Dr. Nagrath develops advanced MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) tools to isolate cells in the blood, characterize them, and study their circulation to understand cell trafficking. Dr. Nagrath is best known for the application of these smart devices in cancer, but she is now applying them to ALS. In ALS, She is not only studying cells in the blood, but also in tissue and spinal cord samples from our ALS Biorepository in hopes of better understanding disease progression in ALS.
Her future efforts will include designing and developing smart chips using microfluidics and nanotechnology to impact medicine and life sciences with the end goal of creating cutting-edge engineering solutions for clinical medicine using novel translational biomedical research tools. Dr. Nagrath strongly believes in building a team where engineers, biologists and clinicians will come together to solve complex problems with better approaches.