BBCE Research
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Hunt Wins National Continuing Educator Award
Mizzou Engineering Associate Prof. and E-Learning Strategic Initiatives Fellow Heather Hunt in the Department of Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering has won the 2020 Adelle F. Robertson Emerging Professional Continuing Educator Award from the University Professional & Continuing Educator Association (UPCEA). Hunt received the honor for her work with the Biological Engineering Online MSNT program and her work […]
In Search of a Better Cancer Treatment
The American Cancer Society reports that approximately 25,000 people will die from leukemia this year. Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are difficult to treat and have poor prognostic outlooks, despite advances in treatments. ALL also is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in children. Bret Ulery, an assistant professor in the Department of […]
In the Department of Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering, our faculty and students work side by side every day on cutting-edge research with vital, real-world applications. Undergraduates have the opportunity to get involved with research as early as their freshman year. Our graduate students have developed skills through research projects that lead to careers in academia, start-up companies, and leading organizations including Amazon, Google, PepsiCo, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Below are just a few projects our outstanding faculty and students are currently working on.
Biomedical Engineering
- Soft materials and wearable/implantable bioelectronics and biosensors (Zhang)
- Skin-interfaced bioelectronics and biosensors
- Brain-interfaced microsystem
- Soft materials-complex colloidal systems
- Biological Optics (Yao)
- Optical Polarization Tractography
- Pupillary Light Reflex
- Biophotonics and biosensing (Grant, Yao, Gu and Tan):
- Medical imaging (CT, tissue optics, OCT, photoacoustics, ultrasound).
- Biosensing and Bioimaging (FRET, molecular rotor, optical resonator, single-molecule sensing, delayed fluorescence).
- Membrane transport and signaling (Gillis, Lee, Gu and Ding):
- Cell electrophysiology and sensing (ion channels, Ca sensing, exocytosis, bioMEMS, neuronal-glial interaction, 2-p microscopy).
- Cell mechanics (properties of astrocytes, AFM).
Bioprocess Engineering
- Biomass-based products and food engineering (Hsieh, Jacoby and Tan):
- Biofoams and biofuels.
- Food process development.
Bioenvironmental Engineering
- Sustainability science (Hall)
- Sustainable Cities
- Integrating stakeholder knowledge in water resources planning
- Developing meaningful models of social-ecological systems
- Water quality (Thompson, ASM and ARS faculty):
- Nonpoint source modeling.
- Waste management and waste water treatment.
- Partnership with USDA Agricultural Research Service:
Chemical Engineering
- Materials for adsorption, transport, separations, catalysis, and other energy-related applications (Hammond)
- Plasma-facing materials
- Nuclear materials
- Zeolites and similar porous and catalytic materials