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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. —...
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...
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,...
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....
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...