Biochemical and biomedical engineering

Marc Aucoin

Viral and non-viral gene/drug delivery; virus-like particle, viral vector and biopolymer synthesis; animal cell culture; metabolic analysis; synthetic biology; systems biology.

William A. Anderson

Heterogeneous catalysis and process engineering as applied to environmental and biochemical engineering problems.

Hector Budman

Systems biology; modelling of bioprocesses;Ìýcontrol and optimization of biochemical systems; metabolic flux analysis;Ìýbacterial and mammalian cultures;Ìýdata mining in biochemical systems.

Pu Chen

Nanotechnology;Ìýbiomaterials;Ìýbiomedical engineering;Ìýdrug and gene delivery;Ìýcolloid and surface science;Ìýinterfacial engineering;Ìýpolymer and biopolymer synthesis.

C. Perry Chou

Bioprocess development for biomanufacturing;Ìýgenetic/protein engineering;Ìýmetabolic engineering;Ìýmolecular biology;Ìýmicrobial biotechnology;Ìýgene expression;Ìýrecombinant protein production;Ìýfermentation;Ìýdownstream processing;Ìýprotein folding.

Raymond Legge

Research interests focus on protein and biomimetic engineering including separation and purification of enzymes, use of enzymes in non-conventional media, reactor design for biotransformations in non-conventional media, enzyme immobilization, immobilized enzyme kinetics, biosensor development, protein thermodynamics and stability and analysis of coupled enzymatic reactions. Research in the area of environmental engineering includes bioremediation of contaminated soils, wastewater treatment and the development of separation processes for treatment of waste effluents.

Christine Moresoli

Enzyme reaction engineering; wood pulp characterization; food processing and waste reutilization; membrane filtration processes; polymeric membrane barrier properties.

David Simakov

Biogas and biomass conversion via thermocatalytic processes; bioreactor design and modeling; mathematical modeling of gene and metabolic regulation; and reaction-diffusion processes in biological systems.

Michael K.C. Tam

Nano-structured systems from templating process; enhanced drug delivery systems;ÌýAtom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP);Ìýstimuli responsive polymeric systems;Ìýpolymer-surfactant interactions;Ìýassociative polymers for environmentally friendly coatings;Ìýmagnetic nanoparticles for novel separation processes.

Evelyn Yim

Tissue engineering;Ìýbiomaterials;Ìýstem cells;Ìýmechanobiology;Ìýcontrolled-release / drug and geneÌýdelivery;Ìýin vitro disease model;Ìýnanofabrication.