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NIH Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) grad student training program @IllinoisAlma. Exploring interdisciplinary research on the forefront of biomedical sciences.

Urbana, IL
Joined March 2019
“It's about doing what you need to do and finding a way to make it work.” Catherine Applegate, @TiMeUIUC. Her cancer diagnosis hasn’t slowed her down - she’s still committed to improving human health. #FightingIllini #FightingCancer Read more ➡ bit.ly/2Uc1jyX
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#ILLINOIS graduate students - due to technical difficulties, the application deadline for the 2020 - 2021 TiMe Program has been extended to June 2, 2020. @TiMeUIUC Learn more and apply➡️bit.ly/3aTIhTg
#ILLINOIS graduate students - the app and reference deadline for the 2020 - 2021 TiMe Program has been extended to May 30, 2020. @TiMeUIUC Learn more and submit ➡️bit.ly/3aTIhTg
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Slav Dvoretskiy, Kinesiology graduate and @TiMeUIUC, believes that cancer prevention, specifically through nutrition and exercise, is the key to beating cancer. After graduating, he's looking forward to a change in environment after 9 years at #ILLINOIS! 🎓Congrats Slav! 🎓
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#ILLINOIS graduate students - applications for the Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Program are due today! @TiMeUIUC Learn more and submit apps ➡️bit.ly/3aTIhTg
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Catherine Applegate, Nutritional Sciences PhD, has always been interested in #CancerResearch, but it recently became personal as she is undergoing cancer treatment. She's excited to have family & friends call her "Dr." and start her postdoc! 🎓#FightingIllini #FightingCancer🎓
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We're celebrating our CCIL grads this week! Parinaz Fathi,@TiMeUIUC graduate, will continue #CancerResearch as a postdoc - it's important to her b/c cancer is complex and can affect people from all backgrounds and walks of life. Congratulations Parinaz! 🔶🔷
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#ILLINOIS graduate students - the TiME Program is recruiting! Receive funding & participate in research and professional development. Open to students across campus whose goals are to advance biomedicine and healthcare. Apply by May 14 ➡️bit.ly/3aTIhTg
As a child, Rohit Bhargava assumed he'd either be a professional soccer player or an architect. Now he's a bioengineering professor and the director of the Cancer Center at Illinois ⭐️ bit.ly/34DxYBy
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"Our tools can help eliminate guesswork for physicians, eliminate waiting for patients, and accelerate the search for cures to enable precise and personally fulfilling care for everyone, regardless of their socio-economic status." CCIL Director, Rohit Bhargava @rxbtweet
Bioengineering professor and Cancer Center at Illinois director Rohit Bhargava is transforming lives by bringing science and people together. “Whenever anyone thinks of technology in cancer, I want them to think of #ILLINOIS.” bit.ly/3aaSpXp
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I'm excited to know that two of my students @FOstadhossein (former grad students @BIOENGatIL and postdoc @BeckmanInst ) and @ParinazFathi (final year grad student @BIOENGatIL and @NIST fellow) were selected as 2020 CASFutureLeaders @CASChemistry !!!
It's official! Here to announce our 2020 #CASFutureLeaders are program alumni @STEMxicanEd, @Felicia5562, @cesapo, @ChemistCraig, @nadineborduas and @gomobel. Congratulations to this year's class! ow.ly/Fa9k50yWwPQ
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When Catherine began her graduate research on cancer, she had no idea she would soon become a patient. “It's teaching me to view my research not only as a scientist, but as a patient who may be highly impacted by that research.” ➡️bit.ly/3eno1fK #ILLINOIS2020
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My SEM image is a semi-finalist in the 2020 Graduate Image of Research Competition! People's Choice voting is open- check out the images and vote for your top 3 choices: quiz-maker.com/QP1GXKJ .@BIOENGatIL .@uofigrainger .@BeckmanInst .@TiMeUIUC
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Craig Richard, a graduate student in the CCIL's TiMe Program, is working on improved infrared imaging to detect cancer during a biopsy. Learn more about Craig and his work: bit.ly/CraigRichard
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Catherine Applegete, a graduate student in the Cancer Center's TiMe Program, was featured by @BBC_Future about the potential benefits of eating soybeans and soy products. bbc.in/2YVITqm
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The Pan Research Group—led by Cancer Center member Dipanjan Pan—recently developed a biocompatible nanoparticle to visualize lymph nodes and detect cancer without causing toxicity or prolonged accumulation in organs. bit.ly/31Ib6OA
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Student Spotlight: Hailey Knox, a @ChemistryUIUC graduate student, explores hypoxia in tumors using photoacoustic imaging. Learn more about Hailey and her research here: bit.ly/330IZLH
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It's TiMe! Check-in starts at 8:30.
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TiMe’s running out. Submit your abstract by April 5th to be part of the TiMe Day Symposium poster session. #ItsTiMe. ow.ly/gjLl50ml50U
It was great having dinner tonight and talking about everything from science to baseball with Dr Ghajar @GhajarLab and the TiMe cohort @TiMeUIUC !! @CancerCenterIL @Illinois_Alma #gradschool
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