The Molecular Biophysics and Bioengineering (MBB) research group integrates a range of cross-disciplinary expertise that focuses on the integration of biology with biophysics and bioengineering. Specifically the MBB group is actively developing improved strategies to study and control cellular functions and biomolecules, to develop optimized molecules, processes and procedures that will lead to enhanced therapeutics, more effective diagnostic devices and molecular markers. The MBB group also incorporates a number of broader areas including chemistry and physics to complement and enhance the bioengineering and biophysics fields, particularly within the biomedical science area.

The focus of the Biosensors and Bioengineering Research Laboratory (BBRL) is directed towards the development of biosensors and self-assembling protein nanoparticles. In addition, acoustic, optical and microelectronic transducers are developed within this laboratory with the general aim directed towards biomedical applications. The research activities are focused in signal generating devices as well as signal processing and data modelling devices to extract accurate and relevant information from complex biological samples. This laboratory also uses computational fluid dynamics to design microfluidic devices and models mass transfer mechanisms that are associated with the binding mechanisms that occur on the biosensor surface. This research laboratory develops protein nanoparticles that integrate biomolecule design and bioprocess engineering approaches which combine molecular modelling, bioprocessing and protein engineering which can predict and simulate protein self-assembly, docking, and binding. This allows this group to conduct rational design of novel bioprocessing strategies for optimal nanoparticle production.