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Professor Michael Keidar's Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Lab conducts advanced fundamental and applied research in plasma medicine, micropropulsion for micro and nanosatellites, and plasma nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Dr. Zhenyu Li’s current research focuses on the development of novel biosensors and medical devices using micro and nanotechnology, namely microfluidics, MEMS, nanophotonics and flexible electronics. 

Dr. Luyao Lu’s Advanced Bio-integrated Electronics Lab explores the next-generation soft, lightweight, and bio-compatible materials and devices with an emphasis on creating inorganic and organic classes of optoelectronic systems.

Professor Papa has developed an expertise in engineering novel therapeutic platforms at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine.  She focuses her work on disease processes, particularly in cancer and vascular diseases, toward the goal of designing targeted translational therapies a

Dr. Weiqun Peng received his Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2001 for research on statistical physics and soft condensed matter systems. From 2001 to 2004, he did postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego.

We are particularly interested in discovering the kind of new knowledge that brings physics to biology. Our approach is to start at the molecular level and work from bottom up on biomolecules of increasing complexity.

Professor Jason Zara has worked for 18 years in the development of novel imaging instrumentation and software to approach the detection and evaluation of epithelial cancers, epilepsy, and other human diseases. In 2006, Professor Zara received the Wallace H.

Professor Vesna Zderic’s Therapeutic Ultrasound Laboratory conducts modeling and experimental work in the area of ultrasound therapy.  Current projects include the application of ultrasound to enhance drug delivery through different biological barriers, studies of safety of therapeutic ultra