Rizia Bardhan

[1] She moved to Rice University for her graduate studies, where she worked under the supervision of Naomi Halas.

Bardhan completed her doctoral research at Rice, where she studied nanostructures for plasmonic enhancement.

[4] In 2020, Bardhan joined the faculty at the Iowa State University as an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering.

[5] She was awarded over $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health for her biomedical engineering program.

Bardhan combined her experience creating plasmonic nanostructures with her understanding of immunomarkers to better predict who will respond well to immunotherapy.