Oct 9, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 5 minutesKeywords: digital resolution biosensing, cancer biomarker, antibody detection, dynamic assay, micro RNA, microscopy Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham has developed two new biomarker detection instruments with the...
Aug 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A collaborative team of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers is developing methods to improve magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) for mapping important metabolites in the tumor microenvironment in vivo. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI or MR...
Jul 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
When you’re studying a subject as complex as cancer, the most effective approach is often a multifaceted one. Bioengineering professor Wawrzyniec Dobrucki is leading an academically diverse team of researchers on a mission to help prevent and manage prostate cancer...
Jun 4, 2024 | Cancer Center News
On Thursday, May 9th, cancer centers across Big Ten universities held a notable gathering. Two members of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL): Timothy M. Fan and Viktor Gruev, led this month’s Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (CRC) Grand Rounds. Viktor Gruev is a...
May 20, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Graduate student Sourya Sengupta works in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Mark Anastasio’s research group, focusing on developing and training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to solve healthcare problems. As AI continues to be adopted in our everyday...
Apr 4, 2024 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Nearly 60 people attended the 2024 Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Day Symposium on April 3 at the Beckman Institute. The TiME Training Program was created by Rohit Bhargava and Rex Gaskins with the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and is a university-wide training...
Mar 21, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The age of AI is here. How can we develop the AI tools of tomorrow to positively benefit patient and survivor outcomes for all who battle cancer? This is the question fueling the work of several researchers at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Within the complex...
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...
Feb 1, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The first step to strong interdisciplinary science is state-of-the-art instrumentation and facilities that push the limits of what researchers can achieve. The Molecular Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, with support from...
Dec 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Janet Sorrells is a Ph.D. student in bioengineering in Professor Stephen Boppart’s lab In the summer of 2017, Janet Sorrells arrived at the University of Illinois to perform undergraduate research in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Stephen Boppart’s...
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...
Oct 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Researchers in CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava’s Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory (from left): Andres Orr, Rohit Bhargava, Matthew Confer, Rou-Jing Ho, Yen-Ting Liu, Ishaan Sharma, Kevin Yeh, and Kianoush Falahkheirkhah Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Director...
