Our Researchers

Aleksei Aksimentiev

John Bardeen Faculty Scholar and Professor, Physics

Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk

Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Mark Anastasio

Department Head, Bioengineering

Rashid Bashir

Dean, Grainger College of Engineering

Rohit Bhargava

Phillip and Ann Sharp Director, Cancer Center at Illinois

Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering

Stephen Boppart

Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Martin Burke

Professor, Chemistry

Jefferson Chan

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Kevin Chang

Professor, Computer Science

Jie Chen

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Jessie Chin

Associate Professor, Information Sciences

Mark Cohen

Dean & Chief Academic Officer, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Chair, Internal Advisory Council

Claudius Conrad

Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Brian Cunningham

Research Program Leader, Cancer Center at Illinois

Intel Alumni Endowed Chair and Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Wawrzyniec Dobrucki

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Mohammed El-Kebir

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Timothy Fan

Associate Director for Translational Research and Development

Khan Family Chair and Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine

Jodi Flaws

Professor, Comparative Biosciences

David Forsyth

Fulton Watson Copp Chair and Professor, Computer Science

Brian Freeman

MCB Distinguished Professorial Scholar and Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Rex Gaskins

Professor Emeritus, Animal Sciences

Viktor Gruev

Research Program Leader, Cancer Center at Illinois

Dunning Endowed Faculty Scholar and Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bumsoo Han

Phil and Ann Sharp Scholar and Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering

Brendan Harley

Research Program Leader, Cancer Center at Illinois

Robert W. Schaefer Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Paul Hergenrother

Deputy Director

Kenneth Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair and Professor, Chemistry

Raven Huang

Professor, Biochemistry

Michael Insana

Donald Biggar Willett Professor, Bioengineering

Joseph Irudayaraj

Associate Director for Shared Resources

Founder Professor, Bioengineering

Keith Jarosinski

Associate Professor, Pathobiology

Auinash Kalsotra

Professor, Biochemistry

Benita Katzenellenbogen

Maybelle Leland Swanlund Professor Emerita, Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Special Advisor to the Director

John Katzenellenbogen

Maybelle Leland Swanlund Professor Emeritus, Chemistry

Paul Kenis

Director, School of Chemical Sciences

William King

Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair and Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering

Hyunjoon Kong

Robert W. Schaefer Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

David Kranz

Phillip A. Sharp Endowed Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry

Fan Lam

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Deborah Leckband

Reid T. Milner Professor, School of Chemical Sciences

Hua Li

Research Professor, Bioengineering

Zhi-Pei Liang

Franklin W. Woeltge Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Yang Liu

Professor, Bioengineering

Zaida Luthey-Schulten

Murchison-Mallory Endowed Chair and Professor, Chemistry

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

Associate Director for Education, Cancer Center at Illinois

Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar and Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition

Cecilia Maria Leal

Racheff Faculty Fellow and Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Angad Mehta

T. M. Balthazor Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Ruby Mendenhall

Associate Director

Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor, Sociology

Ling Meng

Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering

Samy Meroueh

Professor, Biochemistry

Olgica Milenkovic

Franklin W. Woeltge Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jeffrey Moore

Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Chemistry

Catherine Murphy

Department Head and Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair and Professor, Chemistry

Satish Nair

Department Head and Gregorio Weber Professor, Biochemistry

Erik Nelson

Research Program Leader, Cancer Center at Illinois

Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | CRAG Co-Leader

Shuming Nie

W. W. Grainger Chair and Professor, Bioengineering

Michael Oelze

Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Scholar and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Pablo Perez-Pinera

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Kannanganattu Prasanth

Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Supriya Prasanth

Department Head and Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Jason Ridlon

Associate Professor, Animal Sciences

Sandra Rodriguez-Zas

Professor, Animal Sciences

Taher Saif

Edward William and Jane Marr Gutsell Professor, Mechanical Science & Engineering

Kim Selting

John A. Coyne Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine

Paul Selvin

Professor, Physics

David Shapiro

Professor, Biochemistry

Diwakar Shukla

Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Ratnakar Singh

Research Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Stephen Sligar

Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry

Andrew Smith

Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar and Professor, Bioengineering

Rebecca Smith

Associate Professor, Pathobiology

Jun Song

Professor, Physics

Michael Spinella

Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Emad Tajkhorshid

J. Woodland Hastings Endowed Chair and Professor, Biochemistry

Gregory Underhill

Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Wilfred van der Donk

Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair and Professor, Chemistry

Bo Wang

Associate Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Hua Wang

Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Kun Wang

Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Xing Wang

Associate Professor, Chemistry

Nicholas Wu

Associate Professor, Biochemistry

Huimin Zhao

Steven L. Miller Chair and Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Sihai Zhao

Associate Professor, Statistics