Grants per year
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Education/Academic qualification
Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, PhD, Harvard University
… → 2001
Physics, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… → 1998
Physics, MS, St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute
… → 1996
Physics (Hons), BS, St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute
… → 1994
Research interests
- Physical genomics
- Chromatin engineering
- Cancer biomarkers
- Superresolution nanoscopy
- Computational genomics
- Visible optical coherence tomography
- New technologies for cancer diagnosis
- New technologies for cancer therapeutics
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Grants
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Intrinsic-contrast super-resolution imaging of DNA at 2-nm resolution
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
9/20/20 → 8/31/24
Project: Research project
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EFRI CEE: Engineered Retinal Epigenomics
University of Southern California, National Science Foundation
9/15/19 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
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Subproject for Subramanian and Backman
Subramanian, H. & Backman, V.
9/1/18 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
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EFRI-CEE: Epigenetic Cell Reprogramming In Situ: A Novel Tool for Regenerative Engineering
Ameer, G. A., Ntziachristos, P., Subramanian, H., Taflove, A. & Backman, V.
9/1/18 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
Research Output
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Nanoscale chromatin imaging and analysis platform bridges 4D chromatin organization with molecular function
Li, Y., Eshein, A., Virk, R. K. A., Eid, A., Wu, W., Frederick, J., VanDerway, D., Gladstein, S., Huang, K., Shim, A. R., Anthony, N. M., Bauer, G. M., Zhou, X., Agrawal, V., Pujadas, E. M., Jain, S., Esteve, G., Chandler, J. E., Nguyen, T. Q., Bleher, R. & 5 others, , Jan 1 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 1, eabe4310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Characterizing chromatin packing scaling in whole nuclei using interferometric microscopy
Eid, A., Eshein, A., Li, Y., Virk, R., van Derway, D., Zhang, D., Taflove, A. & Backman, V., Sep 1 2020, In: Optics Letters. 45, 17, p. 4810-4813 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Disordered chromatin packing regulates phenotypic plasticity
Virk, R. K. A., Wu, W., Almassalha, L. M., Bauer, G. M., Li, Y., VanDerway, D., Frederick, J., Zhang, D., Eshein, A., Roy, H. K., Szleifer, I. & Backman, V., Jan 8 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 2, eaax6232.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations -
Dynamic Crowding Regulates Transcription
Shim, A. R., Nap, R. J., Huang, K., Almassalha, L. M., Matusda, H., Backman, V. & Szleifer, I., May 5 2020, In: Biophysical Journal. 118, 9, p. 2117-2129 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Scopus citations -
Evidence for possible association of vitamin D status with cytokine storm and unregulated inflammation in COVID-19 patients
Daneshkhah, A., Agrawal, V., Eshein, A., Subramanian, H., Roy, H. K. & Backman, V., Oct 1 2020, In: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 32, 10, p. 2141-2158 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access12 Scopus citations