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The vision of the Infectious Diseases Engineering Advances (IDEAs) Center is to provide breakthrough innovations for infectious diseases diagnosis, treatment and prevention through the collaborative activities of engineers and medical scientists. Read more

Members

IDEAs Members 

View all researchers associated with IDEAs here

Research Focus

Focus
  • Engineered alternatives to classical antibiotics
  • Platforms for rapid pathogen diagnosis and patient monitoring
  • Next generation vaccine technologies
  • Nanoparticle based therapeutics for pathogens and sepsis
  • Multi-omic data analytics for pathogen and host microbiome

Specific Areas of Study
  • Big data analytics of infectious pathogens and antibiotic resistance
  • Nanoengineering for antibiotic delivery, vaccines and sepsis treatment
  • Novel vaccine technologies for emerging viral and bacterial pathogens
  • Microbiome based treatments and preventative strategies
  • Rapid diagnostics platforms for pathogen detection and host response
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for infectious disease management

Interactions With Other Centers
  • Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering (WCBE): education
  • von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center: intellectual property, venture capital
  • There will also be interactions with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering regarding Epitope discovery algorithms

Medical Translation
  • More rapid diagnosis and personalized therapy of difficult infections
  • Nanoparticle-based systems for drug delivery and virulence factor neutralization
  • Precision therapeutics that preserve and leverage the human microbiome
  • Rapid vaccine development for emerging viral pathogens
  • Immune profiling and immune boosting to boost infectious resistance
  • Advanced data analytics and machine learning for infectious disease management

Research Papers and News Articles

Center Related Research Papers and News Articles

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