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 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Graduate Student Mebin George and CCIL Member Viktor Gruev with their novel endoscopic imaging system. Researchers from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) traveled the rewarding journey from benchtop to the operating room, observing their novel technology in the...
Apr 19, 2023 | Cancer Center News
A generous gift from Debra Cohen will support student scholars and cancer researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). The “Ira R. and Debra J. Cohen Cancer Center at Illinois Scholarship Fund” and the “Ira R. and Debra J. Cohen Cancer...
Mar 30, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Leonardo Molina at the 2023 TiME Day Symposium. Leonardo (Leo) Molina, a Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) Training Program member and graduate student in animal sciences, was recently awarded an NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual...
Mar 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
CCIL researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson. Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson are the recipients of a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to explore new biomedical technologies for improved cancer immunotherapy....
Feb 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Wenyan Mei, professor of comparative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the first cohort of CCIL’s JumpStart Program. In an effort to catalyze more cancer research projects among Illinois...
Jun 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Sam Corley, undergraduate, Computer Science Urbana, Ill. — The Illini 4000 is a non-profit organization whose members are University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students that are documenting the American cancer experience through The Portraits Project, raising funds...
Dec 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hua Wang. Urbana, Ill. – Funded by the Faculty Early Career Development Program, CCIL researcher and assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Hua Wang, was recognized as a promising academic. Wang will receive a five-year, $700,000 award...
Aug 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
A microscopic image of the innovative biomaterial being developed from 3D-printed mesh combined with a collagen-based scaffold to regenerate large portions of the skull. Image credit: Marley Dewey, a former member of the Harley lab. Urbana, Ill. – A new research...
Aug 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – OSF HealthCare marked a new era on August 17 with the official groundbreaking for the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute, a 180,000-square-foot building on the campus of OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. “For 144 years, it has been our...
Jul 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – As a Johnson & Johnson 2021 WISTEM2D Scholar Award winner, chemistry professor Hee-Sun Han will be developing a new imaging-based methodology to study RNA-RNA interactions in breast cancer. Each year, the company selects six world-leading female...