Bashir receives campus leadership award

4/27/2017

Rashid Bashir is one of four professors to receive Campus Award for Excellence in Faculty Leadership.

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Bioengineering Department Head Rashid Bashir, the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, was one of four University of Illinois faculty members honored with a Campus Award for Excellence in Faculty Leadership on April 25. The Office of the Provost sponsors the campus-level awards to recognize excellence in leadership among faculty members who distinguish themselves with their vision of the future and their efforts to enable and promote others in shaping that future. 

Rashid Bashir received the Campus Award for Excellence in Faculty Leadership in April.
Rashid Bashir received the Campus Award for Excellence in Faculty Leadership in April.
Bashir is a key member of the team that developed the plans for the new engineering-based Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and he currently co-leads the curriculum development for the college. In addition to running his own research group, Bashir is a project leader for an NSF Science and Technology Center for Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems, which involves researchers from Illinois, MIT, and Georgia Tech.

Previously, Bashir was the principal investigator for an NSF training grant on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology and an NIH training grant on Cancer Nanotechnology. He was the founding interim director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center at Illinois.

Bashir is well known for his research on applying semiconductor fabrication techniques to the biomedical engineering field. His group has conducted pioneering work on a new class of miniature biological robots and point-of-care microfluidic biosensors. He has been granted 38 patents and has licensed technology to three startups and other companies.


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This story was published April 27, 2017.