Yogesh Vohra is the CDAC Academic Partner from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the founding Director of the UAB Center for Nanoscale Materials and Biointegration (CNMB) at UAB. CNMB is an interdisciplinary research and student-training center focusing (i) on the synthesis and characterization of nanoscale materials and structures that have potential biomedical applicability and (ii) on the integration of these nano-materials and -structures into practical biomedical devices and technologies. CNMB currently has thirty-six faculty members at UAB and has active research grants from National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, NASA, and US Department of Education.