Frederic Zenhausern

Professor - Phoenix

Dr. Frederic Zenhausern is Endowed Chair Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, Professor of Clinical Translational Sciences, Professor of Radiation Oncology at the College of Medicine, Phoenix, and director of the Center for Applied Nanobioscience and Medicine (ANBM) at the University of Arizona (UofA). He is also member of the Therapeutic Development Program at the University of Arizona’s Cancer Center, member of BIO5 and Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering.

Dr. Zenhausern is professor at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and a clinical investigator at Honor Health Research Institute. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Geneva’s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

Research Interest(s): Dr. Zenhausern research projects are sponsored by most of federal agencies (e.g. NIH, DoD, DoJ. NASA) highlighting the interdisciplinary and translational nature of his work. His current areas of technology development comprise organ-on-chip and microfluidic devices, point-of-care medical devices, bioassay development for broad applications in cancer biology, radiobiology, microbiome, molecular diagnostics, global health, space medicine and new drug compounds and delivery systems for personalized medicine.

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Research Interests: 
Biomedical engineering
Cancer Biology and Cancer Prevention
Drug discovery
Genetics
Molecular medicine
Nanobioscience
Toxicology