Tag biotechnology
Xinyu Zhao
Professor, neuroscience
Regulation of stem cells and development in brain health and diseases, including autism and fragile X syndrome.
Kris Saha
Associate Professor, biomedical engineering; Retina Research Foundation Kathryn and Latimer Murfee Chair; WID
Leads research lab in biotechnology (gene therapy, cell therapy, gene editing, CRISPR, stem cell bioengineering) and leader in science policy and bioethics
Simon Gilroy
Professor, Botany
Expert on plant responses to stressful environments, plants and spaceflight, plant cell biology
Adel Talaat
Professor of Microbiology; Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Infectious diseases expert with focus on tuberculosis in humans, bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle. Expert in food animal vaccines.
Cody Wenthur
Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, glutamate
Christian Franck
Grainger Institute for Engineering Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expert on mechanics of materials, biological cells and tissues, traumatic brain injury, concussions
Robert Kirchdoerfer
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology
Expert on coronavirus entry into host cells and replication of viral RNA genomes. Structural biology and molecular aspects of protein machines.
Mostafa Zamanian
Associate Professor, Pathobiological Sciences
Expert on parasitic diseases of humans and animals
Brian Pfleger
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Professor
Expert on synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, applied microbiology.
Elizabeth Wright
Professor, Biochemistry
Expert on the development and use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as applied to viruses, bacteria, and human cells.
Lauren Schmitz
Assistant Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs
Expert on the interplay between social experiences, genetics, and disparities in health and aging; early life adversity and aging; ethical use of genetic data
Quanyin Hu
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department; Department of Material Sciences & Engineering
Interested in developing new cell therapy approaches and new drug delivery systems for better disease treatments.
Mohan Qin
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Experts on sustainable water and wastewater treatment
Samuel Gellman
Professor of Chemistry
Expert of the intersection between organic chemistry and biology, especially proteins and peptide-based drugs; molecular design.
Kris Sankaran
Assistant Professor, Statistics
Our lab studies interactive workflows for multiview data science. We draw inspiration from daily collaboration with researchers studying complex ecosystems, especially those within the microbiome.
Daniel Weix
Wayland E. Noland Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
Expert in organic and organometallic chemistry, chemical safety, and how organic chemistry relates to the pharmaceutical industry.
Ci Ji Lim
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Expert in eukaryotic genome maintenance, biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular biology
Christopher Gisriel
Assistant Professor
Chris is an expert in structural biology, especially as it pertains to the light reactions of photosynthesis.