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Benjamin Miller, Ph.D.
Discipline: Dermatology The collaborative environment of the Center for Future Health gives my students and me the ability to take our fundamental discoveries in molecular recognition, and use them to help people lead healthier lives. |
Towards the "Smart Bandage"Novel sensors capable of detecting and identifying human pathogens have the promise of providing a significant positive impact on human health. Whether as devices to be used in a clinical setting, or consumer products for the detection of contaminated foods or infected wounds, the development of such sensors will require a wide range of new, robust, and inexpensive technologies. In collaboration with the research groups of Philippe Fauchet, Lewis Rothberg, and the Center for Future Health at the University of Rochester, our group is working towards the development of novel organic receptors that are specific for a variety of human pathogens, and the integration of such receptors into optical devices. We have recently successfully used this technology to demonstrate the first highly selective sensor for Gram-(-) bacteria. BiographyBen Miller is a native of southwestern Ohio. He began his academic training at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, receiving A. B. degrees in German and Mathematics, and a B. S. in Chemistry. He completed graduate study in Organic Chemistry at Stanford University, under the direction of Prof. Paul Wender, and received a Ph. D. in 1994. Following a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University under the direction of Stuart Schreiber, he began his independent academic career at the University of Rochester in 1996. Prof. Miller's research program combines elements of organic synthesis, computer-aided molecular design, combinatorial chemistry, and device science.
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