Ishan Barman is an associate professor of mechanical engineering with a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research focuses on bioengineering, optics, and spectroscopy, with a particular interest in developing integrative photonics solutions to complex problems in biological research and diagnosis. He seeks to advance photonics methods for applications in clinical diagnosis, on the comprehensive characterization of biomolecules, the investigation of pharmaceutical drugs and their interaction with biological systems, and on rapid measurements in microfluidic platforms.
Barman received his BTech at the Indian Institute of Technology (2005) and his SM and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 and 2011 respectively. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laser Biomedical Research Center at MIT, Barman established his independent group, the Barman Laboratory, at Johns Hopkins in 2014. By combining optical spectroscopy, chemical imaging, and nanoplasmonics, the Barman Laboratory integrates insight about structural and molecular data to develop noninvasive approaches to disease mechanisms.
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The test, being developed by a research team led by Johns Hopkins engineer Ishan Barman, is seen as an alternative to current rapid tests that require blood draws