UH Drug Discovery Institute

Primarily focused on biomarker discovery and therapeutic intervention of autoimmune diseases exemplified by lupus. Future research aims at the development and fabrication of novel detection systems with high sensitivity, high specificity, high reproducibility and high throughput capacity for disease surveillance. This will include chemical synthesis of nanomaterial-based probes for biomarker detection, and the development of biosensor technology. Finally, end-organ damage causes high mortality, therefore, tissue repair will be another research interest and ultimate aim of future studies of immunological diseases.