Dipanjan Pan, Ph.D.

Director of Imaging Probe Design and Fabrication Resources, University of Maryland Baltimore

"Emerging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nanomedicine Approaches for COVID-19"

Dr. Dipanjan Pan is the Director of Imaging Probe Design and Fabrication Resources at the University of Maryland Baltimore. He leads the Laboratory for Materials in Medicine (MatMed) at UMB-UMBC. MatMed’s mission is to develop next generation translatable technologies to improve human health by uniquely merging ‘molecule making’ and ‘device making’, and through innovations in nanomedicine tools and point-of-care systems. Active research themes include: nanoparticle synthesis, drug discovery/delivery, molecular imaging, and biosensing for applications in cancer stem cells, immune-therapeutics, drug-free antimicrobials, disease diagnosis/monitoring, image-guided prototyping, and COVID-19 biosensing.