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...
David Forsyth

David Forsyth

Research David Forsyth’s research focuses on computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. Education Ph.D., University of Oxford, 1989 Campus Affiliations Fulton Watson Copp Chair, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science...
Zaida Luthey-Schulten

Zaida Luthey-Schulten

Research Zaida Luthey-Schulten’s research lab investigates the rules of life for a minimal bacteria cell; GPU-based simulations of stochastic/deterministic processes in bacterial and eukaryal cells at biologically relevant length, time, and concentration scales;...
Wilfred van der Donk

Wilfred van der Donk

Research Wilfred van der Donk’s research program focuses on the discovery and design of new antibiotics and natural products. These projects combine synthetic organic and protein chemistry to address problems at the interface of chemistry and biology. Education...
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...
William King

William King

Research King’s research focuses on manufacturing and advanced materials, microsystems and nanotechnology, and heat transfer. Technologies developed in his laboratory are widely used in the automotive, medical, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries...
Claudius Conrad

Claudius Conrad

Research Claudius Conrad is a world-renowned surgeon, researcher and sought-after expert in minimally invasive procedures to treat liver, pancreatic and biliary tract cancers. With training at Harvard Medical School and other global centers of expertise, he...
Samy Meroueh

Samy Meroueh

Samy Meroueh develops small molecules that modulate the function of proteins that are considered undruggable, such as members of the RAS and Rho GTPase superfamily, transcription factors and co-activators such as Hippo pathway TEAD and YAP, and proteins involved in...
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...
Bumsoo Han

Bumsoo Han

Research Bumsoo Han is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and his research explores the biotransport phenomena for cancer therapy and tissue engineering. Education Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2001 Campus...
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,...
Keith Jarosinski

Keith Jarosinski

Research Keith Jarosinski’s research spans multiple aspects of herpesvirus-induced cancers, including host-to-host transmission, latency, transformation, and reactivation, using Marek’s disease virus (MDV) in chickens as a natural translational animal model. Most...