Cutting-edge Technologies in Biological Sensing and Analysis

Anh Nguyen is a research scientist for The HERO Laboratory in University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Sang Jun Sim. He joined The HERO Lab in 2019 and was promoted to his current position in 2020, working in cardiac regenerations and biosensor engineering. He has published articles in biosensors, molecular biology, and protein engineering.Sim Sang Jun is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, South Korea. He is a renowned leader in biosensors.Hung Cao is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science at UC Irvine. He is one of the pioneers in developing systems to assess the biomedical signals in zebrafish and rodent models. He directs the HERO Laboratory at UC Irvine.

• 1. Plasmonic sensors for applications in liquid biopsies 2. Analysis methods and clinical applications of circulating cell-free DNA and RNA in human blood 3. Animal models and techniques used in cardiovascular research 4. Phage based biosensors 5. Methods and challenges of tissue clearing engineering for tissue complexity 6. Novel imaging contrast agents and systems for biomedical sensing 7. Species-Independent Pipeline for Quantitative Analysis of Electroencephalogram with Application in Classification of Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice and Humans 8. Novel Image processing to restore scattered light-sheet microscopic imaging technique and its application for quantifying biomechanics 9. Assessment of cardiac functions in developing zebrafish using imaging techniques