Dr. Tony Hu’s research focuses on developing and validating integrated nanotechnique-based strategies for marker discovery and molecular diagnostics in peripheral blood samples to provide a translatable solution for personalized medicine. His innovations aim to fill current gaps in early detection, real-time therapy monitoring and effective prognostics. Instead of competing on lowering the detection limit of those known markers with poor specificity on disease diagnosis, Hu’s focus is to utilize nanotech-induced capabilities to discover those unknowns and to address major unsolved problems in oncology and infectious diseases.