Principal Investigator | Postdoctoral Researchers | Graduate Students
Dr. Amit JoshiDr. Joshi's research interests include molecular image-guided and remote-triggered therapies; gold nanoparticles with tunable surface plasmons for imaging and photo-thermal ablation; breast cancer imaging and therapy; near-infrared optical imaging and tomography of lymphatics; and multimodal optical-MRI contrast agent development.
Sayantan SinhaDr. Sinha received an M.Tech in Nanobiotechnology from KIIT University, where he was awarded the University medal for excellent academic achievement. He completed his Ph.D. in Nanochemistry & Chemical Biology at IIT Guwahati. He has received numerous honors, including Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Bose Science Society, BRICS Young Scientist Fellow. His research interests include nanochemistry, synthetic chemistry, and nanomedicine for anticancer and antibacterial therapeutics.
Ruth WoehlkeDr. Woehlke earned her BS degree in Applied Physics from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, during which she also completed a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She went on to pursue her PhD in Biomedical Engineering through the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin, specializing in biomedical imaging. During her training, she received numerous awards and was also awarded a research fellowship through the National Institutes of Health. Her research interests include diffractive and Fourier optics for in vivo imaging of single-cell structures and disease detection.
Dhruv Bhatnagar, B.S. Dhruv Bhatnagar is currently seeking his PhD in the Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.
NIGIL seeks to train undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral scientists in all aspects of translational, optical, and multimodal image-guided interventions while innovating imaging contrasts, methods and systems for precisely targeted treatments of human diseases. For more information on becoming a student in the Nanomedicine and Image-guided Interventions Laboratory, contact Dr. Joshi.
