May 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Jeff Chan (left), an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the study’s principal investigator, and Anuj Yadav (right), a senior research associate and the study’s lead coauthor. It has long been hypothesized...
Apr 13, 2022 | Student Spotlight
Urbana, Ill. – In 2021, Illinois graduate student Sarah Gardner was awarded a Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Graduate Cancer Scholarship. Today, Gardner continues her research supported by the CCIL, studying cancer stem cells, associated enzymes, and how the tumor...
Jan 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Image of Bashar Emon Bashar Emon, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, is using the funding from his Cancer Center at Illinois Graduate Cancer Scholarship Program to focus on characterizing matrix remodeling in the cancer microenvironment. The rigidity of the cancer...
Jul 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Four Illinois students received the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Graduate Cancer Scholarships to pursue cancer research projects under the mentorship of CCIL scientists. “A core mission of the Cancer Center at Illinois is to mobilize and...
May 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Ashlie Santaliz-Casiano, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Tissue Microenvironment Program, 2020 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I grew up in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. I am a product of both in public and private education system on the island. I...
Apr 21, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – When Taher Saif, professor of mechanical science and engineering, joined Illinois over two decades ago, he thought he would use his skills to help people – by improving their vehicles and cell phones – but just a few years later, he realized his...
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 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...
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...
