Research Themes
- Microfluidic devices & systems
- Chemical detection systems for low-cost instrumentation
- Surface analytical tools & methods
- Hardware & software for imaging
- Research tool development
Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
- Tissue engineering & regenerative therapy
- Growing replacement tissue & whole organs
- Medical biomaterials & bio-interface
- Microbial adhesion & biofilms
Global Health, Distributed Diagnosis & Home Healthcare (D2H2)
- Inexpensive point-of-care diagnostic systems
- Therapeutics for global health
- Enhanced healthcare data acquisition & delivery systems
Imaging & Image-Guided Therapy
- Molecular imaging
- Novel imaging modalities at the cellular & organismal level
- High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
- Image processing technologies
- Integrating imaging with therapeutic procedures
Integrative Physiology, Systems Biology & Synthetic Biology
- Integrative physiology & the physiome
- Pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics
- Systems biology
- Synthetic biology
- Controlled-release of therapeutic agents
- Targeted delivery of therapeutic agents & nucleic acids
- Better protein-binding molecules for diagnostics & therapeutics
- Nanoparticulate systems
- Molecular mechanics & protein folding
Neural Engineering, Rehabilitation & Augmentation
- New devices for neural study & manipulation
- New computational architectures based on neural algorithms
- Better haptic & human-computer-machine interfaces Systems for rehabilitation & augmentation
- Better prosthetics & robots
Understanding Nature through Engineering
- Biomechanics
- Muscle physiology
- Mechanisms of biological motion
- Water structure & hydrogels
- Oceanic carbon & hydrogels
