Team

Core team members expertise:

Elisa Riedo

Co-Director of NBX, Herman F. Mark Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Physics at NYU’s College of Arts and Science, Director of Faculty Development
Research: Advanced Methods for Nanofabrication, Bioelectronics, NanoMaterials and Nanometrology

Davood Shahrjerdi

Co-Director of NBX, Director of the Nanofabrication Cleanroom, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon
Research: Nanotechnology, Flexible Electronics, Bioelectronics

Andreas Hielscher

Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; Operations Co-Director.
Research: Biomedical Imaging, Medical Instrumentation, Biophotonics, Biomedical Optics

David Truong

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Research: Synthetic Biology, Cell therapies, Immunotherapy, Regenerative medicine, Genome engineering, Cancer

Dora Angelaki

Professor of Neural Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research: Circuitry, Models of Navigation, Multi-Sensory Integration

Irene de Lazaro

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Director, NanoBioengineering for Tissue Reprogramming and Regeneration Laboratory
Research: Nanomedicine, 2D nanomaterials, Cell reprogramming, Immunotherapy, Regenerative Medicine

Jin Montclare

Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NYU Tandon; Director of the Convergence of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute
Research: Protein engineering chemical biology biomaterials self-assembly artificial proteins biocatalyis, sustainability

Katsuo Kurabayashi

Professor and Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at NYU Tandon; Co-Director of Operations
Research: Biosensors, Biomedical Microelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS), Lab on a Chip, Biomedical Instrumentation

Marcus Weck

Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Associate Director of the Molecular Design Institute
Research: Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Materials Science

Margaret Rice

Professor of Neurosurgery, and of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Research: Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology of the Nigrostriatal Dopamine Pathway

Nathalie Pinkerton

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research: Nanomedicine, Responsive Soft Materials, Nanotechnology, Continuous Flow Manufacturing, Precise Pain NanoTherapeutics

Paramjit Arora

Professor of Chemistry
Research: Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Rose Faghih

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research: Data Science for Biomedicine, Neural Signal Processing, Wearable Computing, Cyber Physical Systems

Rumi Chunara

Director of the Center for Health Data Science, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Biostatistics
Research: Public and Population Health, Socio-Environmental Determinants, Machine Learning/AI and Social Computing

S. Farokh Atashzar

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University
Research: NeuroRehabilitation Robotics, Deep BioSignal Processing, Haptics, Smart Prosthetics, Human-Robot Interaction, AI

Weiqiang Chen

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Research: Lab-on-a-Chip, Biosensors, Mechanobiology, Stem Cell, Cancer Biology, Immune Engineering, Micro/Nanobiotechnology

Giuseppe Maria de Peppo

Industry Associate Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Research: Biomaterials, medical devices, stem cells, tissue engineering, nanotechnology, and biosensing

Hamed Rahmani

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University
Research: Integrated Circuits and Systems for Intelligent Sensing and Communication for emerging applications