May 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Mechanochemical Dynamic Therapy (MDT) working group held its first workshop on May 21 to promote collaboration among researchers. The working group is housed in the CCIL’s Cancer Measurement Technology and Data Science (CMD)...
Feb 29, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Jeff Chan, associate professor of chemistry, recently published research demonstrating the development of an activatable cancer therapeutic to help eliminate the side effects of traditional chemotherapies. “There are many potent...
Oct 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Pengfei Song, a researcher at the Beckman Institute and a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; Matthew Lowerison, a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow; and Zhijie Dong, a Ph.D. student in the Song Lab, are members of an...
Oct 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Images showing coronal, axial, and sagittal speed of sound images of the breast, taken with the QT Imaging scanner. Urbana, Ill. – A Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher has been awarded a multi-million-dollar federal grant to develop an advanced...
Apr 14, 2022 | Cancer Center News
This kidney cancer tumor model imaged using ultrasound localization techniques captures directional flow mapping of the tumor and distinguishes between feeding and draining vasculature. More than 75 years after the Fry brothers arrived at Grainger Engineering, the...
Jan 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Rohit Bhargava. Urbana, Ill. – The Fighting Illini are also fighting cancer by supporting and promoting awareness of the Cancer Center at Illinois, a research unit and a community of experts in cancer biology and technology that seeks to address gaps in...
Oct 18, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Michael Oelze. Urbana, Ill. – A Carle Illinois College of Medicine research team is developing a new device that will improve the management of breast cancer using ultrasound imaging. The team has innovated new radiological clips that will increase...
Mar 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Pengfei Song, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Trailblazer R21 Award for pursuing the next-generation ultrasound localization microscopy. The award...
Feb 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Four in ten* patients screened for breast cancer are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis due to the presence of dense breast tissue. Traditional mammography cannot reliably diagnose the disease in these patients, sometimes even with the help of supplemental screening....
Feb 16, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki (left) and Michael Oelze (right). Urbana, Ill. – Eight faculty from The Grainger College of Engineering have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation Professor appointments. The new faculty deliver on Carle Illinois’...
Nov 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member, Michael Oelze, and his collaborative breast cancer and ultrasound imaging research with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, was awarded a major $2M grant from the National Cancer Institute...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois is a basic science research institution, where members contribute to cancer research by studying biological pathways and genetics, discover and test new drugs, improve medical imaging techniques, develop and evaluate cancer models, and...
