Mission
To bridge engineering and clinical expertise through a collaborative platform that drives transformative progress in cancer diagnostics, theragnostics and patient care.
Objectives:
- Build an active, interdisciplinary community at UF through recruiting faculty, trainees and staff whose work intersects with opportunities to engineer solutions to the cancer problems faced by our scientific, clinical and patient communities.
- Foster new collaborations, team science grants and pilot projects by holding regular meetings, lightning talks, matchmaking activities and educational activities.
Current areas of interest include:
- Developing and sharing technologies that enable cancer research, such as:
- Three-dimensional tumor models
- Laboratory and point-of-care diagnostic technologies
- Drug carriers and imaging agents
- Imaging technologies
- Computational tools
- Artificial intelligence-driven solutions to health care problems
- Promoting the use of UF Health Cancer Institute Shared Resources, including informatics, genomics, imaging and biostatistics.
Chairs
The Cancer & Engineering Working Group leaders have complementary expertise by design. Engineering brings strength in advanced materials, imaging, data science (AI/ML), modeling and technology development, while clinical expertise harnesses those innovations in a manner that serves patients in the best possible way.
Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D.
Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering
Blanka Sharma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
For more information about the Cancer & Engineering Working Group, email ResearchDevelopment@cancer.ufl.edu.
