Lab Members

Dr. Jiangbing Zhou, the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering, is a biomedical engineer whose work bridges materials science and medicine. He has extensive expertise in the design and synthesis of biomaterials and their application to diverse biomedical areas, including drug and gene delivery, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. His research is particularly focused on developing novel therapeutic strategies for neurological diseases, including brain tumors, stroke, and a range of neurogenetic disorders.

Olivia Turk is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering department. She is co-advised by Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Jiangbing Zhou. Her research is focused on discovering ways to redesign and deploy cell-penetrating SLE autoantibodies as novel bioengineering reagents for the therapy of malignant and non-malignant diseases, including a novel anti-DNA antibody-gold nanoparticle approach to enhance the efficacy and safety of laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) in the management of brain tumors and/or radiation necrosis.