Restriction: Permission of department. Students must apply through the VIP@Maryland application process in order to join a VIP team.

Our research focuses on the design of nucleotide-based Biosensors and point-of-care diagnostics for human and Environmental health-related challenges. Students conduct research in the field of synthetic biology, which is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of engineering and biology. Students work in small teams to design, build, and test biosensors using molecular biology laboratory techniques. This research group actively collaborates and is co-located with a connected undergraduate research group - FIRE Molecular Diagnostics.