Intersection of Engineering and Medicine - Rapid Detection of Pathogens to address grand challenges in Sepsis and Infection

16th October 2025

Timing : 1 pm ET

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Infectious diseases and Sepsis are grand challenges of our times and taking a huge tole on the world at large. Integration of biology, medicine, and engineering at the micro and nano scale offers tremendous opportunities for solving important problems to enable a wide range of applications in diagnostics and detection of disease markers. Microfluidics, nanotechnology, and Lab-on-Chip can address many grand challenges in personalized diagnostics such elimination of blood culture, profiling of immune systems and disease markers, point-of-care counting of specific cells from whole blood, and for detection of nucleic acids using CRISPR based sensitive and specific personalized technologies. I will present our group’s past and recent work in the development and translation of these technologies for advancing personalized medicine for diagnosis of infection and stratification of sepsis.



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Dr. Rashid Bashir
Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
Grainger Distinguished Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Grainger College of Engineering
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chan Zuckerberg BioHub Chicago, Chicago, IL.

E-mail : rbashir@illinois.edu
Website : http://libna.mntl.illinois.edu/