Director of Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak Erdogan. As a graduate student in Madak Erdogan’s...
Mar 19, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Ege Gungor Onal joined the CCIL’s Cancer Scholars Program (CSP) as a freshman in 2018. Inspired by his CSP classes, he joined CCIL Program Leader Brian Cunningham’s lab to perform cancer diagnostics research which included developing a cancer liquid biopsy...
Mar 6, 2024 | Administration, Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
If your social media algorithm points you toward STEM, bioengineering, or cancer research, there’s a chance you might come across The Mad Bioengineer on TikTok. You might even be one of his 33,000 followers. With contagious curiosity, infectious demeanor, and a...
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...
Mar 2, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – When Ron Filler (LAS ’70) learned about the groundbreaking research conducted at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), he knew he needed to bring his “Filler Effect” – the spirit of giving and mentorship – to support...
Feb 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki (left) and Michael Oelze (right). Urbana, Ill. – Eight faculty from The Grainger College of Engineering have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation Professor appointments. The new faculty deliver on Carle Illinois’...
Nov 13, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Animal Sciences Department Head Rod Johnson, Keith W. and Sara M. Kelley Endowed Professor of Immunophysiology H. Rex Gaskins, Dean of the College of ACES Kim Kidwell, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs William Bernhard. H. Rex Gaskins, CCIL’s Associate...
Apr 14, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Joy Chen, Robert Forsyth, Ngozi Amadikwu, Jarron Roy, and Hailan Shanbhag Several alumni from the researcHStart program met with Paloma Pearson, program manager for the Illinois campus, on Friday, April 12 at Caffé Bene in Champaign. Joy Chen, Robert Forsyth, Ngozi...
Mar 20, 2019 | Cancer Center News
TiMe students at Beckman Open House Students from the Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) program participated in the Beckman Institute’s biannual open house. Visitors had the opportunity to explore the research occurring at Beckman in conjunction with the annual...
Jun 4, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of professor Taher Saif. MechSE professor Taher Saif has been named the 2018 recipient of the Warner T. Koiter Medal from ASME. He is the first winner of this award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The Executive Committee of the ASME...
Apr 19, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Emily Chen. Emily Chen was selected as one of the Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) for the 2018-2019 academic year. This program is designed to facilitate the training for the next generation of great engineering professors. Engineering at Illinois is...
