Apr 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
A new paper published by a team that includes several Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers demonstrates a link between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and growth of testicular germ cell tumors. PFAS chemicals, sometimes called forever...
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...
Oct 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of numerical breast phantoms. Urbana, Ill. – When new medical imaging systems are designed, they must undergo robust assessments and refinements to ensure that the images they produce contain as much diagnostically-relevant information as possible. Until now,...
May 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Zhi-Pei Liang (right), a faculty researcher at the Beckman Institute, received the Gold Medal from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine at a ceremony in London on Monday, May 9, 2022. Pictured left: Fernando Calamante, the President of the...
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...
Apr 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The prevalence of health misinformation can influence public opinion, partially due to poor health literacy, and influence risk perception regarding treatments, screening, vaccinations, and cancer. Jessie Chin, assistant professor at the School of...
Jul 30, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, Carle gynecological oncologist, are taking the first step toward a technological discovery by proving the concept. It’s happening in the controlled environment of the Bhargava lab, where tissue samples from patients...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using a new application of an existing imaging technique that may help detect tumors in humans. The technique, super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy, was used to visualize the distribution...
Aug 8, 2018 | Cancer Center News
A newly developed tool combines different types of genomic data to predict patients’ specific responses to therapeutic drugs. The application, developed by the University of Illinois and the Mayo Clinic, is based on information contained in human genomes and enables...
