Rohit Bhargava BTech, PhD

Rohit Bhargava is Founder Professor of Engineering in the Department of Bioengineering and affiliate professor in ECE, MechSE, ChBE and Chemistry as well as the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine. He serves at the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois. Rohit’s research is focused on chemical imaging (infrared and Raman) and, more recently, on 3D printing. The major theme of his work is to uncover tumor-microenvironment factors in cancer progression using new technology. He received a dual B.Tech. degree (Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science and Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and a PhD from Case Western Reserve University (in Macromolecular Science and Engineering). Subsequently, he was a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and has been at Illinois since as Assistant Professor (2005-2011), Associate Professor (2011-2012) and Professor (2012-).