Affiliated Department or Office
Interactive Media and Game Development
Education
BS Bucknell University 1997
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2003
Expert Bio
Professor Dempski's lab focuses on biomedically relevant proteins at the cell's surface. Dysfunction of these proteins results in diseases such as pancreatic cancer and Alzheimer's. In addition, we are building augmented reality programs in the life sciences space for academic and industrial applications.
Research areas/Expertise
- Alzheimer's disease
- High Performance Computing
- STEM education
- apps
- biochemistry
- bioreactors
- cell membranes
- chemistry
- computational biology
- drug discovery
- evolution
- fiber optics
- gene expression
- human-computer interaction
- life sciences
- lipids
- molecular biology
- nerve cells
- neurobiology
- neurodegenerative diseases
- nutrients
- pancreatic cancer
- proteins
- radioactive materials
- spectroscopy
- yeast
News
Media Coverage
Telegram.com
Robert Dempski, associate professor of chemistry & biochemistry, wrote an op-ed on keeping the door open to international scientific collaboration for the Telegram & Gazette.
Patents
Other Inventor(s):
Siamak Ghorbani Faal, Lindsey Prignano
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