Northwestern Faculty

Vadim Backman
Director of Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering
Sachs Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics
Phone: 847-491-3536
emailResearch areas: biophotonics; nanoscale imaging; physical biology of gene expression regulation; optical and molecular technologies for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics; biophysics of cellular nanostructure and nanoenvironment; cancer biomarkers
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Feinberg School of Medicine
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Guillermo Ameer
Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Surgery
Phone: 847-467-2992
emailResearch areas: on-demand, patient-specific medical devices; regenerative engineering; tissue engineering; wound healing in diabetes; monitoring and controlling the foreign body response; biomaterials and cell-material interactions; targeted delivery of therapeutic molecules, biomacromolecules, and cells
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Feinberg School of Medicine

Vinayak Dravid
Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: 847-467-1363
emailResearch areas: properties and performance of materials; nanostructures; inorganic/organic hybrids; biomolecular nanopatterns; atomic-scale structure-property relationships
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science

Research areas: biophysical methods; micromanipulation of single DNA molecules and single chromosomes; chromosome-organizing proteins and DNA topoisomerases in vitro; fluorescence microscopy; force microscopy
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Daniela Matei
Diana, Princess of Wales Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Gynecologic Oncology)
Phone: 312-472-4684
emailResearch areas: Epigenetic defects and tumor progenitor cells in ovarian cancer.
Affiliations:
- Feinberg School of Medicine

Tom O’Halloran
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
Phone: 847-491-5060
emailResearch areas: regulatory biology and chemistry of transition metal receptors involved homeostasis and oxidative stress pathways; intracellular chemistry of elements essential for growth and proliferation; nanoscale drug delivery mechanisms; anticancer agents based on arsenic, molybdenum, and platinum chemistry; metalloregulatory proteins; metallochaperone proteins
Affiliations:
- Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Ali Shilatifard
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Pediatrics
Phone: 312-503-5217
emailResearch areas: biochemistry; molecular genetics; epigenetics; pediatrics
Affiliations:
- Feinberg School of Medicine

Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Phone: 847-467-0674
emailResearch areas: molecular modeling of biointerphases; protein adsorption and biocompatible materials; lipid layers and model cell membranes; drug delivery systems; ligand-receptor binding and smart (responsive) materials
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science

Research areas: biomedical optics: optical coherence tomography; super-resolution optical imaging; ophthalmic imaging; single-molecular imaging
Affiliations:
- McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science