Chris Anderson

About

Chris Anderson is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds courtesy appointments in Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Materials Research Laboratory, and the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab. He is a member of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center and serves as senior personnel for the Hybrid Quantum Networks and Architectures initiative. Anderson's research is situated at the intersection of quantum materials science and engineering, focusing on advancing quantum information science through innovative materials and device architectures. His work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership Award in 2026, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2025, the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering recognition in 2025, the Coherent Block Gift Award in 2025, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2025, the NSF CAREER Award in 2025, the Google Academic Research Award in 2024, and the Quantum Creators Prize in 2022. Through his leadership in the Anderson Lab, he mentors graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduates, fostering a collaborative environment dedicated to pioneering research in quantum materials and technologies.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Biology
• Political Science
• Immunology
• Computational biology
• Cancer research
• Medical physics
• Pathology
• Nuclear medicine
• Law

Selected publications

• Funding Reductions Threaten the Future of Medical Innovation

  Journal of Nuclear Medicine · 2025-05-08 · 1 citations

  editorialOpen access

  As medical researchers and clinicians, we are concerned about the proposed reductions in funding for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DoE), and Department of Defense (DoD) medical research programs. These reductions threaten progress in treatments for cancer as

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• Figure S6 from Evaluation of VLA-4 (Integrin α4β1) as a Shared Target for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy across Solid Tumors

  2025-06-04

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  <p>(A) Platelet counts weekly after [67Cu]Cu-LLP2A treatment. (B) Creatinine, (C) alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and (D) total bilirubin collected in animals 5 months after treatment with 55.5 MBq (1.5 mCi) of [67Cu]Cu-LLP2A or control treatment (PBS). Unpaired t-test; ns = not significant.</p>

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• Table S1 from Evaluation of VLA-4 (Integrin α4β1) as a Shared Target for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy across Solid Tumors

  2025-06-04

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  <p>Table of mouse models for each tumor type</p>

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• Data from Evaluation of VLA-4 (Integrin α4β1) as a Shared Target for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy across Solid Tumors

  2025-06-04

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  <div>Abstract<p>Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is a promising approach to treating solid tumors, but therapeutic advances are impeded by the lack of broadly expressed targets and shared molecular vulnerability across different tumor types. Here, we evaluate VLA-4 (integrin α4β1) as a potential target for RPT in solid tumors and use radiolabeled copper-64 ([<sup>64</sup>Cu]Cu-) and copper-67 ([<sup>67</sup>Cu]Cu-CB-TE1A1P-PEG<sub>4</sub>-LLP2A) L…

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• Figure S2 from Evaluation of VLA-4 (Integrin α4β1) as a Shared Target for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy across Solid Tumors

  2025-06-04

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  <p>Immunohistochemistry staining of human CD3 of spleen and tumor (IMR-5) for detection of human CAR T-cell engraftment.</p>

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant U01HL080729

  NIH · $24.3M · 2010

• NIH Grant R01CA064475

  NIH · $3.4M · 2013

• NIH Grant R21CA098698

  NIH · $383k · 2006

Frequent coauthors

• Joseph D. Latoche

  University of Pittsburgh

  114 shared

• Wilson B. Edwards

  105 shared

• Michael J. Welch

  84 shared

• Gary R. Weisman

  79 shared

• Edward H. Wong

  York University

  74 shared

• Gary Kohanbash

  University of Pittsburgh

  71 shared

• Kathryn E. Day

  UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

  71 shared

• Jessie R. Nedrow

  University of Pittsburgh

  67 shared

Labs

• The Anderson LabPI

Education

• PhD, Chemistry

  Florida State University

  1990

Awards & honors

• Quantum Creators Prize (2022)
• Google Academic Research Award (2024)
• AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2025)
• NSF CAREER Award (2025)
• DARPA Young Faculty Award (2025)

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