Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
This year proved to be one of success and growth for the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Below you’ll find 10 of the year’s biggest moments in research, education, and community engagement, meet our new members, and have the chance to dive deeper into...
Dec 6, 2023 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Janet Sorrells is a Ph.D. student in bioengineering in Professor Stephen Boppart’s lab In the summer of 2017, Janet Sorrells arrived at the University of Illinois to perform undergraduate research in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Stephen Boppart’s...
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...
Sep 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Principal investigators Martin Gruebele (left) and Zan Luthey-Schulten (Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Researchers, policymakers, and Minecraft players can look forward to the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s...
Mar 8, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Optica recently announced that Brian T. Cunningham, CCIL Program Leader and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award. Established in 2012, the Feld Biophotonics Award...
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...
Oct 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Mark Anastasio, a professor of bioengineering; Stephen Boppart, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; and Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering, will use funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging...
Apr 26, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Sourya Sengupta, Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate StudentTiME Program Trainee, 2021 Cohort What does your educational path look like? What did you study in your undergraduate? I completed my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Jadavpur...
Apr 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Andrew Smith (left) and Kelly Swanson (right). To accurately diagnose and treat diseases, doctors and researchers need to see inside bodies. Medical imaging tools have come a long way since the humble x-ray, but most existing tools remain too coarse to quantify...
Apr 6, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Rishee Iyer, Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate StudentTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program, 2022 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I did my undergraduate degree in India in electrical and electronics engineering, but I wasn’t too sure...
Mar 16, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Brian Cunningham Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois and Mount Sinai researchers have developed a low-cost, portable, point-of-care technology capable of diagnosing early-stage liver cancer within 30 minutes. The study, led by Brian Cunningham, Cancer...
Feb 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Computer rendering of the magnetic activate capture+digital counting approach for accelerated digital biodetection. Urbana, Ill. – The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive...
