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
Koprowski, K., Lim, J., Van, A. B., Wester, M., Waldhoff, T., White, K., Kumar, J., Valera, E., & Bashir, R. (2026). Gram Typing Bacteria Panels in Whole Blood Using a Biphasic Duplex-Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay. ACS Sensors, 11(3), 2366-2375. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c04177
Lee, H. K., Lim, J., Shepherd, S., Nguyen, M. T. T., Akin, L., Bacon, A., Sidavi, Y., Shurgalin, M., Cobi, A., Nikolayenko, A., Fuflyigin, V., Bashir, R., Wang, X., & Cunningham, B. T. (Accepted/In press). A dual-port, smartphone-linked, pocket-size fluorimeter for rapid molecular diagnostic assays at point-of-care. IEEE Sensors Journal. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2026.3693175
Lim, J., Van, A. B., Wester, M., Koprowski, K., Valera, E., & Bashir, R. (2026). Amplification-free dual-blocking autocatalytic CRISPR-Cascade for attomolar DNA detection with low nonspecific signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(21), Article e2537414123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2537414123
Watson, G. L., Staples, G., Carver, R., Bhargava, A., López-Espina, C., Schmalz, L., Ali, F., Antkowiak, P. S., Azad, S., Berghea, R., Chawla, L., Crisp, M., Dagan, A., Davila, F., Davila, H., DeMarco, C., Doodlesack, A., Espinosa, A., Evans, N. S., ... Shapiro, N. I. (2026). Interpretability of an FDA-authorized AI/ML sepsis diagnostic tool improved by SHAP values. JAMIA Open, 9(1), Article ooag020. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooag020
Bacon, A., Lee, H., Koprowski, K., Hoang, H., Odicho, N., Sidavi, Y., Wang, W., Do, M. N., Valera, E., Bashir, R., & Cunningham, B. T. (2025). Rapid Multiplex Detection of Viral Pathogens in Whole Blood Using Microfluidic Sample Processor and Smartphone-Linked Handheld Instrument. International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers, (2025), 906-909. https://doi.org/10.1109/Transducers61432.2025.11109294