Professor, Bioengineering
Research: Nanotechnology, Biosensors, and Tissue Engineering

Additional Campus Affiliations

Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Lab
Professor, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, Coordinated Science Lab
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Recent Publications

Chen, S., Huang, S., Son, J., Han, E., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Huang, P. Y., King, W. P., van der Zande, A. M., & Bashir, R. (2025). Detecting DNA translocation through a nanopore using a van der Waals heterojunction diode. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(18), Article e2422135122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422135122

Lim, J., Van, A. B., Koprowski, K., Wester, M., Valera, E., & Bashir, R. (2025). Amplification-free, OR-gated CRISPR-Cascade reaction for pathogen detection in blood samples. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(11), Article e2420166122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420166122

Lim, J., Koprowski, K., Wester, M., Valera, E., & Bashir, R. (2025). Review on biphasic blood drying method for rapid pathogen detection in bloodstream infections. SLAS Technology, 32, Article 100276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.slast.2025.100276

Nik Zulkarnine, N. H., Faramarzi, V., Huang, S., Chandrasekar, N., Perala, R. S., Park, J. S., Koprowski, K., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Darsi, S., Adoni, M., Kim, A. Y., Baek, J., Valera, E., Ryu, J., van der Zande, A. M., Kim, M. J., Park, I., Bashir, R., & Hwang, M. T. (2025). Multi-modal biosensing enabled by on-chip nano-corrugated graphene. Device, 3(2), Article 100572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.device.2024.100572

Chen, S., Zhang, Y., King, W. P., Bashir, R., & van der Zande, A. M. (2024). Edge-Passivated Monolayer WSe2 Nanoribbon Transistors. Advanced Materials, 36(39), Article 2313694. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202313694

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