Eman Hammad, a Fulbright visiting scholar from the University of Jordan, began her Fulbright scholar program at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine in the fall of 2018. Her research at the University of Illinois is in pharmacoeconomics, which addresses the cost-effectiveness of medications. Eman’s story began in her home country of Jordan, where at a young age, a trip to the pharmacy catalyzed a curiosity in pharmacology. She witnessed the everyday practice of pharmacists […]

A University of Illinois team of researchers led by chemistry professor and Carle Illinois research mentor M. Christina White has developed a new manganese-based catalyst that can change the structure of druglike molecules to make new drugs, advancing the pace and efficiency of drug development.

By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have unlocked several large gene clusters for new natural products, according to a study published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. Since many antibiotics, anti-cancer agents and other drugs have been derived from genes readily expressed in Streptomyces, the researchers hope that unsilencing genes that have not previously been expressed in the lab will yield additional candidates […]

A new compound that targets a receptor within sarcoma cancer cells shrank tumors and hampered their ability to spread in mice and pigs, a study from researchers at the University of Illinois reports. The researchers conducted a multi-year, cross-disciplinary study that went from screening potential drug candidates to identifying and synthesizing one compound, to packaging it into nanoparticles for delivery in cells, to testing it in cell cultures and finally in mice and pigs with […]

Stephen Boppart joins the Carle Illinois College of Medicine as interim executive associate dean and chief diversity officer.

As Valerie Chen pursues a future as a physician-innovator, her astute insights into the human experience will have an invaluable impact on the patients in her future care.

Imagine this: a highly qualified group of 29 medical school students, engineers, and citizen scientists dedicating an entire Saturday to finding the next big innovation that will improve the human condition. That was exactly the scene at Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s first ever “Make-a-thon.” The day-long event included Illinois medical students, students from other colleges across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and members of the Champaign-Urbana community all of whom gathered at Everitt […]

Rashid Bashir, dean of the University of Illinois College of Engineering and Carle Illinois professor, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow.

An international research collaboration has developed a noninvasive multimodal nanoparticle-based imaging agent that can assess the receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE).

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, and Chemistry have joined forces to develop a highly sensitive neural probe to monitor brain chemistry.