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CANCER CENTER AT ILLINOIS WELCOMES NEW COHORT OF TISSUE MICROENVIRONMENT GRADUATE PROGRAM STUDENTS

Jordan Goebig, Communications Coordinator 2020-08-19 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 opportunity to explore diverse ideas, build new relationships, and closely analyze […]

CCIL Member and TiMe Students Study Best Fabrics for Face Masks

2020-05-04 Taher Saif, Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and students Onur Aydin and Bashar Emon are testing common household fabrics to better inform those making homemade masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19. “The droplets released during coughing and sneezing come in various sizes and velocities. The fabric for any mask should be […]

Sisi He: Student Spotlight and PhD Defense

2020-03-26 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 CCIL’s Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research program and the Tissue Microenvironment program. […]

TiMe Day Symposium 2019

Carlos Renteria 2019-04-26 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 University of Illinois participated to share the diverse research related to the tissue microenvironment.. Several faculty members provided research […]

TiMe Students Speak with Dr. Cyrus Ghajar

Paloma Pearson 2019-03-27 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 research is to understand how microenvironments within distant tissues regulate dormancy and growth of disseminated tumor cells […]

TiMe Participates in 2019 Beckman Open House

Paloma Pearson 2019-03-20 Students from the Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) program participated in the Beckman Institute’s biannual open house. Visitors had the opportunity to explore the research occurring at Beckman in conjunction with the annual Engineering Open House. The TiMe cohort and ENVISION gave visitors a chance to utilize 3D pens to build their own artistic […]

TiMe Students Speak with Dr. Cyrus Ghajar

Paloma Pearson 2019-03-27 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 research is to understand how microenvironments within distant tissues regulate dormancy and growth of disseminated tumor cells […]

TiMe Participates in 2019 Beckman Open House

Paloma Pearson 2019-03-20 Students from the Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) program participated in the Beckman Institute’s biannual open house. Visitors had the opportunity to explore the research occurring at Beckman in conjunction with the annual Engineering Open House. The TiMe cohort and ENVISION gave visitors a chance to utilize 3D pens to build their own artistic […]

Parinaz Fathi Earns Spot in Prestigious Los Alamos National Lab Program

2019-02-01 Announcement originally from BioEngineering: Parinaz Fathi, a doctoral student in Professor Dipanjan Pan’s research group, has been selected to participate in the 2019 Science of Signatures Advanced Studies Institute at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) this spring. This highly selective, three-week program brings 15 accomplished Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers from around the country […]

Guest Speaker ~ Kirti Kulkarni, MD

2018-10-05 TiMe students had the opportunity to interact with Dr. Kirti Kulkarni of the University of Chicago’s Cancer Center. Dr. Kulkarni provided them an in-depth understanding of the day-to-day interactions of a radiologist with patients and physician colleagues, and also discussed the complexities of radiological reading. There were conversations and discussions of improvements in radiological […]