Rashid Bashir

Rashid is an innovation leader in the development of new technologies in the biotechnology field. He has a proven track record of successfully transitioning early stage technology to commercial products at both Daktari and BioVitesse. His research interests include BioMEMS, lab on a chip, interfacing of biology and engineering from the molecular to tissue scale, and applications of semiconductor fabrication to biomedical engineering. He is currently the Dean of The Grainger College of Engineering and was previously Executive Associate Dean of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine and Head of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois. He has authored or co-authored over 220 journal papers, over 200 conference papers, and has been granted 50 patents.