Oct 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Images showing coronal, axial, and sagittal speed of sound images of the breast, taken with the QT Imaging scanner. Urbana, Ill. – A Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher has been awarded a multi-million-dollar federal grant to develop an advanced...
Sep 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researchers Hua Wang, left, and Shuming Nie, pictured at Beckman Institute, will take their collaboration in cancer research to the next level with their 2.26 M NCI grant. (Photo by Heather Coit) Urbana, Ill. – Hua Wang (Ph.D.’16, MatSE), a...
Sep 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Top, from left to right: Martin Burke, Christopher Gaulke, and Catherine Murphy.Bottom, from left to right: Joaquín Rodríguez López, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Kai Zhang. The Cancer Center at Illinois is proud to announce the selection of nine interdisciplinary cancer...
Jul 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers with a prototype image-guided surgical system (standing third from left is Professor Viktor Gruev and fourth from left is Professor Shuming Nie). Urbana, Ill. – An innovative camera technology, inspired by the mantis shrimp’s visual...
Apr 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2022, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Jefferson Chan. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers...
Mar 2, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Ling-Jian Meng. Urbana, Ill. – Radiopharmaceutical therapy is an emerging type of radiation therapy with great potential for patients with metastatic cancer, who have diminished prospects for long-term survival. This treatment uses alpha-particles...
Oct 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Nicholas Wu – professor of biochemistry; recipient of NIH New Innovator Award Urbana, Ill. – Nicholas Wu, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator 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...
Jun 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Top row, left to right: M. Taher Saif, Shannon Sirk, Kimberly Selting; Middle row: Rashid Bashir, Cecilia Leal, Jason Ridlon; Bottom row: Supriya Prasanth, Hua Li, Mohammed El-Kebir Nine interdisciplinary projects designed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
May 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Deep Mutational Scanning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Cancer Using Transfer Learning Approaches” Research team includes: Erik Procko, assistant professor in biochemistry What led to your exploration of cancer? Cancer is one of...
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...
Feb 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Left – Individual cells invade away from a central tumor spheroid and into the surrounding vascularized microenvironment. Tumor cells are shown in red and vasculature is shown in green. Right – Individual tumor cells (red) interact closely with surrounding vasculature...
