Rashid Bashir named to head Bioengineering Department

By Life Sciences Staff

Dr. Rashid Bashir has been named to head the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). Dr. Bashir is currently the director of the school’s Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. He will assume his new post on August 16. You can learn more about Dr. Bashir’s work at the University in this Press Release.

Dr Bashir is no stranger to Life Science Portal and Newsletter readers. Last month’s Newsletter featured an interview with him as he discussed how bionanotechnology can help solve medical problems. He was also the co-author of an article in our December 2012 Newsletter overviewing the first IEEE EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference. And at the 2012 Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference, he gave a presentation on “Microfluidics and Nanotechnology for Combatting Cancer”.