Biotechnology, Nanotechnology & Bioengineering

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The Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Bioengineering concentration prepares students for academic and industrial careers and offers students the opportunity to pursue research in several areas including rehabilitation engineering and movement biomechanics, biomechanics and transport, cardiovascular and vascular engineering, biotechnology, nanotechnology and tissue engineering and biomaterials, imaging and signal analysis, quantitative neuroscience, medical devices and instrumentation, and eye research. Training is highly interdisciplinary and interdepartmental through research, specialized courses in advanced topics, and, in some cases, practical exposure to industrial biotechnology and industrial internships. Research opportunities in this concentration integrate many disciplines and involve collaborative efforts between preceptors from various fields. Outstanding students in this concentration may be nominated for support by the Biotechnology Predoctoral Training Program or the Ryan Nanotechnology Fellowship.

Biotechnology Pre-Doctoral Training Grant

Faculty List

	Ravi Allada, PhD Email: r-allada@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-2809 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Pancoe 2121 Research Interests: Molecular genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep
	Luis Nunes Amaral, PhD Email: amaral@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7850 Fax: (847) 491-7070 Room: Tech E150 Research Interests: Systems approach to the characterization and modeling of cellular networks
	Guillermo Ameer, PhD Email: g-ameer@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-6719 Fax: (847) 491-7645 Room: Tech E354 Research Interests: Biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biotechnology
	Vadim Backman, PhD Email:v-backman@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3536 Fax: (847) 491-4928 Room: Tech E278 Research Interests: Early cancer screening using biophotonics technologies, early physiological and molecular events in carcinogenesis, mechanisms of microvascular blood supply increase in early carcinogenesis, alteration of cell nanoarchitecture in carcinogenesis.
	Linda J. Broadbelt, PhD Email:broadbelt@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5351 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech E136 Research Interests: Multiscale modeling, complex kinetics modeling, environmental catalysis, novel biochemical pathways, and polymerization/depolymerization kinetics
	Richard F. Gaber, PhD Email: r-gaber@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5452 Fax: (847) 467-1422 Room: Cook 3135 Research Interests: Nutrient sensing and molecular chaperones
	Bartosz A. Grzybowski, PhD Email: grzybor@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3024 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech E136 Research Interests: Self-assembly in dynamic and biological systems, interactions between cells/biomolecules and nanostructured materials, cell motility and cytoskeletal dynamics, and biomimetic chemical systems
	Michael C. Jewett, PhD Email: mcjewett@genetics.med.harvard.edu Phone: TBA Fax: TBA Room:TBA Research Interests: Engineering cell-free systems for medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology
	David Kelso, PhD Email: kels@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-2167 Fax: (847) 491-4928 Room: Hogan 3-130 Research Interests: Antibody and DNA binding reactions in solution and on solid phases
	William L. Klein, PhD Email: wklein@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5510 Fax: (847) 491-5211 Room: Hogan 5-105 Research Interests: Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease
	Joshua Leonard, PhD Email: j-leonard@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7455 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech E244 Research Interests: Engineering cellular systems and biomolecules for immunotherapy
	Robert A. Linsenmeier, PhD Email: r-linsenmeier@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3043 Fax: (847) 491-4928 Room: Tech E368 Research Interests:Retinal microenvironment
	John F. Marko, PhD Email: john-marko@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-1276 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 4109 Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions; chromosome structure and dynamics; single-molecule biophysics
	Andreas Matouschek, PhD Email: matouschek@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-3570 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 4105 Research Interests: Mechanisms of macromolecular machines
	Kelly E. Mayo, PhD Email: k-mayo@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-8854 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Hogan 4-112 Research Interests: Gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system
	Thomas J. Meade, PhD Email: tmeade@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-2481 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech L110 Research Interests:Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
	William M. Miller, PhD Email: wmmiller@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-4828 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech, Rm E248 Research Interests: Expansion and controlled differentiation of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells
	Chad Mirkin, PhD Email: chadnano@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-7302 Fax: (847) 467-5123 Room: Nano 3012 Research Interests: Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3340 Fax: (847) 491-3340 Room: Cook 3129 Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Thomas V. O'Halloran, PhD Email: t-ohalloran@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5060 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Pancoe 1121 Research Interests: Metalloregulatory proteins
	Ishwar Radhakrishnan, PhD Email: i-radhakrishnan@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-1173 Fax: (847) 467-6489 Room: Cook 4135 Research Interests:Structure, function and dynamics of proteins involved in eukaryotic gene regulation
	Lonnie Shea, PhD Email: l-shea@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7043 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech E156 Research Interests:Regenerative medicine, gene and drug delivery, biomaterials
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5653 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech M292 Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Erik J. Sontheimer, PhD Email: erik@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-6880 Fax: (847) 491-4461 Room: Cook 3137 Research Interests: Ribonucleoproteins and eukaryotic gene expression
	Olke Uhlenbeck, PhD Email: o-uhlenbeck@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5139 Fax: (847) 491-5444 Room: Cook 4143 Research Interests: RNA biochemistry
	Yun Wang, PhD Email: yun-wang@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7232 Fax: (847) 491-4011 Room: Tech A330 Research Interests: Medical and environmental microbiology, aquatic geochemistry
	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Email: tkw@northwestern.edu Phone: (312) 503-2503 Fax: (312) 503-0189 Room: Lurie 10-119 Research Interests: Regulation of ovarian follicle growth