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Professor to join Rice University
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Gang Bao, PhD, will join the faculty of Rice University effective March 1.
Bao will serve as Foyt family professor in the department of bioengineering and the CPRIT senior scholar in cancer research.
Bao currently serves as Robert A. Milton chair in biomedical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
Gang Bao
Along with his colleagues — nine of whom will join him at Rice — he has studied the genetic roots of disease, as well as the promise of nanotechnology and biomolecular approaches to treat them.
Their projects include working on targeted genome modification using engineered nucleases, the development of magnetic nanoparticles for use as contrast agents and for ablation of tumors, and the application of fluorescent molecular beacons for specific RNA detection in living cells.
“Dr. Bao has an outstanding track record of center leadership in developing and applying nanomedicine for disease diagnosis and treatment,” Michael Deem, PhD, chair of the department of bioengineering and the John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering at Rice, said in a press release. “His work in the mid-2000s involved groundbreaking contributions to the molecular imaging field.”