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CCIL Members Awarded DOD Funding to Pursue Kidney Cancer Immunotherapy

CCIL Members Awarded DOD Funding to Pursue Kidney Cancer Immunotherapy

May 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Hua Wang and Rohit Bhargava, in collaboration with clinical partners Dr. Kanishka Sircar and Dr. Jose Karam at MD Anderson, received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) Congressional Directed...
Hacking Cell Communication: Researchers Develop Promising Cancer Vaccine

Hacking Cell Communication: Researchers Develop Promising Cancer Vaccine

Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Hua Wang and Ph.D. student Rimsha Bhatta Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang published new research with promising developments for the future of personalized cancer therapeutics. In a Nature Communications...
Clinical Trial Shows Promise for Dogs with Aggressive Malignant Melanoma

Clinical Trial Shows Promise for Dogs with Aggressive Malignant Melanoma

Dec 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News

  Veterinary comparative oncology researchers are exploring a new immunotherapy option for patients with aggressive malignant melanoma. The University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital team includes members of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). In a...
Collaborative Team of BIOE Faculty Starts New Joint Center for mRNA Delivery and Cancer Immunotherapy

Collaborative Team of BIOE Faculty Starts New Joint Center for mRNA Delivery and Cancer Immunotherapy

Oct 23, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Illinois bioengineering faculty members are playing key roles in a new joint center for mRNA delivery and cancer immunotherapy (CCIT). This new center is co-lead by Professor Shuming Nie at UIUC and by Professor Youqing Shen at Zhejiang University (ZJU). It involves a...
Research Never Sleeps: Building the Future Means Working Past Dusk for Graduate Student Researchers

Research Never Sleeps: Building the Future Means Working Past Dusk for Graduate Student Researchers

Oct 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Rimsha Bhatta, doctoral student in CCIL member Hua Wang’s lab, was featured in a recent Grainger Engineering article that explores the long hours and sleepless nights it takes to pursue meaningful research that will impact future generations. Read the story...
Metabolic Glycan Labeling Approach Shows Promise for Improving Dendritic Cell Vaccines

Metabolic Glycan Labeling Approach Shows Promise for Improving Dendritic Cell Vaccines

Sep 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang and his research group are passionate about developing novel – but simple – solutions to not only improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies, but also to look ahead to clinical translation. In their recent...
Cancer Center at Illinois Announces 2023 Research Grant Recipients

Cancer Center at Illinois Announces 2023 Research Grant Recipients

Aug 24, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Sara Pedron Haba, Edward Roy, Chitra Subramanian, and Bo Wang The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) supports the most innovative ideas from Illinois faculty through grant programs that catalyze transdisciplinary cancer...
Team Identifies Key Driver of Cancer Cell Death Pathway That Activates Immune Cells

Team Identifies Key Driver of Cancer Cell Death Pathway That Activates Immune Cells

Jul 31, 2023 | Cancer Center News

The team included, from left, research scientist Chengjian Mao, graduate student Xinyi Dai, biochemistry professor David Shapiro, graduate student Junyao Zhu and molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson. Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —...
Research Collaboration Turns Up the Heat in Cancer Immunotherapy

Research Collaboration Turns Up the Heat in Cancer Immunotherapy

Jul 27, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) program leader Tim Fan, professor of veterinary medical science, is collaborating with former Illinois faculty member Dane Wittrup on an innovative cancer immunotherapy research project with client-owned pet dogs that have soft-tissue...
Interdisciplinary Team Develops Innovative Biomaterial to Recruit and Train Immune Cells for Cancer Treatment

Interdisciplinary Team Develops Innovative Biomaterial to Recruit and Train Immune Cells for Cancer Treatment

Jul 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Researchers in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang’s lab continue to pioneer novel technologies that enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. The latest innovation, detailed in a newly published paper in Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering,...
Cancer researchers awarded NIH grant to explore immunotherapy innovations

Cancer researchers awarded NIH grant to explore immunotherapy innovations

Mar 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News

CCIL researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson.   Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers Hua Wang and Erik Nelson are the recipients of a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to explore new biomedical technologies for improved cancer immunotherapy....
New biomaterial provides a promising step forward for T cell therapy and cancer patients

New biomaterial provides a promising step forward for T cell therapy and cancer patients

Mar 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Hua Wang is pictured here with graduate student Rimsha Bhatta, on his left, who has worked in Wang’s research lab since 2020. An Illinois research team led by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist Hua Wang, a professor of...
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