Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine
I am a thermal bioengineer who works in thermal biology including cryobiology (low temperature biology) and hyper-thermic biology, with broad applications of my work in therapeutics, regenerative medicine and diagnostics (sensing). Most recently I have worked in the area of nanomedicine focusing on heating properties of gold and iron oxide nanoparticles for both in vivo therapeutic, in vitro preservation and diagnostic sensing (bioassay) use. This proposal relates to the use of plasmonically active gold nanoparticles used as contrast agents to build a high sensitivity microfluidic sensor for detection of HIV in a bio assay.