• Research
• Initiatives
• Biomedical Nanoscience

Investigators

Chair:

Thompson, Mark. Department of Chemistry, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Biomedical Nanoscience Faculty:

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Alex Benderskii, Department of Chemistry. Laser spectroscopy of biological and material interfaces.

Stephen Bradforth, Department of Chemistry. Ultra fast laser spectroscopy; biomimetic light harvesting.

Richard Brutchey, Department of Chemistry. Synthesis of functional nanocrystals using chemical design.

Mohammed El-Naggar, Department of Physics. Biophysics at the intersection of physics, biology, and nano.

Kenneth Nealson, Department of Earth Sciences. Systems biology, microbe nanowires.

Richard Roberts, Department of Chemistry. mRNA display, G-protein signalling, in vitro evolution.

Mark Thompson, Department of Chemistry. Nanoscience & NanoBioSensing, Biotic/Abiotic interface.

Priya Vashishta, Department of Physics. Advance Computing/Simulation.

Viterbi School of Engineering

Andrea Armani, Department of Chemical Engineering.

Steven Cronin, Department of Electrical Engineering. Carbon Nanotubes, Bi Nanowires, biosensors.

Martin Gundersen, Department of Electrical Engineering. Pulsed Power, Biomedicine.

Malancha Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering. Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials, Composites and Hydrogels.

Andrea Hodge, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Engineered nanomaterials for advanced applications.

Tzung Hsiai, Department of Biomedical Engineering. MEMS and nanosensors, cardiovascular.

Eun Sok Kim, Department of Electrical Engineering. MEMS, microfluids, piezoelectric transducers.

Gerald Loeb, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Neural prosthetics.

Anupam Madhukar, Department of Physics. Self organized semicon nanostructures, abiotic nanosystems.

Noah Malmstadt, Department of Chemical Engineering. Biomimetic Phase Interfaces.

Ellis Meng, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Novel micro- and nanotechnologies for biomedical applications.

Tait Pottebaum, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Microscale fluid flow, Heat transfer.

Ari Requicha,Department of Computer Science. Molecular robotics, Nano robotics.

Muhammed Sahimi, Department of Chemical Engineering. Dynamics in nanoporous membranes; stochastic modeling of biological phenomena.

Kirk Shung,Department of Biomedical Engineering. Ultrasonic transducers and imaging.

Constatine Sioutas, Department of Civil Engineering. Biological Aerosols, Ultrafine Emissions.

Thomas Vernier,Information Sciences Institute. Pulsed power perturbation of biological systems.

Pin Wang, Department of Chemical Engineering. Cancer treatment, gene therapy.

Chongwu Zhou,Department of Electrical Engineering. Carbon nanotubes, nanowires, biosensing and drug.

School of Dentistry

Janet Oldak. Enamel formation, molecular biology and amelogenin.

Malcolm Snead. Molecular, cellular and genetic approaches to enamel biomimetics.

School of Pharmacy

Julio Camarero.Chemical biology; protein and peptide therapeutics; biosensors.

Sarah Hamm-Alvarez. Targeted drug therpay.

Andrew McKay.Bioresponsive nanocarriers, composed from lipids and peptides.

Nouri Neamati. Antiviral and anticancer drug design and discovery.

Keck School of Medicine

Kinji Asahina.Liver Development and Regeneration.

Edward Crandall. Transport properties in alveolar epithelial cells.

Mark Humayun.Electrical stimulation of the retina, retinal prosthesis.

Robert Kloner.Cardiovascular.

Uttam Sinha.Otolaryngology; cancer detection in saliva/serum.

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Samuel Yiu.Ocular drug delivery, Tissue Engineering.

Last updated: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:15pm PDT