Professor and The South Carolina SmartState Endowed Chair in Biofabrication Engineering
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami 1999
Research Interests
Optical Imaging
Microfabrication
Cell-ECM Interaction
Email zgao@clemson.edu
Office 401-2 Rhodes Engineering Research Center
Phone 864-656-0185
Biophotonics
Coherence-based optical imaging (OCT, digital holography)
Nonlinear optics-based imaging
Laser tweezers and laser cell micropatterning techniques
Microfabrication
Engineered microenvironments for cell culture
Lab-on-a-chip cell- and tissue-culture models
Microfluidics-based laser cell-sorting system
Cell-cell and cell-ECM interactions
Electrical and mechanical couplings between cardiac cells
Neural guidance under microfabricated environments
Engineered microniche: Stem- and cancer-cell development