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
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Director Rohit Bhargava’s Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory has developed a novel infrared microscopy system that dramatically improves the speed and quality of chemical imaging. The team’s microscope holds the potential to...
Oct 5, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Jeffrey Moore, Susan Martinis, CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava, John Coleman, Philippe Geubelle, and Mark Anastasio Cancer Center at Illinois Director Rohit Bhargava was officially named the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering during an investiture...
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 29, 2023 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is reshaping its core leadership team. These changes reflect the institute’s continued evolution and build upon its history of research and education excellence. The new positions also underscore the CCIL’s strong...
Jul 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
High schoolers from across the country toured the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) this week and got a glimpse into some of the projects developed by CCIL members and their research teams. Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs Jacki Thompson Rand and Native...
Jul 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Yun-Sheng Chen (left) and Huanyu Qiao The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) welcomes two new members to our growing community of cancer researchers. Yun-Sheng Chen joins the CCIL as an associate member in the Cancer Measurement...
Jun 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Postdoctoral researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and CCIL researcher Viktor Gruev, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led a team of researchers developing new cancer imaging agents that can light up two cancer biomarkers when lit by one fluorescent...