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...
Oct 7, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Department of Defense today announced awards totaling $43 million to 112 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The grants will support the purchase of major equipment at 64 institutions across 28 states in...
Jul 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News
It was the early 1980s. At the time, glioblastoma patients survived on average for only 10-11 months. Four decades later, the life expectancy has only marginally improved by a few months. For one team of scientists, these aren’t just statistics but family...
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 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team, from left, Kim Selting, Sara Pedron-Haba, and Catherine Best-Popescu, are recipients of grants from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation A $25,000 grant from the Cancer Center at...
Oct 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
A research team including bioengineering professors Frank Brooks and Hua Li, computer science professor David Forsyth and Bioengineering Department Head Mark Anastasio has been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project...
Sep 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Principal investigators Martin Gruebele (left) and Zan Luthey-Schulten (Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s...
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...
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 28, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Jonathan Sweedler, professor in chemistry and Cancer Center at Illinois researcher, is pictured here with graduate students, from the left, Blake Mirman and Seth Croslow. We recently sat down with Jonathan Sweedler, a research member with the Cancer Center at...
