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sparekh@utexas.edu
512-232-3466
Office Location: BME 4.202B
Sapun Parekh
Associate Professor
Department Research Area:
Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions
Multiscale Biophysics and Biomechanics
Computational Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Chemical and nonlinear microscopy
- Molecular basis of pathology
- Microscopy instrumentation
- Molecular physics of biomaterials
- Mechano-chemical coupling in cancer
Research Focus
Parekh's research focuses on looking at changes in the chemical environment to diagnose and predict specific pathologies and properties in biological tissues. Parekh develops label-free imaging and analytical tools that use nonlinear chemical microscopy to see how they might be applied to diagnose and predict type 2 diabetes and other diseases.
Selected Publications