May 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla is among four early-career professors who have been recognized by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their...
May 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Deep Mutational Scanning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Cancer Using Transfer Learning Approaches” Research team includes: Erik Procko, assistant professor in biochemistry What led to your exploration of cancer? Cancer is one of...
Apr 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Removing the phosphate group from kinases can activate them, which can be problematic. LanCL adds glutathione to these kinases, after which they became deactivated. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers from the University of Illinois in collaboration with scientists at Oxford...
Apr 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Bioengineering Founder Professor Joseph Irudayaraj has been named a 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The RSC is an international not-for-profit organization connecting chemical scientists with each other, with other scientists, and...
Mar 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A fast, low-cost technique to see and count viruses or proteins from a sample in real time, without any chemicals or dyes, could underpin a new class of devices for rapid diagnostics and viral load monitoring, including HIV and the virus that causes...
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,...
Aug 4, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, scientists and health care providers are seeking ways to keep the coronavirus from infecting tissues once they’re exposed. A new study suggests luring the virus with a decoy – an engineered,...
Jul 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members and campus researchers are encouraged to attend the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) lab’s online webinar on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. to learn more about the NanoString nCounter SPRINT Profiler, a shared resource for campus users available starting in...
Jun 30, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A method known as CAR-T therapy has been used successfully in patients with blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. It modifies a patient’s own T-cells by adding a piece of an antibody that recognizes unique features on the surface of cancer...
Jun 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a new method to improve the detection ability of nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy. These improvements reduce the noise that is associated with the...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki, professor of bioengineering, and Auinash Kalsotra, professor of biochemistry, have published their research on myotonic dystrophy, which generates lethal heart dysfunctions. The researchers and their team genetically engineered mice to express the...
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Two grants will fund interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, including a look at how neurons and muscle cells communicate with each other and also to develop a drug delivery system for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease....
