The Dordick group includes chemical engineers, bioengineers, materials scientists, biologists, chemists and microbiologists all focused on gaining a quantitative understanding of biological principles and applying them to advance bioengineering, materials science, and drug discovery. Specific areas of current research include enzyme structure and function at biological-material interfaces and in nonaqueous environments, high-throughput biocatalysis in drug and functional materials discovery, biochip development for identification of drug candidate toxicity and biologically-inspired nanocomposites for 2D and 3D functional architectures.