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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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Mazhar Adli

Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Tumor Genomics
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Science in Medicine)

Phone: 312-503-8647

Research areas: Identifying and targeting key genomic and epigenomic drivers in chronic human diseases by utilizing genome mapping and editing approaches

Affiliations:

  • 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

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

Ankit Bharat

Chief of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery
Harold L. and Margaret N. Method Professor of Surgery
Professor of Surgery (Thoracic Surgery) and Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)

Phone: 312-695-3800

Research areas: malignant and benign chest and esophageal diseases, lung preservation, transplant immunology and airway biology

Affiliations:

  • Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

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
  • Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Igor Efimov

Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology)

Phone: 312-503-8534

Research areas: development of novel biological and devices therapies, including low energy electrotherapy of arrhythmia, stretchable and flexible electronics platform, and cell reprogramming strategies

Affiliations:

  • McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
  • Feinberg School of Medicine

Zhe Ji

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Phone: 312-503-5985

Research areas: integrated computational and experimental genomics approaches to uncover basic molecular mechanisms in RNA biology and reveal novel functional roles of RNA regulation mediating cancer progression

Affiliations:

  • Feinberg School of Medicine
  • McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Aggelos Katsaggelos

Joseph Cummings Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Radiology

Phone: 847-491-7164

Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Multimedia Signal Processing, Multimedia Communications, Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Medical and Biological Signal Processing, DNA Signal Processing, Scientific Studies in the Arts

Affiliations:

  • McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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
  • Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

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
  • Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

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

Deborah Winter

Solovy/Arthritis Research Society Research Professor
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology)

Research areas: mapping the gene regulatory networks of immune cells in health and disease, particularly macrophages in rheumatic disease

Affiliations:

  • Feinberg School of Medicine

 

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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