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.