Sep 4, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
For bioengineering student Leah Ju, Illinois runs in the family. Her parents met at the university when they were students, and both Leah and her brother decided to follow in their footsteps. Having just returned for her senior year, Leah is one step closer to joining...
Aug 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Six high school students have a newfound understanding of cancer research after completing the Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) ResearcHStart program. ResearcHStart is an intensive cancer research experience and partnership between the University of Chicago,...
Jun 27, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) Training Program published a comprehensive review article outlining important principles and engineering technologies to study the TiME. The recent publication represents a culmination of the hard...
Jun 25, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) recently hosted students visiting from Wilbur Wright College’s Transfer Pathways Program on June 11. The Transfer Pathways Program partners with the Grainger College of Engineering to provide students with guaranteed admission to...
May 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) continues to grow with the expansion of administrative personnel. In 2024, the CCIL has hired the following team members to support the center’s research, education, and outreach efforts. Cheryl CasimiroBusiness and Finance...
Apr 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) provided an opportunity for students to share their research during its annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the Beckman Institute. Students in CCIL programs or working in CCIL member labs presented posters on topics...
Apr 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign each year presents Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction to exceptional faculty and staff members, graduate teaching assistants and advisors campuswide. This year’s recipients are being honored at a...
Apr 4, 2024 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Nearly 60 people attended the 2024 Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Day Symposium on April 3 at the Beckman Institute. The TiME Training Program was created by Rohit Bhargava and Rex Gaskins with the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and is a university-wide training...
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...
Jan 22, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Cindy Mu is a junior at Illinois, double majoring in chemistry and molecular & cellular Biology During her junior year at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), Cindy Mu traveled from Aurora, Illinois to Northwestern University every Wednesday to...
