Tamara Kinzer-Ursem and Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Assistant Professors of Biomedical Engineering

The Marta E. Gross Assistant Professorships in Biomedical Engineering were established by alumnus Richard Barnes and his spouse, Marta Gross. Both are engineers, he from Purdue (BS, ChE, 1969) and she from MIT (SB, ChE, 1980) and both subsequently attended law school and practiced intellectual property law in the medical device and pharmaceutical realms. They are passionate about supporting female faculty members in engineering as applied to medicine.

These professorships are also part of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering’s match program, as supported by the Regenstrief Foundation, that supports affiliated faculty members who focus on translation research for clinical impact.

Kinzer-Ursem's areas of interest include computational cell biology, systems biology, protein engineering, bionanotechnology and biosensors, protein microarray development and analysis. Learn more: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ursemlab/Home.html

Linnes conducts research in point-of-care diagnostics, pathogen detection and evaluation of therapeutic efficacy, miniaturization of molecular bioassays, rapid prototyping and low-cost health technologies, and microfluidics and paper-based diagnostics. Lean more: http://engineering.purdue.edu/LinnesLab