Yang Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Yang received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin working with Professor...
The Mehta Lab is combining expertise in synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry to develop fundamentally novel, modular platforms to engineer selectivity in targeting cancers. They are using principles of directed evolution and biomolecule delivery platforms to...
Hee-Sun Han’s lab develops novel technologies integrating diverse chemical and physical principles to study intact, fully assembled biological systems with single cell/molecule resolution, at high throughput while retaining the spatial or environmental...
Liang Gao is an expert in ultrafast bioimaging, biomedical optics, and 3D display technologies. His primary research interests encompass multidimensional optical imaging, including hyperspectral imaging and ultrafast imaging, photoacoustic tomography and microscopy,...
Kendrith M. Rowland is an oncologist at Carle Foundation Hospital and Carle Cancer Center. He manages Carle’s NCI Community Oncology Research Program, optimizing collaboration between cancer researchers and clinicians to improve cancer prevention efforts,...
Sandra Rodriguez-Zas is helping find ways to prevent and cure diseases in both livestock and humans. She uses biostatistics and computational approaches to identify biomarkers and molecular pathways associated with health, reproduction, and performance in livestock...
Jason Ridlon is helping find treatment strategies to improve human health and animal well-being. He studies gut microbiology, specifically the biochemistry and molecular biology of steroid and bile acid biotransformations by the gut microbiota. He is trying to...
Erik Procko’s research primarily investigates the structures, functions, and mechanisms of transmembrane receptors and transporters, applying methods in cell biology, biochemistry, structural biology, and biophysics. Currently, the Procko lab integrates...
Supriya Prasanth’s laboratory is focused on understanding how replication initiation is coordinated with chromatin organization and cell cycle progression. Defects in accurate replication and faithful chromosome segregation cause genomic instability, a hallmark...
Pablo Perez-Pinera has a broad background and extensive experience in genome engineering, gene editing, and regulation of gene expression with artificial transcription factors. Perez-Pinera’s work has been critical forunderstanding activation of native gene...
Jian Peng has a broad background in bioinformatics and computational biology, with specific training and expertise in developing statistical and algorithmic methods for biological data analysis. His research includes large-scale data integration, network biology,...
Michael Oelze’s research utilizes ultrasound technology for improving cancer diagnosis and monitoring of cancer therapy to detect early response and predict patient outcomes. The Oelze lab has been focusing on quantitative ultrasound techniques to improve...
