Oct 23, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois bioengineering faculty members are playing key roles in a new joint center for mRNA delivery and cancer immunotherapy (CCIT). This new center is co-lead by Professor Shuming Nie at UIUC and by Professor Youqing Shen at Zhejiang University (ZJU). It involves a...
Oct 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Nicholas Wu – professor of biochemistry; recipient of NIH New Innovator Award Urbana, Ill. – Nicholas Wu, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award,...
Sep 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Nicholas Wu. Urbana, Ill. – Nicholas Wu, assistant professor of biochemistry, was recently named an associate member of the Cancer Center at Illinois. Previously focusing on viruses such as influenza and COVID-19 in his research, Wu is eager to expand his...
Aug 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Pictured (l-r): Timothy Fan (CCIL research program leader), Bill Sullivan, Marty Burke (CCIL member), Nigel Goldenfield, Rebecca Smith (CCIL member), Paul Hergenrother (CCIL deputy director). Urbana, Ill. – University of Illinois President Tim Killeen on Monday...
May 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Deep Mutational Scanning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Cancer Using Transfer Learning Approaches” Research team includes: Erik Procko, assistant professor in biochemistry What led to your exploration of cancer? Cancer is one of...
Apr 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The prevalence of health misinformation can influence public opinion, partially due to poor health literacy, and influence risk perception regarding treatments, screening, vaccinations, and cancer. Jessie Chin, assistant professor at the School of...
Apr 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Hee-Sun Han, Assistant Professor and Mark A. Pytosh Scholar Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hee-Sun Han, assistant professor of chemistry, is using her expertise in optics, chemistry, and computational biology to tackle cancer. Han...
Mar 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A fast, low-cost technique to see and count viruses or proteins from a sample in real time, without any chemicals or dyes, could underpin a new class of devices for rapid diagnostics and viral load monitoring, including HIV and the virus that causes...
Aug 4, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, scientists and health care providers are seeking ways to keep the coronavirus from infecting tissues once they’re exposed. A new study suggests luring the virus with a decoy – an engineered,...
Jul 17, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Breast cancer patients are 60 percent more likely to die of cancer after surviving a heart attack, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers reported that heart attacks, by blocking blood flow through arteries, trigger a specific, pro-cancer...
Jul 14, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members are working to combat COVID-19 with many new research projects funded through the Jump ARCHES research and development program in partnership with OSF HealthCare and The Grainger College of Engineering. CCIL members Rashid Bashir, Brian Cunningham, Joseph...
Jul 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Read the full SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell Charge Letter CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will provide free on-campus COVID-19 walk-up testing to all faculty members, staff and students beginning this week. News media interested in...