Sensing From Within
Our Research
Our lab develops micro-fabricated sensors using computer chip technology to tackle various challenges in cancer therapy. These devices, placed within the body, exponentially increase sensitivity by being just microns from the tumor and provide in vivo detection in real-time, enabling computation and communication, and potential control over the tumor microenvironment, placing the physician and modern-day therapeutic and diagnostic tools within the patient.
Our Lab
Welcome to Anwarlab, where we strive to tackle real-world challenges in cancer therapy - across surgery, radiation, and novel therapeutics like immunotherapy - through a highly multidisciplinary approach. Our team, which consists of physician-scientists, graduate students and post-docs across EECS, Bioengineering, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, at UC Berkeley and UCSF, merges the fields of electrical engineering, electronic-photonic systems, biology and to develop microelectronic sensors that directly interface with the cellular and biochemical world, inside of us.
By combining our knowledge and expertise, we aim to understand the fundamental biological problems and design integrated systems and sensors that evaluate therapy efficacy and cancer progression from inside the body. We are passionate about our research and committed to advancing the field of cancer therapy. Our work is supported across the NSF, DOD, NIH and philanthropy, including the NIH's prestigious DP2 New Innovator Award for implantable imagers (read more here)
We are moving several of these platforms into the clinic over the next 2-3 years. Join us on this adventure!
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IEEE Spectrum covered a story about our work Tiny Sensor Aims to Monitor Tumors in Real Time. (April 2024)
Our paper titled "Monolithic Electronic–Biophotonic System-on-Chip for Label-Free Real-Time Molecular Sensing" has been published in TBioCAS! Congrats to Christos and team! (April 2024)
Rahul passed his PhD Qualifying Exam! (Mar 2024)
Our paper titled "Towards A Wireless Image Sensor for Real-Time Fluorescence Microscopy in Cancer Therapy" has been published in TBioCAS! Congrats to Rozhan and team! (Mar 2024).
Rozhan and Micah presented our paper "A Fully Wireless, Miniaturized, Multicolor Fluorescence Image Sensor Impant for Real-Time Monitoring in Cancer Therapy" at ISSCC 2024. Congrats to the team on a successful presentation and demo session! Stay tuned for the journal publication. (Feb 2024) 🔖
Our paper titled "Multicolor fluorescence microscopy for surgical guidance using a chip-scale imager with a low-NA fiber optic plate and a multi-bandpass interference filter" is published in Biomedical Optics Express. Congrats Micah and team! (Feb 2024)
Our paper titled "Low cost, high temporal resolution optical fiber-based γ-photon sensor for real-time pre-clinical evaluation of cancer-targeting radiopharmaceuticals" is published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Congrats Rahul and team! (Jan 2024)
Our paper titled "SENTRI: Single-Particle Energy Transducer for Radionuclide Injections for Personalized Targeted Radionuclide Cancer Therapy" is published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. Congrats KyoungTae and team! (Dec 2023)
Micah passed his PhD Qualifying Exam! (Dec 2023)
Rozhan received the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award. (Dec 2023)
Abijeet Singh joins the lab as a new postdoc focusing on implantable biosensors for cancer. Welcome! (Dec 2023)
Our paper titled "A Fully Wireless, Miniaturized, Multicolor Fluorescence Image Sensor Implant for Real-Time Monitoring in Cancer Therapy" has been accepted to ISSCC 2024. Come see INSITE as a Demo session in Feb 2024!
Jade and Rozhan are selected as 2024 SSCS Rising Stars. Big Congrats! (Nov 2023)
Alec Vercruysse joins the lab as a first year PhD student. Welcome! (August 2023).
The Anwar Lab is awarded an R01 from the NIH/NCI for nanoparticle imaging. Onward to new discoveries! Read more here. (July 2023)
The Anwar Lab is awarded a DOD IDEA Award for Prostate Cancer - centering on chip-scale single particle radiation sensors for theranostics. (June 2023)