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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

Research 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
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Guillermo Ameer

Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Surgery

Phone: 847-467-2992

Research 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

Research areas: properties and performance of materials; nanostructures; inorganic/organic hybrids; biomolecular nanopatterns; atomic-scale structure-property relationships

Affiliations:

  • McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science

John Marko

Professor of Molecular Biosciences

Phone: 847-467-1276

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

Research 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

Research 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

Research 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

Research 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

Hao F. Zhang

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Phone: 847-491-2946

Research areas: biomedical optics: optical coherence tomography; super-resolution optical imaging; ophthalmic imaging; single-molecular imaging

Affiliations:

  • McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
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