Oct 9, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 5 minutesKeywords: digital resolution biosensing, cancer biomarker, antibody detection, dynamic assay, micro RNA, microscopy Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham has developed two new biomarker detection instruments with the...
May 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News, CCIL Shared Resources
The Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) Facility is the largest space dedicated to cancer research at Illinois The TEP is a campus shared resource supporting CCIL members and all other researchers at the university, as well...
Apr 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News, CCIL Shared Resources
The Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) facility, a Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) shared resource, is here to accelerate your discoveries with the addition of a new instrument for nanoparticle synthesis. The PreciGenome NanoGenerator™ Flex-M utilizes a...
Mar 6, 2024 | Administration, Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
If your social media algorithm points you toward STEM, bioengineering, or cancer research, there’s a chance you might come across The Mad Bioengineer on TikTok. You might even be one of his 33,000 followers. With contagious curiosity, infectious demeanor, and 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...
Jul 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News
High schoolers from across the country toured the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) this week and got a glimpse into some of the projects developed by CCIL members and their research teams. Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs Jacki Thompson Rand and Native...
Jun 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Postdoctoral researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and CCIL researcher Viktor Gruev, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led a team of researchers developing new cancer imaging agents that can light up two cancer biomarkers when lit by one fluorescent...
May 22, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Researchers, from left, Matthew Confer, Scott Dubowsky, and Jian Wang combined their expertise in chemistry and plasma engineering to demonstrate a metal-catalyst-free approach to form carbon-carbon bonds. An Illinois interdisciplinary research team develops...
May 18, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Brian Cunningham, left, is joined by research team members Priyash Barya, Skye Shepherd, and Yanyu Xiong Researchers from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Program Leader Brian Cunningham’s lab in collaboration with researchers at Washington University have...
Nov 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, bright fluorescent cyanine dyes have been used in a variety of medical procedures, like identifying the sentinel lymph nodes where cancer cells might spread or identifying cancerous tumors in fluorescence-guided surgery. Though widely...
Jun 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News
From left to right: Ruiyang Xue, Shuming Nie, Jamie Jones, and Indrajit Srivastava. Urbana, Ill. – Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) gold nanoparticles are an ultrasensitive tool used by researchers for in-vitro medical diagnostics and for providing crucial...
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...