Northwestern University

Northwestern University is recognized nationally and internationally for its educational programs. Northwestern is home to a dozen colleges and schools across three campuses: a 240-acre campus in Evanston, a 25-acre campus in Chicago and a third campus in Doha, Qatar, collectively home to more than 90 school-based centers and more than 50 University research centers. With an interdisciplinary culture, Northwestern research spans a spectrum of areas including neuroscience, nanotechnology, biotechnology and drug discovery.  Northwestern scholars take on humanity’s toughest challenges, working collaboratively across disciplines to create breakthrough solutions — and a better world. The Office for Research provides an integrated portfolio of expert services and resources to advance these transformative efforts.

Rogers Research Group

Rogers Research Group, headed by Prof. J. Rogers, the inaugural Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemistry and Neurological Surgery, where he is also the founding Director of the newly endowed Center on Bio-Integrated Electronics.  The group seeks to understand and exploit interesting characteristics of 'soft' materials, such as polymers, liquid crystals, and biological tissues as well as hybrid combinations of them with unusual classes of micro/nanomaterials, in the form of ribbons, wires, membranes, tubes or related. The aim is to control and induce novel electronic and photonic responses in these materials; they also develop new 'soft lithographic' and biomimetic approaches for patterning them and guiding their growth. This work combines fundamental studies with forward-looking engineering efforts in a way that promotes positive feedback between the two, with an emphasis on the development of foundational capabilities in electronic and optoelectronic systems that can integrate onto and into essential organ systems of the human body.  Main focus areas include systems for studying mechanical, electrophysiological and chemical behaviours associated with the heart and brain.