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Prof. Hadley D Sikes
Willard Henry Dow Professor in Chemical Engineering
Primary DLC
Department of Chemical Engineering
MIT Room:
E19-502C
(617) 253-5224
sikes@mit.edu
https://cheme.mit.edu/profile/hadley-sikes/
Assistant
Tseganesh Gudeta
(617) 324-3857
tgudeta@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Biomolecular Engineering
Molecular Biotechnology
Polymer Reaction Engineering
Protein Engineering
Enzyme Engineering
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Clinical Diagnostics
Low-Cost Diagnostics
Immunoassays
Signal Amplification for Detection of Biomarkers
Research Summary
The Sikes lab engineers proteins and polymers and projects that we choose to work on all have the long term goal of improving human health. Several projects in the lab are focused on quantitative detection of biological molecules (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, sugars) in bodily fluids (blood, urine, biopsy samples). Currently targeted diseases include cancers of various tissues, malaria, and tuberculosis but the techniques we develop and use are readily generalizable.
(summary updated 8/2013)
Recent Work
Projects
August 12, 2011
Department of Chemical Engineering
Sikes Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Hadley Sikes
Related Faculty
Prof. Robert E Cohen
Raymond A (1921) and Helen E St Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus
Dr. Luis Perez-Breva
Faculty Director, MIT Innovation Teams Program
Kai-Jher Tan
Postdoctoral Associate