Rohit Bhargava

About Rohit Bhargava

Rohit is Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pioneering the concept of using chemical imaging to perform stain-free pathology, Rohit has developed technology that harnesses optics to measure the chemical composition of tissue without dyes or stains. Using artificial intelligence, the data can be represented as traditional stained images – and the chemical content allows greater insight than morphology alone. The funniest moment of his career? “Originally trained as an engineer, I once asked why an NIH lecture on prostate cancer was focused solely on men.”