10/5/2017 Susan McKenna 2 min read
Founder Professor in Bioengineering & associate head for graduate programs in the Department of Bioengineering
Written by Susan McKenna
Joseph Irudayaraj has joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a full professor, Founder Professor in Bioengineering, and associate head for graduate programs in the Department of Bioengineering. He comes to Illinois from Purdue University, where he served as a professor of Biological Engineering and deputy director of the Bindley Bioscience Center. Irudayaraj conducts bionanotechnology research, developing tiny (nano) diagnostic tools to understand cellular mechanisms that could lead to targeted therapies or better pronoses for cancer or neurogenerative diseases.
At Illinois, his focus is to “develop optical technologies and nanoparticle sensors for epigenetic regulation and dynamic phosphorylation monitoring to understand disease etiology — with a primary focus on cancer and immunotherapy,” he said.
Irudayaraj’s appointments at Illinois include the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.
Irudayaraj holds an M.S. degree in Biosystems Engineering and an M.S. in Information and Computer Science, both from the University of Hawaii, and he earned his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at Purdue University.