INBT - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Budget Analyst

Aliya is responsible for supporting INBT in a variety of ways including administrative and financial tasks. She serves as a point of contact for the institutes faculty, staff, and students on questions regarding transaction logistics, policies, and procedures. Aliya joined INBT in 2023 after having worked at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

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• Senior Administrative Coordinator to Hai - Quan Mao
• Senior Administrative Coordinator to Hai - Quan Mao and Sashank Reddy

Ashley Moore is the senior administrative coordinator to Hai-Quan Mao, PhD and Sashank Reddy, MD, PhD. She is the main point of contact for people who need to meet with them and manages their phone calls, appointments, calendars, and correspondences. She also coordinates seminars for the INBT's faculty, students, and staff. Ashley joined the INBT in 2022 after having worked in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery since 2017.

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• Certified Research Administrator
• Senior Administrative Manager

Carla Dodd oversees the INBT's administrative, financial, academic, and operational activities. She works closely with the INBT's directors and staff to provide professional, high-quality support to researchers and students to improve processes, policies, and lead long-term strategies. In addition to overseeing the INBT's research portfolio, Dodd and the finance team supervisor and mentor trainees in the Johns Hopkins Research Administration Program. Dodd is a certified research administrator and joined the INBT in the fall of 2016 as a grants and contracts analyst. As INBT's finance team grew, she was promoted to senior grants and contracts analyst and then grants and contracts manager in 2020. In 2023, Dodd was promoted to senior administrative manager. Prior to working at the INBT, Dodd worked in the research administrative profession at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Northwestern University. She has been nominated for several awards over the years at the Whiting School of Engineering, including Rookie-of-the-Year and Excellence Awards. She received the Excellence Award in 2023, which recognizes the hardworking and talented staff at the WSE who advances its mission, demonstrate superior leadership, and motivate and inspire those around them.

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• Director of Corporate Partnerships

David Lee is responsible with promoting INBT's research and education activities to internal and external audiences, and facilitating new and existing engagements with industry partners He does this through developing and conducting proactive strategic planning, consensus building, and marketing. He also manages the INBT Master's Co-Op program for the Whiting School of Engineering in conjunction with the Academic Program Administrator. Before joining the INBT in November 2021, he earned his JD from Boston University School of Law and worked for a biotech startup in Korea where he led its overseas strategy and business development. David enjoys building collaborative professional relationships that embodies the adage, "If you want to go far, go together."

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• Co - Founder and Former Co - Director

Denis Wirtz is a co-founder and former co-director of INBT. He is the Vice Provost for Research and director of the NCI-funded Physical Sciences-Oncology Center under INBT. He has joint appointments in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and and Oncology is the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering. His research involves the properties and interactions between adjacent cells and the role of cellular architecture in nuclear shape and gene expression. Cell biophysics, single molecule manipulation studies, intracellular particle trafficking, and nanotechnology in biology and medicine are among his other research projects. Dr. Wirtz earned his Engineering Physics degree at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and M.Sc. and PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University in 1993. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1994 and has joint appointments. He was a winner of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award and the Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Foundation Award.

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• Assistant Professor

Dingchang Lin is an assistant professor of materials science and engineering. His research group develops biomolecules, materials and electronic devices for probing and modulation in biological systems, especially the central nervous system. These tools will allow new possibilities in basic science and/or provide translatable solutions for clinical applications. The Lin Lab is well funded by NIH NIGMS, JHU start-up fund, Discovery Award and several other Grants/Awards.

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• Professor

Efie Kokkoli, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a core researcher of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), is a targeted drug delivery specialist. She engineers innovative functionalized biomaterials and targeted nanoparticles for the delivery of therapeutics to help transform methods of cancer treatment. Kokkoli's research focuses on DNA nanotechnology, multi-targeted gene and drug delivery, and the design of biopolymers and responsive hydrogels. Her team creates novel nanoparticles that have specificity for cancer cells, can respond to triggers such as temperature or pH, and are capable of carrying different therapeutics to tumor sites while sparing healthy tissues. Her group also designs thermosensitive and biodegradable polymeric hydrogels that can be used for local delivery of drugs to different sites of interest, or as scaffolds for 3D cell entrapment. Kokkoli received her diploma in chemical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, MS and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2018, she was a Shell Land Grant Chair professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. Her professional awards include the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, the Institute of Technology Best Professor Award, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, and was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

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• Communications Associate

Gina manages INBT's strategic communications by translating the Institute's innovative and revolutionary research to diverse audiences over multiple platforms. Her combined expertise in science, communication, creative storytelling, teaching, and more helps her to promote INBT's extraordinary presence in the nanotechnology field. Every year she is the project leader of the Nano-Bio Report, INBT's annual magazine, and the Nano-Bio Symposium, INBT's signature event that showcases the Institute's latest discoveries. Gina also teaches science communications workshops to students in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program and co-leads the Johns Hopkins Writer's Group. She has a bachelors of science in biology from Western Illinois University and a masters of science in science and technology journalism from Texas A&M University. In May 2023, Wadas received the Top Donor Award at the annual donor appreciation celebration from the Johns Hopkins Office of Economic Development and Community Partnerships for her leadership efforts in fostering an environment of community support to underserved and marginalized communities and establishing several community engagement programs at the Institute the past six years. In January 2024, she was recognized for her outstanding community service efforts at the 42nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration where she received the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. Wadas has also been recognized for her sustainability efforts by the Johns Hopkins Office of the Sustainability. She was listed as a sustainable hero in their 2022 Annual Report and assisted in helping the Institute for NanoBioTechnology receive the Partner of the Year Award. She has also been nominated for the Whiting School of Engineering Rookie of the Year award in 2018 and the Excellence Award in 2019, 2021, and 2023.

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• Professor

Honggang Cui, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is known for work developing supramolecular nanomaterials that could be used to target cancer and human diseases. He is also the director of doctoral admissions. Cui holds a joint appointment in the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is a core researchers with the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), and an affiliate with the Wilmer Eye Institute's Center for Nanomedicine. The Cui lab exploits the unique physical, chemical and biological properties of supramolecular nanostructures to achieve new functions that the underlying molecular building units often do not carry. They work on the design, characterization, development, optimization, and evaluation of supramolecular assemblies stemming from three broad classes of functional molecules: therapeutic agents, imaging agents, and small molecule peptides. Their major areas of focus are: 1) the molecular engineering and functional assembly of therapeutic agents, and the leveraging of these assemblies for the development of new approaches and strategies to treat cancer, aging-related diseases, and wounds; 2) the development of supramolecular imaging agents for disease diagnosis and treatment; and 3) the development of an in-depth understanding of thermodynamic and kinetic factors that affect the association of small molecular building units into supramolecular polymers and their networks. Cui has won several awards and scholarships. A Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, he is a recipient of a National Sciences Foundation CAREER Award, a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award for early career faculty, and a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for research across divisions. Cui also is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Peptide Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), Controlled Release Society (CRS), and Sigma Xi. He has a been a reviewer for numerous journals and serves on the advisory board for Biomaterials Sciences. Cui received his bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China in 1999. He earned a master's degree in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2002 and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Delaware in 2007. He then completed postdoctoral work in the department of material science and engineering at Northwestern University before joining the Whiting School of Engineering faculty in 2010.

Jeffery Coller has made seminal discoveries in the area of messenger RNA stability and translation. Working from ribosomes to patients, he is pushing open this exciting field with the aim of developing novel therapeutics for devastating rare diseases, improving gene therapy manufacturing and efficacy, and exploring novel disease diagnostics. Coller studies the very essence of life: translation of the genetic code. His work has led to fundamental shifts in the understanding of gene expression by demonstrating that the genetic code is a major determinant of mRNA fate in eukaryotes, including humans. Coller examines the relationship between mRNA translation-a process in which messenger RNA is synthesized into a protein-and mRNA stability, focusing in particular on the pathways underlying mRNA degradation. He investigates what exactly signals the end of mRNA translation and the beginning of mRNA degradation, which is not yet understood but holds great potential for novel therapeutics. Coller joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2020 from Case Western Reserve University.

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• Communications Specialist

As communications specialist, Johnny helps promote INBT's mission and vision by telling the stories of the faculty and students, and the impact their exceptional work has on communities worldwide. His background in reporting has consisted of topics ranging from covering collegiate athletics to politics and hearings on Capitol Hill to gardening. Johnny joined the INBT in February 2023 and has a bachelor's degree in multiplatform journalism from the University of Maryland.

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• Grants and Contracts Analyst

Jon is responsible for overseeing several PI portfolios and conducting post award oversight for sponsored and non-sponsored accounts at the INBT. He monitors and manages budgets, spending, quarterly reviews for his PI group, as well as running monthly reports for the INBT as a whole. He aims to help researchers focus more on their research and less on their finances by ensuring that procedures run smoothly through the institute. He has a bachelors of science in business and a masters of science in financial management.

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• Assistant Professor

Jude M. Phillip is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and a core member in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University. His lab studies biological ageing dynamics in the context of health and disease. He combines fundamental engineering approaches with translational ageing and oncology research to develop strategies and technologies to probe ageing and identify mechanisms to modify ageing trajectories to drive heathy ageing. Phillip has a bachelors of engineering degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York and a PhD in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his postdoctoral work at Weil Cornell Medicine with with Leandro Cerchietti, MD and Ari Melnick, MD.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Biophysical Society
• Researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology

Kalina Hristova, core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology and professor of materials science and engineering, focuses on the structure and assembly of biological membranes. Her lab studies the thermodynamic and structural principles that underlie membrane protein folding and signal transduction across these membranes. Hristova approaches basic problems of biological relevance with the tools and mindset of an engineer. The primary focus of her work is the family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs). These receptors are often dysregulated in cancer, but basic knowledge about their function is lacking, in part because there have been no adequate quantitative methods to study the interactions that regulate their function. Hristova has dedicated her career to solving this difficult problem and filling the gaps in our knowledge. She has pioneered novel quantitative methodologies and has used these methods to gain a better understanding of RTK activation in several human RTK families. Her powerful quantitative approach to the study of RTKs has placed her in a position to broadly define the fundamental principles of RTK function by developing a new physical framework for understanding their function. She has also contributed to the understanding of the mechanism of action of membrane-active peptides, which can be used in drug delivery applications. Her current research projects focus on the mechanism of ligand functional selectivity of membrane receptors, on the role of the membrane protein interactome in regulating biological function, on the molecular mechanism of RTK-associated pathogenesis, on pH-sensitive peptides for endosomal release applications, and on peptides which can permeate cellular barriers. Hristova is a member of the Biophysical Society and the American Chemical Society. A recipient of the Biophysical Society's Dayhoff award, she is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Hristova also is an editorial board member for BBA Biomembranes and The Biophysical Journal. Hristova received her BS and MS degrees in physics from the University of Sofia in Bulgaria in 1987 and 1988, respectively. She earned a PhD in mechanical engineering and materials science from Duke University in1994. Hristova worked as a post-doctoral associate and research scientist at the University of California, Irvine, prior to joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2001.

Job Titles:

• William H. Schwarz Professor

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, the inaugural William H. Schwarz Professor, is known for his research at the intersection of engineering, biology, and medicine with applications in cancer metastasis. He is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.

Job Titles:

• Expert
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Michael Tsapatsis, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a specialist in materials for separations, catalysis, and reaction engineering, is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering. He is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). Tsapatsis is an expert in molecular sieve membrane, adsorbent and catalyst synthesis. His group was one of the first to succeed in designing hierarchical porous materials, incorporating different levels of porosity to accommodate different functions. For example, such materials maximize molecular transport speeds on the way to more selective pores where chemical transformations take place. The group also pioneered fabrication of ultra-thin molecular sieve membranes based on two-dimensional porous materials. These membranes can separate molecules based on small differences in size and shape with unprecedented selectivity and flux.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder

Peter Searson is a co-founder and former co-director of INBT. He is the Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering. Peter also has secondary appointments in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Peter also served as director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Nanotechnology Excellence from 2009 to 2015. His research interests include surface and molecular engineering and semiconductor quantum dots. His current research efforts focus on developing strategies to improve systemic delivery to a solid tumor by the enhanced permeability and retention effect, and developing in vitro models of the tumor microenvironment to visualize steps in the metastatic cascade. Peter received both his MS and PhD from the University of Manchester.

Job Titles:

• Associate Professor

Rebecca Schulman is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with secondary appointments in chemistry and computer science. She is the Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, a core researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, a member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program, the Center for Cell Dynamics, and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. She is currently the co-director of the Passport to Future Technology Leadership program for PhD students. Schulman and her research group develop intelligent and adaptive biomolecular materials and nanostructures by combining ideas from materials science, biochemistry, circuit design, soft matter physics, and cell-free synthetic biology. DNA nanotechnology enables the design of complex molecular self-assembly processes involving hundreds of different species that produce structures with virtually arbitrary features at the nanoscale. Synthetic biology now allows the design of molecular "circuits" that integrate chemical information. Schulman's group develops these techniques and uses them to produce dynamic biomaterials and smart sensors. These platform technologies can be applied to develop new assays and therapeutics for biologists, smart materials for cell culture and drug delivery, and self-assembling molecular circuits and autonomous soft micro-robots powered and controlled by biochemical reactions. Schulman's team builds these devices by applying basic tools the group has developed for dynamic self-assembly of materials and chemical circuits for self-regulation. The group focuses on the development of mechanisms for constructing massively reconfigurable materials using design principles similar to those the cytoskeleton uses. This work includes the development of mechanisms for controlling the nucleation and architecture of semiflexible filaments using the design of assembly pathways with specific energy barriers. Other work is focused on the design of molecular reaction systems (or chemical reaction networks) for regulating energy flow within materials and for sensing and responding to environmental signals. Schulman has developed new means of building and repairing molecular circuits using a technique called point-to-point assembly and has developed new classes of soft materials called "hydrogels" that can change form in response to specific biomolecular sequences (or codes), paving the way for new classes of biomedical devices, robots, and materials. Schulman is the recipient of a Hartwell Individual Biomolecular Research Award, a President's Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), a DARPA Young Faculty Award and Directors Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Turing Scholar Award, and a DOE Early Career Award. Schulman earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and her PhD in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2007. She was a postdoctoral scholar in computer science at the California Institute of Technology and a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Job Titles:

• Coordinator

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• Assistant Professor

Sangmoo Jeong is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (primary) and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (secondary), and a core member in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University. His lab is interested in how metabolic dysfunctions link to major diseases, including cancer. His lab focuses on developing technologies to detect metabolic biomarkers and/or dysfunctions and identifying the underlying mechanisms.

Job Titles:

• Associate Director
• Associate Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Sashank Reddy is Associate Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Reddy received his undergraduate degree with University Honors from Johns Hopkins and completed his MD and PhD studies at Harvard Medical School under the auspices of the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program. Dr. Reddy's current research efforts center on mechanisms of regeneration and homeostasis in skin and development of nanomaterials to support tissue regeneration and cell delivery. Dr. Reddy is also an accomplished entrepreneur and biomedical innovator. Earlier in his career he was at Third Rock Ventures where he served as a member of the founding team at Eleven Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ: SESN), and he is currently founder and President of LifeSprout, Inc. In his role as Medical Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, Dr. Reddy advises faculty and University administration on enhancing the impact of discoveries through new company creation and corporate partnerships.

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• Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sean Sun is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering. His research improves on current knowledge of cell motility, molecular motors, proteins and membranes, statistical mechanics, and theoretical biomechanics, and biophysics. Dr. Sun was a 2017 inductee as an AIMBE Fellow, for outstanding contributions to our quantitative understanding of cell mechanics, cell motility and force generation mechanisms in live cells. He received his BS from Penn State in 1994 and PhD in theoretical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.

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• Director of Academic Programs

Sulaiman manages and promotes several INBT educational programs to provide students with the training they need to be successful researchers. These programs include the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs, the Nanotechnology for Cancer Research program, and the Master's Co-Op Program, in which he works closely with the Director of Corporate Partnerships. Before joining the INBT in April 2022, Sulaiman Jenkins worked as a linguistics researcher/professor and academic program manager for various tertiary institutions domestically and abroad. He was responsible for curriculum design and development, program and staff evaluation, strategic planning for national government initiatives, academic advising, and language instruction. Sulaiman earned a bachelor's of art in law from Amherst College and a masters of art in TESOL from New York University. He loves publishing academic articles on language and social justice, has published a book called Life is Raw: The Story of a Reformed Outlaw, and was inducted into the Universal Hip Hop Museum (set to open in 2023). Sulaiman looks forward to working closely with a vibrant team and community that is dedicated to excellence and cutting-edge innovation, and he hopes to use his program administration expertise to move the INBT forward.

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• Administrative Coordinator

Terri Ware assists the INBT community and visitors with administrative needs such as building and facilities management, financial administration, and general office support. Before joining the INBT in August 2021, she worked for Site Support Services for five years as a billing clerk in the accounts receivables office where she was responsible for the submittal of invoicing, payroll, monthly reconciliation, and more. Ware received her master's in business administration in 2012 and her bachelor's in accounting in 2009. On March 1, 2024, Terri received the Outstanding Staff Award from the Men of Color Hopkins Alliance and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, Sigma Sigma Chapter. She was also nominated for the Whiting School of Engineering's Excellence Award in 2023. Ware also supports goals and programs outside of the INBT. For example, she is an ambassador for Hopkins Lactation Support Services, specifically, maintaining the lactation support room in Shaffer Hall. She also supports the Johns Hopkins Office of Sustainability in their Climate Action and Sustainability Plan in their goal to a pathway of zero waste by advising the Institute's members on proper waste bin use and being a Free Food Alert administrator.

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• Senior Grants and Contracts Analyst

Tim Allgire's work as a senior grants and contracts analyst supports INBT's faculty with proposal preparations, submission, budget development, account maintenance and oversight, billing/invoicing, reporting, compliance, and closeout for sponsored accounts. Before joining the INBT, Tim worked in the Johns Hopkins University's Controllers Office as a senior cost analyst. Tim has a bachelor's of science degree in business and management from Johns Hopkins, and enjoys providing financial and administrative assistance to support INBT's research.

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• Leader
• Louis M. Sardella Professor

Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang is the Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering who has a secondary appointment in biomedical engineering and is a core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT). His research focuses on the development of innovative micro- and nano-biotechnologies for molecular analysis and biomedical research. His vision is a healthier and more equitable world that is realized through new molecular analysis and diagnostic technologies that not only have unprecedented performances in sensitivity, specificity, speed, multiplexity, and temporal and spatial resolution, but are also affordable and accessible to the public. Wang is also a leader in the development of microfluidic technologies for rapid testing of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. He is a pioneer in droplet magnetofluidic technology and its application in point-of-care diagnostics. Droplet magnetofluidic technology facilitates automated transport of the nucleic acids captured on magnetic particles through discrete droplets of reagents within a USB disk-sized cartridge, eliminating the need for large, complex instrumentation and fluidics typically associated with clinical laboratory nucleic acid testing. Assay miniaturization with localized heat transfer enabled by magnetofluids leads to a rapid turnaround time of <15 minutes and a low assay cost of $2 per test. Employing this technology, Wang and his team created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea and determine whether a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics-all in fewer than 15 minutes. During testing from sexual health clinics in Baltimore and Kampala, Uganda, Wang's team's device correctly detected the most common strain of gonorrhea about 97% of the time. It was 100% accurate in determining whether the tested strain of gonorrhea would respond to ciprofloxacin, a medication that targets infections that are resistant to other antibiotics. Besides droplet magnetofluidic technology, Wang is an expert in droplet microfluidics and its application in single-cell and single-molecule detection. In droplet microfluidics, each cell or target molecule in a sample can be individually discretized in a tiny droplet (e.g., sub-nanoliter in volume), which elevates the local cell/target concentration and leads to rapid and sensitive detection. Using droplet microfluidics as the backbone technology, he created diagnostic devices that can detect infectious bacteria and test their antimicrobial resistance in 30 minutes for diseases such as urinary tract infections. These technologies therefore offer promising tools for clinicians to rapidly diagnose the disease-causing bacteria, prescribe proper antimicrobial treatment, and combat antimicrobial resistance. Wang is a prolific researcher and inventor. He has authored 155 journal articles and 100 conference papers and delivered 130 invited talks. He holds 36 patents, including 14 U.S. patents, 10 provisional patents, and 12 foreign patents. He has received numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the CRS Jorge Heller Award, the JALA Ten Award, and the Cohen Translational Engineering Award. He has been inducted as a Fellow in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).