Aug 19, 2025 | Cancer Center News
This summer, high school students from across Illinois traded their usual routines for lab coats, data sets, and problem solving. They spent eight weeks participating in researcHStart, an intensive cancer research program that allows high schoolers the opportunity to...
Aug 8, 2025 | Cancer Center News
High school students from all sites of the ResearcHStart program spent a day on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus shortly before wrapping up their summer of learning. ResearcHStart is an intensive cancer research experience and partnership between the...
Aug 8, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Six high school students have a newfound understanding of cancer research after completing the Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) ResearcHStart program. ResearcHStart is an intensive cancer research experience and partnership between the University of Chicago,...
Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
This year proved to be one of success and growth for the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Below you’ll find 10 of the year’s biggest moments in research, education, and community engagement, meet our new members, and have the chance to dive deeper into...
Aug 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Students from Central Illinois and the Chicago area gathered for a researcHStart symposium at Beckman Institute on August 4 to present their cancer research. In June, six high school students from Central Illinois walked into research labs on the University of...
Apr 19, 2023 | Cancer Center News
A generous gift from Debra Cohen will support student scholars and cancer researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). The “Ira R. and Debra J. Cohen Cancer Center at Illinois Scholarship Fund” and the “Ira R. and Debra J. Cohen Cancer...
Nov 3, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Elisabeth Martin. Urbana, Ill. – High school students are often unsure of their career path and unable to obtain early hands-on experience in the fields they are interested in. This can be especially true for students with an early interest in oncology. The...
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...
Jun 3, 2020 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Bridging the engineering-biology continuum is a puzzle that drives and fascinates cancer researchers like Joy Chen, a junior undergraduate bioengineering student at the University of Illinois, former researcHStart student, and current Cancer Scholar. A Cancer Center...
Apr 14, 2019 | Cancer Center News
Joy Chen, Robert Forsyth, Ngozi Amadikwu, Jarron Roy, and Hailan Shanbhag Several alumni from the researcHStart program met with Paloma Pearson, program manager for the Illinois campus, on Friday, April 12 at Caffé Bene in Champaign. Joy Chen, Robert Forsyth, Ngozi...
Aug 15, 2017 | Cancer Center News
2017 Research Start Group Approximately 100 students, mentors, family, and friends came to the new Cancer Center at Illinois – located at the Beckman Institute – to celebrate the accomplishments of 24 researcHStart students. Guests enjoyed spending time...
Jun 21, 2017 | Cancer Center News
2017 ResearcHStart Cohort The Cancer Community at Illinois’ third researcHStart summer program has just begun! Eight high school students from the surrounding Champaign-Urbana area are spending the next eight weeks working on cancer-focused projects. Students...