Jun 23, 2022 | Cancer Center News
MYC promotes POLR3G gene expression, shaping Pol III identity and downstream transcription activities associated with cell proliferation. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University School of Medicine have...
May 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla has been named among the most influential bioengineering researchers globally by a leading journal in the field: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, which the American Chemical...
Apr 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2022, including Illinois chemistry faculty member Jefferson Chan. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers...
Apr 29, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Front row, from left: John Witt, Margaret Witt, Venetria Patton, Doug Mitchell, Catherine Murphy, Greg Girolami; and back row, from left, Bill Bernhard and Wilfred van der Donk. Known for ground-breaking research blending chemical and biological approaches to address...
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 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...
Feb 22, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The research team included, from left, undergraduate student Darya Asoudegi; graduate students Neha Chetlangia and Fredy Kurniawan; and Supriya Prasanth, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the U. of I. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. Embryonic stem cells...
Oct 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Nicholas Wu – professor of biochemistry; recipient of NIH New Innovator Award Urbana, Ill. – Nicholas Wu, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award,...
Oct 6, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Robert W. Schaefer Professor Brendan Harley has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Class of 2021 Fellows. This distinction recognizes members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical...
Sep 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Sylvia Crowder, PhD, Food Science and Human NutritionCancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR ) 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? I am a T-32 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior at Moffitt Cancer Center in...
Aug 31, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Stephen Sligar, a Cancer Center at Illinois researcher and faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected as a Vallee Visiting Professor to pursue collaborative research at the University of Oxford, focusing on protein-protein and...
Aug 25, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Urbana, Ill. – Joy Chen, a former Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) student, is attending the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Joint Bioengineering Program this fall, where she hopes to continue...