PME Distinguished Colloquium Series Seminar - Rashid Bashir

The intersection of Engineering and Biology across the Scales: Opportunities for Personalized Diagnostics and Printing Cellular Machines<br /><br />

Integration of biology, medicine, and engineering, and especially fabrication methods at the micro and nano scale offers tremendous opportunities for solving important problems in biology and medicine and to enable a wide range of applications in diagnostics, therapeutics, and tissue engineering. Specifically, microfluidics and Lab-on-Chip can realize applications in the detection of disease markers, counting of specific cells from whole blood, and for identification of nucleic acids using sensitive and specific, point-of-care and personalized technologies. The implication of these technologies for advancing personalized medicine for sepsis and cancer will be discussed. Moving up from nanotechnology and microfluidics, 3D bio-fabrication methods for biohybrid polymer devices can also be used to develop instrumented tissues for drug screening and biohybrid robotics.<br /><br />

Prof. Bashir is also the Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a premier and leading engineering college in the world. He will also present an overview of the college and some recent and ongoing educational and research moonshot projects in the college and the campus.

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