Dr. Sadik is a Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institutes of Technology (NJIT). Until recently, Sadik was a Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Research in Advanced Sensing Technologies & Environmental Sustainability at SUNY-Binghamton. She has held appointments at Harvard University, Cornell University, and the Naval Research Laboratory. Her research areas include biosensors, surface chemistry, electrochemistry, and nanostructured conducting polymers: with emphasis on developing innovative technologies for improving human health, food safety, and the environment. Sadik has an excellent record of peer-reviewed research in biosensors and bioanalytical chemistry, publishing ~200 peer-reviewed papers and 400 invited lectures and conference contributions. These have appeared in leading journals as NanoLetters, Analytical Chemistry, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Communications, and Biosensors & Bioelectronics.
Sadik has led her team of researchers in translating basic research in biosensors to design a prototype of a portable, fully autonomous, and remotely operated sensing device, known as a U-PAC (or Ultra-Sensitive Portable Capillary Sensor). Sadik has secured over $7 million in research grants and contracts from government agencies and private sector institutions, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DTRA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Battelle, Army Research Office, Naval Research Laboratory and the Environmental Protection Agency, and by leading institutions in the private and non-profit sectors such as Procter & Gamble and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She holds five U.S. patents for her work on biosensors and nanostructured membranes. Her inventions help drive changes in many areas such as the early diagnosis of cancer, genetic testing, pain management in hospital patients, and environmental analysis.
Sadik's inventions have helped drive changes in many areas, including dentistry, pain management, and counter-terrorism. In 2003, her work was named by the Chronicles of Higher Education in the United States as "one of ten research projects across the world which could keep society safer." Professor Sadik is a fellow of major scientific academies, including Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.), The American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (USA), The African Academy of Sciences, Jefferson Science Fellow, Brian O'Connell Distinguished Fellow, and Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer. She received the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Research & Creative Activities. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Discovery Corps Senior Fellowship
Dr. Sadik was the inaugural chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology and has served as the Nanotechnology Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Environmental Science Processes and Impact. She co-edited the American Chemical Society’s Symposium Series on environmental sensors, and has organized and chaired 28 symposia/workshops at various national and international conferences. As the Co-Founder and inaugural past president of the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (www.susnano.org), Professor Sadik continues to build support for science while promoting the understanding of its broader relevance to society.
