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...
Nov 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, bright fluorescent cyanine dyes have been used in a variety of medical procedures, like identifying the sentinel lymph nodes where cancer cells might spread or identifying cancerous tumors in fluorescence-guided surgery. Though widely...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Mohammed El-Kebir. Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence is often employed in the field of cancer genomics, where bits of DNA sequencing data must be identified and further analyzed with statistical, evolutional, and probabilistic models. “Off-the-shelf”...
Aug 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – When Auinash Kalsotra, associate professor and the William C. Rose Scholar of biochemistry, attended college at Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he knew he wanted to pursue an entrepreneurial career inspired by his family members....
Apr 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hee-Sun Han, Assistant Professor and Mark A. Pytosh Scholar Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry, is using her expertise in optics, chemistry, and computational biology to tackle cancer. Han...
Mar 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu was awarded a $250K CCIL Seed Grant in support of his research of the characterization of oncogenic noncoding RNAs in breast cancer progression and metastasis. A year...
Jul 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members and campus researchers are encouraged to attend the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) lab’s online webinar on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. to learn more about the NanoString nCounter SPRINT Profiler, a shared resource for campus users available starting in...
Feb 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Announcement originally from Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab. Brian Cunningham, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, and CCIL Program 1 co-leader, is expanding the Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory’s efforts into new directions,...
Jan 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Interview originally from Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute. CCIL Member Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, assistant professor of food and science and human nutrition, is the leader of the Women’s Health and Nutrition Lab, where she is currently focusing on...
Jan 25, 2019 | Cancer Center News
CRAG Members at Illini Basketball Game The Cancer Center at Illinois and the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics teamed up on Wednesday night to help draw awareness to cancer, and while the men’s Basketball Team ultimately lost to the Wisconsin Badgers, the Cancer...
Mar 29, 2018 | Cancer Center News
The Computational Genomics workshop co-sponsored by the Cancer Center, Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on Friday, March 2, 2018 was a great success. Over 70 participants from departments across campus attended to hear...
