Jul 19, 2024 | Cancer Center News
“To cure, prevent, and manage every human disease by the end of the century”—this is the bold vision of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Launched in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CZI aims to build a “better future for everyone” by addressing some of...
Feb 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
University of Illinois professor Deborah Leckband led a study that revealed how Velcro-like cellular proteins called cadherins sense tissue mechanics to regulate cell communication and biological tissue growth. Photo courtesy of Claire Benjamin. Urbana, Ill. – The...
Aug 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers developed a method that makes membrane-bound receptors reactive to light, triggering the Wnt pathway, important in embryonic development and cancer. Image courtesy of Kai Zhang. Urbana, Ill. – Blue light is illuminating a new understanding of a...
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...
Apr 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Lisa Stubbs, left, with Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Brendan Harley, and Research Assistant Professor Sara Pedron-Haba. Advanced settings. Urbana, Ill. – The Society For Biomaterials...
Mar 25, 2021 | Student Spotlight
Amir Moghaddam, Department of Mechanical Science and EngineeringTissue Microenvironment Program, 2020 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I received my bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran and my...
Feb 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Left – Individual cells invade away from a central tumor spheroid and into the surrounding vascularized microenvironment. Tumor cells are shown in red and vasculature is shown in green. Right – Individual tumor cells (red) interact closely with surrounding vasculature...
Aug 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When it comes to training neural circuits for tissue engineering or biomedical applications, a new study suggests a key parameter: Train them young. Techniques for training engineered neural circuits usually involve training them after the cells have...
Aug 1, 2019 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Hailey Knox, ChemistryTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program What is your research focus? I explore photoacoustic imaging, a technique where light is delivered into tissues, and certain compounds absorb it. When they release it as heat, we can detect that energy...
Apr 5, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Cancer lurking in tissue could be more easily found when looking through a butterfly’s eye. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the morpho...
Feb 27, 2018 | Cancer Center News
ABSTRACTThis study reports novel findings that link E-cadherin (also known as CDH1)-mediated force-transduction signaling to vinculin targeting to intercellular junctions via epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and integrins. These results build on previous...
Feb 26, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz and Dr. Kesh Kesavadas. The Tissue Microenvironment class was privileged to spend an hour and a half talking with Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Alagoz came in from Wisconsin to speak to the ISE Graduate...
