Aug 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) named CCIL member Sara Pedron Haba to its Women in Cancer Research (WICR) Council for a three-year term. The council comprises 13 women and advises the AACR on issues facing female researchers. “It is a great...
Aug 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Sara Pedron Haba, Edward Roy, Chitra Subramanian, and Bo Wang The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) supports the most innovative ideas from Illinois faculty through grant programs that catalyze transdisciplinary cancer...
May 25, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois Student Organization outreach assistants Nina Soofi, Kevin Meier, and Brigitte Joyce at the Y on the Fly afterschool venue in Champaign, IL. The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomed a new STEM outreach partnership with the Stephens...
May 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL – Beckman Institute Fellows Alejandro De la Cadena and Zane Thornburg. In fall 2023, the Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows Program will welcome two Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) postdoctoral researchers to its inaugural class of CCIL – Beckman...
Apr 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Representatives from the Cancer Center at Illinois, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and OSF HealthCare gather at the BEAT Cancer Research Initiative kickoff. On March 30, the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and OSF HealthCare System held a kickoff reception at...
Mar 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Hua Wang is pictured here with graduate student Rimsha Bhatta, on his left, who has worked in Wang’s research lab since 2020. An Illinois research team led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist Hua Wang, a professor of...
Sep 14, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology hosted the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) Open House on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. The TEP Shared Resource is the largest space dedicated to cancer research on...
Aug 24, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Stephen G. Sligar has spent the last 40 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign applying his expertise in membrane proteins and his nanodisc technology to better understand biological pathways and address diseases including cancer. Urbana, Ill. – Stephen...
Jun 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Diwakar Shukla Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla is among 84 highly accomplished early-career engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based...
May 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla has been named among the most influential bioengineering researchers globally by a leading journal in the field: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, which the American Chemical...
Apr 26, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Sourya Sengupta, Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate StudentTiME Program Trainee, 2021 Cohort What does your educational path look like? What did you study in your undergraduate? I completed my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Jadavpur...
Apr 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk Technological advancements over the past few decades have laid the groundwork for the use of microbe-based drugs to treat diseases. Bioengineering professor Shannon Sirk and her lab are engineering human commensal microbes into living therapeutics,...