Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSB) Laboratory Ribbon Cutting

NYIT College of Arts & Sciences and NYIT College of Engineering & Computing Sciences are pleased to announce the opening of the New York Tech Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSB) laboratory, a living lab where our faculty will train students while pursuing important interdisciplinary research that integrates engineering and biology. This integration offers tremendous opportunities for solving important problems in health sciences and medicine as well as enabling a broad range of applications in diagnostics, sensing, therapeutics, and tissue engineering.

The research in the BSB lab will focus on four major themes:

• Point-of-care disease diagnostics and structural biomaterials for bone regeneration (led by Azhar llyas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Engineering & Computing Sciences)
• Bacteriophages and viruses for their therapeutic effect to treat bacterial infections (led by Bryan Gibb, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences)
• Synthetic biology approaches for understanding how nervous systems encode behaviors (led by Navin Pokala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences)
• Fate analysis of emerging contaminants such as PFAS and 1,4-dioxane in water and soil (led by David Nadler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Engineering & Computing Sciences)