Feb 22, 2022 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Opeyemi Arogundade. Urbana, Ill. – Opeyemi Arogundade, Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) program trainee and student in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist, Andrew Smith’s, lab, is applying his academic background in physics to cancer research and...
Dec 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of You Jin Song. Urbana, Ill. – You Jin Song, a third year Ph.D. candidate in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher Kannanganattu Prasanth’s lab, is studying the effects of MALAT1, a long-noncoding RNA that is believed to play an important role in many...
Dec 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Ashlie Santaliz Casiano. Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) is excited to announce the recipient of the Fall 2021 Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Ashlie Santaliz Casiano, graduate student in the Division of Nutritional...
Sep 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois is excited to announce the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate students selected for the 2021 Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) Training Program. Four Illinois students were selected for the TiME Program, focused...
Apr 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Chenfei Hu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tissue Microenvironment Program, 2020 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I received my bachelor’s degree in Optics from Tianjin University (China) in 2014. I completed my MS degree in...
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...
Mar 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – In 2019, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Prasanth Kumar V. Kannanganattu was awarded a $250K CCIL Seed Grant in support of his research of the characterization of oncogenic noncoding RNAs in breast cancer progression and metastasis. A year...
Nov 23, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — The basic principles of biology state that cells are one of the smallest building blocks of every living organism. Everything in your body is made of them. When we get sick or we’re diagnosed with a disease like lung cancer, though we can’t see them,...
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...
Sep 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A study led by Xi Chen, a postdoctoral fellow working with CCIL member Gabriel Popescu, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, proposed a new, non-destructive tomography method that is able to perform under fewer limitations. The proposed technique, named...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Graduate Program kicks off its 2020 – 2021 academic year with nine new trainees dedicated to advancing biomedical science and healthcare. “With every new cohort of TiMe trainees comes the...
May 4, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Hyunjoon Kong, CCIL member and a Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, recently published a study in ACS Nano. Kong and collaborator Marni Boppart, Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health, tested the use of nanostimulators mixed...
