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Cancer Center at Illinois
An engineering-led NCI basic cancer centre at the University of Illinois, working on chemical imaging of tissue, new anticancer chemistry and comparative oncology.
Also called: CCIL
Overview
The Cancer Center at Illinois is one of the newest NCI-designated basic laboratory cancer centres and is unusual in being rooted in a college of engineering and a veterinary school rather than a medical centre. Rohit Bhargava's infrared chemical imaging reads tissue chemistry without stains; Paul Hergenrother's laboratory produced the procaspase-3 activator PAC-1 and other compounds that entered trials; Timothy Fan runs comparative oncology trials in pet dogs that inform human drug development. The Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the first engineering-based medical school, is its clinical partner, and computational and AI approaches to cancer are a growing theme.
Location
Urbana, IL, US
Type
research institute · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
basic
OnCo score
#254 · 24 points (0 Newsweek + 8 NCI + 16 from 8 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-10-01.
Matched to Cancer Center at Illinois, including child institutions. 42 works · 556 citations · 95% open access · 0% clinical trials · 2% reviews.
Oncology works per year
102022
102023
82024
102025
42026
Most works
- Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk13 works
- Laura Q. Rogers6 works
- Edward McAuley6 works
- Kerry S. Courneya6 works
- Angela Elizabeth Dean6 works
- Qianying Zuo5 works
- Timothy M. Fan5 works
- Yazen Alnouti5 works
- Siobhan M. Phillips5 works
- Sherwin Kelekar5 works
Most cited
- Chemical imaging of tissue
- Anticancer drug discovery
- Comparative oncology
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