Translational Biomaterials and Bioelectronics Laboratory (TBBL)

We aspire to develop biomaterials and advanced engineering techniques for emerging areas such as body-machine interfaces, bioelectronics, skin electronics, and high throughput pathology, where lack of proper materials choices is hindering their clinical translation or is limiting their functionality. Our interdisciplinary research lies at the interface of engineering and translational medicine and focuses on development of polymer-based, wireless, implantable or wearable bioelectronics for precision health. We build soft and wireless bioelectronics that provide continuous physiological measurements that has profound implications in early diagnosis and treatment of diseases. These devices hold the potential to collect personal health data without being restricted to the conventional setting of clinical research. In the K-lab we are constantly striving to develop technologies for tackling and overcoming the growing challenges in global health.

About Layla

Layla Khalifehzadeh (formerly Razieh Khalifehzadeh) is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE). She is also a graduate faculty member of the Biological Design Graduate Program, and an affiliate faculty member of the Biodesign Institute Center for Bioelectronics & Biosensors (BB) and Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation (CBIT). Additionally, She is a graduate faculty member of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering. 

Layla received her B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and her M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology and Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington. She earned her dual-title Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Nanotechnology & Molecular Engineering under the guidance of Professor Buddy Ratner from the University of Washington. Layla pursued a unique interdisciplinary path during her postdoctoral training at the laboratories of Chemical Engineering Professor Zhenan Bao, in collaboration with the late Professor Sanjiv S. Gambhir at Stanford University. Throughout her graduate study, she received multiple awards including the pre-doctoral Clinical Research Training (TL1) scholarship from the National Center for Advancing Translational Health Science (ITHS), the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) award and Dean of Engineering Scholarship and Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation. She is also a recipient of two postdoctoral awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH T32 and prestigious and highly competitive K99/R00 award from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).

Layla is an NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) awardee and has consistently led efforts to promote diversity among underrepresented and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

Outside the lab, she enjoys hiking, camping, tap dancing, and reliving her childhood with her two young sons.

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Email: layla.zadeh@asu.edu