Faculty
Professor & Chair
Research Interests: Molecular imaging, nanotechnology, devices, and therapeutic interventions
Professor & Vice Chair for Education
Research Interests: Cell motility and mechanics, corneal repair and regeneration, in vivo confocal imaging
Associate Professor & Research Director
Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, systems development, image-guided surgery for improved cancer treatment, preclinical models of human disease
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, biomaterials, implantable biodegradable systems, cancer biology, tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy, cancer biomarkers, drug delivery systems, nanotechnology, boron neutron capture therapy
Instructor
Research Interests: Sub-cellular characterization of molecular events in cancer models, identification, designing, and validation of targeted fluorescence probes and novel therapeutic strategies (Cerenkov therapy, immunotherapy, small molecular inhibitor, and combination therapy) for cancer management
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Genetic engineering and genome editors, nucleic acid-based therapeutics; nanomedicine
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Instrumentation, machine learning, Raman spectroscopy, translational biophotonics
Professor
Research Interests: Materials chemistry and engineering, genomic medicines and novel non-viral drug delivery systems
Shaw-Wei David Tsen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Laser-stimulated pathogen inactivation, drug delivery, cancer prevention, aging research
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Instrumentation focusing on optical, ultrasonic, and hybrid for sensing structural and molecular processes through soft biological tissue, portable devices
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interventional devices for translational research in coronary artery disease, real-time tracking and modeling of the dynamic pathobiological information on coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis biology for disease prevention