Leyla Esfandiari's Biography

Leyla Esfandiari, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Leyla Esfandiari received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California State University of Long Beach (CSULB) and her M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California Irvine (UCI). She completed her doctoral degree in Bioengineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2014. She is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. She holds secondary appointments in both Electrical Engineering and Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the College of Medicine. Also, she is a member of the Cincinnati Cancer Center and the Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Her research is mainly focused on developing miniaturized devices, such as sensors and actuators, that can be applied in liquid biopsy and regenerative medicine. Her research has been supported by the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. Dr. Esfandiari has won many awards, including the National Institute of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigator Research Award (MIRA) in 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2021, and the Engineering and Applied Sciences Distinguished Research Award.