Collin Kaufman Develops Spinobot

MBM Trainee Collin Kaufman has recently explanted an intact rat’s spinal cord into a biobot with a 3-D muscle system made of engineered tissue. The biological-robot hybrid could pave the way to major medical advances.

“When we looked more deeply …

Rashid Bashir Co-Leads Coronavirus Detection Research

Rashid BashirMBM faculty Rashid Bashir recently co-led a project to develop a smartphone-based device to detect coronavirus. The device is an inexpensive smartphone accessory that can detect viral and bacterial pathogens in about 30 minutes. The team of researchers is adapting …

MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, 2019

Brad Sutton Daniel Llano Justin Rhodes

Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2019 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …

New Beckman grants compliment MBM research

Hyunjoon Kong in his labMultiple MBM faculty and trainees will combine their efforts to facilitate two new grant programs from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, in collaboration with Beckman Institute’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition research group.

Hyunjoon Kong’s research …

MBM Welcomes New Trainees!

The MBM Program is proud to announce that we will have three new trainees beginning in January:

Sara Bell

Sara Bell is a second-year Chemistry student. Her current research is in characterizing neurotransmitter dynamics in the rodent brain using a range of …