Professor Amit Bhattacharya, Ph.D., CPE, is trained in the field of mechanical engineering with specialization in biomedical engineering and stress physiology. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research activities since 1971 involved projects with multidisciplinary approaches. A majority of his research activities involved collaborative projects (as P.I. or as Co-Investigator) with researchers having a wide range of expertise such as, biomechanics, engineering, medicine, physiology (human and animal), epidemiology, toxicologist, neuropsychologist and genetics.
His recent research interest in collaboration with faculty in neurology, geriatric medicine, BioMEMS/nano-technology engineering, population epidemiology and genomic information center, has focused in the areas of 1) Early/sub-clinical detection of human health/impairment when exposed to multiple risk factors of chemical (e.g. exposures to neurotoxic agents), physical (workload, physical environment) as well as personal (age, obesity, genetic) origin 2) He is also investigating the role of gene-environment interaction for determining individual susceptibility to chemical risk factors associated impairment in neurobehavioral performance.This project area has application to counter-terrorism 3) Design and development of BIOMEMS (and/or nano-technology) based sensors for remote health monitoring (tele-metered) and early detection of certain neurological and musculoskeletal disorders (bone disorders) among the elderly with special emphasis on the role of gene-environment interaction based individual susceptibility to these disorders.
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