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Yonggang Ke's research is highly interdisciplinary, combining chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering. His overall mission is to use interdisciplinary research tools to program nucleic-acid-based 'beautiful structures and smart devices' at the nanoscale, leveraging scientific exploration for technological applications. Specifically, his team focuses on developing new DNA self-assembly paradigms to construct DNA nanostructures with greater structural complexity, controllable sizes, and shapes. They are also working on new imaging and drug delivery systems based on DNA nanostructures, exploring the design of novel DNA-based nanodevices to understand basic biological questions at the molecular level, and developing DNA-templated protein devices to create artificial bioreactors. In cancer-related research and applications, Ke focuses on using DNA/RNA nanostructures as drug delivery vehicles and is interested in employing these nanostructures to study cancer cell biology at the molecular level.
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering • Atlanta, GA
Educator and researcher focusing on the development of advanced biomedical engineering applications.
Part of the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS). GRE is not required.