{"entity":{"id":"rohit-bhargava","kind":"person","name":"Rohit Bhargava","aka":[],"tldr":"Engineer who founded and directs the Cancer Center at Illinois, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign centre that applies engineering and basic science to cancer.","summary":"Rohit Bhargava is the Phillip and Ann Sharp Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and holds the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The centre's history page records that it began in 2011 as the Cancer Community, led by him and a group of more than 50 Illinois faculty, before becoming a formal centre. His leadership team includes Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother and associate directors for translational research (Timothy Fan), shared resources, education, engagement and administration.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: Cancer Center at Illinois leadership page","url":"https://cancer.illinois.edu/ccil-leadership/"},{"label":"Source: Cancer Center at Illinois 'About' page (history)","url":"https://cancer.illinois.edu/about"}],"tags":["leadership","clinician-scientist","research-institute"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["cancer-center-at-illinois"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["pnas"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Phillip and Ann Sharp Director, Cancer Center at Illinois","institutionId":"cancer-center-at-illinois","specialisms":["Bioengineering","Chemical imaging","Cancer technology research"],"profiles":[{"label":"Cancer Center at Illinois leadership directory","url":"https://cancer.illinois.edu/ccil-leadership/"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bhargava+R%5BAuthor%5D+AND+Illinois"}],"papers":[{"title":"Simultaneous cancer and tumor microenvironment subtyping using confocal infrared microscopy for all-digital molecular histopathology","journal":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences","year":2018,"doi":"10.1073/pnas.1719551115"}]},"route":"/people/rohit-bhargava/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"cancer-center-at-illinois","kind":"institution","name":"Cancer Center at Illinois","route":"/institutions/cancer-center-at-illinois/"}],"journal":[{"id":"pnas","kind":"journal","name":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences","route":"/journals/pnas/"}]}}