Feb 15, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Electrical and computer engineering professor Kiruba Haran, left, and mechanical science and engineering professor Taher Saif are newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering. Image by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two University of Illinois...
Feb 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), in concert with the academic units listed below, has recruited several senior cancer-focused researchers to build upon and expand the institute’s impressive foundation of expertise. These investigators will enhance the CCIL’s...
Nov 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The interdisciplinary Beckman Institute team included (from left): Anirudha Rao, a graduate student in bioengineering; Scott Robinson, the former Beckman Institute Microscopy Suite Manager; Seth Kenkel, a postdoctoral research associate; Rohit Bhargava, director of...
Sep 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Top, from left to right: Martin Burke, Christopher Gaulke, and Catherine Murphy.Bottom, from left to right: Joaquín Rodríguez López, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Kai Zhang. The Cancer Center at Illinois is proud to announce the selection of nine interdisciplinary cancer...
Jan 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of Bashar Emon Bashar Emon, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, is using the funding from his Cancer Center at Illinois Graduate Cancer Scholarship Program to focus on characterizing matrix remodeling in the cancer microenvironment. The rigidity of the cancer...
Dec 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hyunjoon (Joon) Kong. Urbana, Ill. – Hyunjoon (Joon) Kong, Cancer Center at Illinois researcher and a leader in research on multi-cellular engineered living cell systems, has been named the Robert W. Schaefer Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular...
Mar 25, 2021 | Student Spotlight
Amir Moghaddam, Department of Mechanical Science and EngineeringTissue Microenvironment Program, 2020 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I received my bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran and my...
Oct 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tissues and cells in the human body are subjected to a constant push and pull – strained by other cells, blood pressure and fluid flow, to name a few. The type and direction of the force on a cell alters gene expression by stretching different...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Graduate Program kicks off its 2020 – 2021 academic year with nine new trainees dedicated to advancing biomedical science and healthcare. “With every new cohort of TiMe trainees comes the...
Mar 27, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A team led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering and Carle Health has produced a prototype emergency ventilator to help address the expected surge in the need for respiratory care associated with the COVID-19 pandemic....
Jun 4, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of professor Taher Saif. MechSE professor Taher Saif has been named the 2018 recipient of the Warner T. Koiter Medal from ASME. He is the first winner of this award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The Executive Committee of the ASME...
May 14, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Illinois mechanical sciences and engineering professor Ning Wang, left, graduate students Erfan Mohagheghian and Gaurav Chaudhary, and postdoctoral researchers Junwei Chen and Jian Sun are measuring mechanical forces within cells to help unlock some of the mysteries...
