Gang Bao, Ph.D.

College of Engineering Distinguished Professor
Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Gang Bao is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Dr. Bao received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Shandong University in China, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Lehigh University. After a few years of postdoctoral work at Peking University and UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Bao became a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, first as an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor. Dr. Bao came to Georgia Tech in the summer of 1999, joining the then newly established Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Dr. Bao has been performing research in several fields, including continuum mechanics, mechanics of composites, molecular biomechanics, biomolecular engineering and nanomedicine. His current research includes the development of dual FRET molecular beacons, peptide-linked molecular beacons, magnetic nanoparticle probes, quantum dot bioconjugates for combined optical and EM imaging, activitable molecular probes, filtration-based protein microarrays, and biofunctionalization of nanodevices. These novel technologies have been applied to cancer research, viral infection detection, and the analysis of plaque formation in cardiovascular disease.

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