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...
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...
Jun 22, 2020 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Ian BergPhD Candidate, BioengineeringTissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Training Program 2018 Cohort How did your educational path lead you here? I studied engineering mechanics as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. During that time, I discovered my interest...
May 5, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Phuong Le, Bioengineering PhD, and former CCIL TiMe student and member of Associate Professor Andrew Smith’s lab was recently awarded a Schmidt Science Fellowship. Awardees receive a $100,000 stipend towards a postdoctoral position in a world-renowned...
Apr 9, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed tiny sensors that measure oxygen transport in bovine lung tissue. The study – which establishes a new framework for observing the elusive...
Mar 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Sisi He, PhD Candidate in Molecular and Integrative Physiology, will be defending her thesis, “The Impact of Cholesterol and Its Metabolites on the Ovarian Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Progression” April 6, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. Sisi is a student in...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using a new application of an existing imaging technique that may help detect tumors in humans. The technique, super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy, was used to visualize the distribution...
Jan 1, 2020 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Craig Richard, Bioengineering Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program Why did you join the Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) training program? When I was an undergrad, I interned with Dr. Rohit Bhargava’s lab in 2014 through the Nano@Illinois Program. I decided to join...
Nov 2, 2019 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Sisi He, PhD Candidate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology TiMe 2016 CohortC*STAR 2017 Cohort What first led to your interest in cancer research? I studied Chemistry and Biochemistry at UW-Madison for my Bachelor’s degree. Afterward, I came here to pursue doctoral...
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 26, 2019 | Cancer Center News
TiMe Students and Mentors at TiMe Day 2019 The TiMe Cohort hosted the third-annual Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Symposium on April 26, 2019 at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. This year over 90 participants across 15 departments from the...
Mar 27, 2019 | Cancer Center News
TiMe students and Dr. Cyrus Ghajar TiMe students had the opportunity to interact with guest speaker Dr. Cyrus Ghajar of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Ghajar’s work forcuses on the metastatic microenvironment and the goal of his...