Jul 19, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Henry Deap, undergraduate studying cell biologyCancer Scholars Program, 2019 Cohort Hometown: Mundelein, Ill. Do you have past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? Yes, I worked with Gregory Karczmar, PhD, Professor of Radiology at the University of...
Jul 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hailey Knox, ChemistryTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program, 2018 Cohort Where are you working now? I am currently working as a postdoctoral scholar with Professors Dennis Dougherty and Henry Lester at the California Institute of Technology. What are you currently...
Jun 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Illinois associate professor in food science and human nutrition. Urbana, Ill. –When a scientist gets the keys to run their first lab, they soon realize that they must also become experts in human resources, networking, and...
Mar 3, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hyunjoon Kong, Robert W. Schafer professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, approaches cancer research from a perspective that integrates cell engineering and biomaterials. The Kong research team has been working with Georgia Tech University and Massachusetts...
Dec 7, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Drashti Sikligar, Bioengineering JuniorCancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Hoffman Estates Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
Nov 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Six professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bioengineering professor Rohit Bhargava; evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell;...
Nov 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Current cancer treatments include drugs that target standard protein synthesis in cells, which can kill cancer cells, but also targets healthy cells. To address this issue, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and professor of biophysics and quantitative biology,...
Nov 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Vongai Tizora, Bioengineering Junior Cancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Forsyth, Illinois Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
Oct 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate in the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Boudreau’s research has centered around a novel...
Oct 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, CCIL Ambassadors
As a large research institution, the University of Illinois offers its students the opportunity to work within faculty labs as well as spread awareness for the research happening blocks away from their dorms. The Cancer Center at Illinois Ambassador program enables...
Sep 28, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Erik Nelson, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Illinois graduate student, Liqian Ma, recently discovered that a cholesterol metabolite hijacks immune cells to derail the body’s natural defense...
Sep 21, 2020 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Congratulations to Carlos Renteria, a graduate student in the Cancer Center at Illinois’ Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) training program, who has been awarded a new traineeship with The University of Illinois’ Research Training Program in Environmental...