Ashok Samuel

Ashok Samuel

Research Samuel’s primary research focus is biomedical imaging, including the areas of biophontics, cancer, live-cell imaging, molecular imaging, and tumor microenvironments. Samuel is also a member of the Beckman Institute for Science & Technology....
Huimin Zhao

Huimin Zhao

Research Huimin Zhao’s research develops and applies synthetic biology, machine learning, and laboratory automation tools to engineer functionally improved or novel proteins, pathways, and genomes for biotechnological and biomedical applications. Zhao...
Xing Wang

Xing Wang

Research Xing Wang’s research group utilizes nucleic acids and protein engineering to evolve new molecular binders, and create and customize designer DNA nanostructure-based “plug-and-play” platforms for bioengineering and bio-nanotechnology applications...
Marina Marjanovic

Marina Marjanovic

Research Marina Marjanovic’s primary research area is in the field of biomedical imaging. Marjanovic additionally investigates live-cell imaging, optical diagnostics for cancer, and primary care imaging. Education Ph.D., Physiology, University of Belgrade...
Yang Liu

Yang Liu

Research A professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Yang Liu investigates the future of precision medicine through cutting-edge multiscale optical microscopy, automation and robotics, artificial intelligence, and large-scale bioimage informatics. Her imaging...
Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk

Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk

Research Sayeepriyadarshini (Sayee) Anakk focuses on understanding liver metabolism in both normal and diseased states. She aims to investigate how bile acids and nuclear receptors maintain metabolic homeostasis and contribute to liver diseases, including cancer,...
Yun-Sheng Chen

Yun-Sheng Chen

Research Yun-Sheng Chen is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. He is a faculty member of the Beckman Institute and the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and an affiliate of the Department of Bioengineering and the Carle Illinois...
Susan Leggett

Susan Leggett

Research Susan Leggett’s research integrates live-cell imaging, bioengineering, and machine learning to elucidate dynamic single and collective cell behaviors that drive cancer progression. Her research has established tools to reverse-engineer tumors and...
Mark Cohen

Mark Cohen

Research Mark Cohen was previously a professor of surgery and pharmacology at the University of Michigan, where he also served as the director of the Medical School Pathway of Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the director of endocrine surgery research...
Mei Shen

Mei Shen

Research Before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mei performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Shigeru Amemiya at the University of Pittsburgh (2012), where she successfully imaged the ion flux across a single nanopore in an...
Jonathan Sweedler

Jonathan Sweedler

Research Sweedler’s research interests are in bioanalytical chemistry and focus on developing new methods for assaying the chemistry occurring in nanoliter-volume samples and applying these analytical methods to characterize the small molecule and peptide...
Yang Zhao

Yang Zhao

Research Yang Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Yang’s research focuses on bionanophotonics: inspired by nature, her team develops biomimetic metamaterials and...