Jan 23, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Taher Saif, a member of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and professor of mechanical science and engineering, received CCIL seed grant funding to enhance the treatment for pancreatic cancer through his research. CCIL seed grants provide funding that enables...
Dec 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minKeywords: JumpStart, funding, cancer research Where others see barriers, the JumpStart Program at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) sees new frontiers. By providing funding, mentorship, and access to a dynamic research community, JumpStart empowers...
Dec 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minKeywords: BEAT Cancer, funding, chemical imaging, AI, pathology “New technology should be used to do new things,” says Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Director Rohit Bhargava, the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering. This sentiment has guided...
Dec 4, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) recently embarked on the first year of its Breakthrough and Advanced Treatment of (BEAT) Cancer Research Initiative—a collaboration with the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute (OSF) in Peoria, IL. This project aims to facilitate an...
Dec 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hee-Sun Han has developed an Intracellular Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Toolkit (InSTAnT) that allows researchers to look at subcellular patterns. The research findings are published in Nature Communications. After intensive...
Nov 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, metastatic breast cancer The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Seed Grant program awarded a promising study of breast cancer metastasis led by Ashok Samuel, a CCIL member and a faculty member in the Department of...
Oct 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Read time: 3 minutesKeywords: immunotherapy, cancer vaccine, CAR T cell therapy, tumor antigens, dendritic cells, mRNA, grant The American Cancer Society (ACS) awarded Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang a Research Scholar Grant to investigate a novel...
Aug 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
What if surgeries fixed problems flawlessly, the first time? A large, multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Mayo Clinic, along with industry and clinical collaborators, will work to find solutions....
Jul 19, 2024 | Cancer Center News
“To cure, prevent, and manage every human disease by the end of the century”—this is the bold vision of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Launched in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CZI aims to build a “better future for everyone” by addressing some of...
May 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Hua Wang and Rohit Bhargava, in collaboration with clinical partners Dr. Kanishka Sircar and Dr. Jose Karam at MD Anderson, received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) Congressional Directed...
Feb 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
From left to right, Prof. Borislav Kondov, Viktor Gruev, and ZHongmin Zhu, shown here in the operating room at the University Clinic Hospital in North Macedonia along with the NSF-funded research team’s imaging instrument which allows for evaluation of ex vivo...
Jan 25, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Jun Song, Founder Professor in Physics Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Jun Song received a $319,585 award in January as part of his multi-year R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his project...
