Sep 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Illini 4000 team was featured on WCIA in August, after riders finished their cross-country ride to fight cancer. The group raised more than $60,000 for cancer research and patient support services. The non-profit organization was founded in 2006 and is dedicated...
Aug 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
More than 4,000 miles, nearly two dozen states, and 11 weeks later, the 2024 Illini 4000 team has raised over $60,000 and arrived at the end of a long but fulfilling journey: a bike ride across America to fight cancer. The Illini 4000 is a non-profit organization...
Jun 13, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomed the Illini 4000 to Urbana on June 12. CCIL researchers and staff members, family and friends, cancer advocates, and the Prairie Dragon Paddlers celebrated the riders as they arrived at the Beckman Institute after spending...
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...
Feb 21, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Article originally from Grainger College of Engineering. Illinois students and alumni have banded together to bicycle across the country raising money and awareness for cancer research. This year, the Illini 4000 will begin in New York City on May 22nd and end in San...
Nov 2, 2019 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Sisi He, PhD Candidate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology TiMe 2016 CohortC*STAR 2017 Cohort What first led to your interest in cancer research? I studied Chemistry and Biochemistry at UW-Madison for my Bachelor’s degree. Afterward, I came here to pursue doctoral...
May 22, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Illini 4000 Team. A reception will be held on June 5 at 3 p.m. at the south entrance of the Beckman Institute to welcome the Illini 4000 team to the University as they bike across the United States to raise awareness of cancer and fundraise for cancer...
