[Illinois] Cancer Community Symposium 2012: Closing Address and Awards
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Cancer Community At Illinois Symposium 2012
April 5-6, 2012: Connecting patient care, research, and scientific advancement
Symposium Premise
This on-campus research symposium aims to bring together members of campus and the surrounding community to foster interdisciplinary discussions on cancer research and its affects on patient care. In order to increase understanding and awareness, we will discuss in an open forum with research talks, poster presentations, and panel discussions. We invite community members, clinicians, and researchers from UIUC and other Midwest regional institutions from departments ranging from the social sciences to basic sciences to engineering and medicine.
The symposium features invited talks from nationally-recognized cancer researchers, oral presentations from UIUC faculty and students, and poster sessions. We encourage student researchers from UIUC and from other regional schools to apply (travel awards are available).
About CC@I Symposium
The Cancer Community at Illinois (CC@I) Symposium is organized by a group of students on the University of Illinois campus to bridge the areas of social science, basic sciences to engineering and medicine as they relate to cancer. The symposium mission is to: 1) Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding that transcends established departmental affiliation; 2) Foster an increased understanding of the social and environmental factors affecting patients; and 3) Develop unique vantage points afforded by interactive dialogue between and among the various cancer research disciplines. In order to accomplish this, the symposium will engage the local patient community through use of the nascent social and support efforts of the Mills Breast Cancer Institute, Carle Hospital, and regional clinical collaborators.
If you are interested in other CC@I events or the program in general, please contact cancer-community@illinois.edu
Bio
Rohit Bhargava received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 2000 and undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1996. He is an assistant professor in the UIUC Department of Bioengineering and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Bioimaging Science and Technology group. His fields of professional interest are infrared spectroscopic imaging, cancer pathology, probes for molecular imaging, polymer structure and numerical methods for image processing.
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Sponsored by
The Focal Point Project by the Graduate College
Co-sponsors:
Departmnt of Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Division of Biomedical Sciences
Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
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Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
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Obaid Sarvana, Adeeb Yunus, NanoBio Node
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign