Feb 22, 2022 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Opeyemi Arogundade. Urbana, Ill. – Opeyemi Arogundade, Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) program trainee and student in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist, Andrew Smith’s, lab, is applying his academic background in physics to cancer research and...
Feb 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Gabriel Popescu, Mark A. Anastasio, Chenfei Hu Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live-cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can indicate whether a cancer...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Ronald Filler, LAS’ 70. Urbana, Ill. – Ronald Filler’s (LAS ’70) philanthropic and mentoring spirit, known on campus as the “Filler Effect”, has touched down again at the Cancer Center at Illinois – providing an annual scholarship to an undergraduate student in...
Dec 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory at the University of Illinois focuses on chemical imaging to improve our understanding of the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. Led by the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and founder...
Nov 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Rong “Ronny” Guo, a student in CCIL researcher Zhi-Pei Liang’s lab and 2021 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellow studying electrical and computer engineering, took home first prize at the annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Student...
Nov 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Jefferson Chan and Melissa Lucero. Urbana, Ill. – Lung cancer can be elusive to spot and difficult to treat because the markers for it are found in other tissues, too. Now, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a finely tuned molecular...
Oct 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News
An artistic representation of gold nanoparticles on a photonic crystal surface. Created by Janet Kirker. Urbana, Ill. – For several years the Cunningham group has been developing microscopes that use photonic crystal biosensors—nanostructured glass surfaces that...
Oct 18, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Michael Oelze. Urbana, Ill. – A Carle Illinois College of Medicine research team is developing a new device that will improve the management of breast cancer using ultrasound imaging. The team has innovated new radiological clips that will increase...
Oct 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photoacoustic images of mouse livers, comparing a mouse with Wilson’s disease (left) to a healthy mouse (right). A brighter spot indicates higher concentrations of copper (I) ions localized in that region. Urbana, Ill. – Biopsies are one of the most common...
Oct 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
(L to R) Mark Anastasio, Stephen Boppart, Joseph Irudayaraj Urbana, Ill. – The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) welcomed and elected 26 Fellows for the Class of 2021. The IAMBE, affiliated with the International Federation of Medical...
Sep 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms that teach computers to perform tasks, can efficiently identify patterns and relationships in large amounts of data. These abilities have made AI techniques and tools indispensable in the cancer research...
Aug 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers developed a method that makes membrane-bound receptors reactive to light, triggering the Wnt pathway, important in embryonic development and cancer. Image courtesy of Kai Zhang. Urbana, Ill. – Blue light is illuminating a new understanding of a...