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August 2017

 
 
Department news
 
 
 
 

Smooth transition expected as Rashid Bashir joins Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Michael Insana becomes interim department head. Read on...

 
 
 

New hires strengthen BioE's expertise in nanotechnology, genetic editing, cellular imaging, biomaterials, and protein engineering. Read on...

 
 
 

Rohit Bhargava leads center that brings 90 Illinois faculty members and many post-docs and graduate students to pursue cancer-related research. Read on...

 
 
 

Princess Imoukhuede will use the $500,000 grant to investigate the process of blood vessel formation, especially as it relates to cancer therapy. Read on...

 
 
 

Jenny Amos, Rashid Bashir, Steve Boppart, Wawrzyniec Dobrucki, Kris Kilian, Dipanjan Pan, Pablo Perez-Pinera, Andrew Smith, and Brad Sutton bring a broad range of expertise to the new engineering-based college of medicine. Read on...

 
 
 

Dipanjan Pan's team will use the SBIR funding to develop a handheld device that even non-specialists can use to quickly detect severe eye injuries--whether they be on the battlefield or in the farm field. Read on...

 
 
 

The nearly $500,000 gift enables the Bioengineering department to develop an innovative, hands-on laboratory and instructional course to teach students the fundamental principles in forward-design of microscale biofabrication. Read on...

 
 
 
 
 
 
Research advances
 
 
 
 

Brian Cunningham's group develops portable transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer that analyzes samples as reliably as clinic-based instruments. Read on...

 
 
 

Kris Kilian's group has developed a chemical array to culture metastatic cancer cells so that different treatments can be tested on them. Read on...

 
 
 

Andrew Smith's novel optical crystallography method eliminates the need for slow and expensive X-ray equipment and large quantities of materials that have to be purified. Read on...

 
 
 

Rashid Bashir's group develops portable device that helps doctors identify sepsis at its onset. Read on...

 
 
 

Roy Dar recently provided the first evidence that viruses and hosts share highly similar regulatory sequences in their promoters. Read on...

 
 
 
 
Education news
 
 
 
 

Learn more about the Master of Engineering in Bioinstrumentation degree program.

 
 
 

BioE faculty and grad students introduce undergraduates to advanced imaging and microscopy technologies through hands-on research projects. Read on...

 
 
 
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