Dec 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minKeywords: BEAT Cancer, funding, chemical imaging, AI, pathology “New technology should be used to do new things,” says Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Director Rohit Bhargava, the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering. This sentiment has guided...
Oct 25, 2023 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
When Kianoush (Kia) Falahkheirkhah came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the fall of 2016, he wasn’t too sure about America. “Growing up in Tehran, I was familiar with life in a big city surrounded by mountains. But here it was very different in a...
Oct 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Director Rohit Bhargava’s Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory has developed a novel infrared microscopy system that dramatically improves the speed and quality of chemical imaging. The team’s microscope holds the potential to...
Oct 5, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Jeffrey Moore, Susan Martinis, CCIL Director Rohit Bhargava, John Coleman, Philippe Geubelle, and Mark Anastasio Cancer Center at Illinois Director Rohit Bhargava was officially named the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering during an investiture...
Apr 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, Cancer Center at Illinois Director, is a Founder Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received a B. Tech. dual degree (Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New...
Jun 9, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Courtney Ketchum. Urbana, Ill. – When a patient battling blood cancer needs a bone marrow transplant, their chances of survival are very low unless a match is found. Unfortunately, the chance of an immediate familial match is only 30%. Courtney Ketchum, a...
Feb 19, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director and Founder Professor in Bioengineering, was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), this award...
Feb 15, 2020 | Cancer Center News
By adding infrared capability to the ubiquitous, standard optical microscope, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hope to bring cancer diagnosis into the digital era. Pairing infrared measurements with high-resolution optical images and...