Desirable fluid properties of anti-HIV microbicidal formulations (Su Chan Park, Savas Tasoglu, Stéphane Verguet, collaboration with Prof. David Katz of Duke University and Dr.Bethany Young Holt of the UCB School of Public Health; support from the California HIV/AIDS Research Program).

Etiology and control of epileptic seizures (Beth Lopour, Savas Tasoglu, collaboration with Dr.Heidi Kirsch, UCSF Department of Neurology, Dr. Jamie Sleigh, Waikato Hospital, New Zealand; NSF fellowship support to Ms. Lopour and support from the Mary Elizabeth Rennie endowment for Epilepsy Research).

Shock wave lithotripsy: mechanisms and amelioration of vascular damage (collaboration with Prof. Pei Zhong of Duke University, Prof. John Blake of University of Birmingham (UK), Dr. Veronica Eliasson of USC, Dr. Bill Henshaw of LLNL, past support from NSF program in Biomedical Engineering).

Topological torus bifurcations and applications to ion traps (Hope Weiss, Stéphane Verguet, collaboration with Prof. Michael Hutchings of UC Berkeley Mathematics Department; past support from NSF programs in Applied Mathematics, Topology and Analytical & Surface Chemistry, NSF Fellowship support to Ms. Weiss).

Dynamics and control of microbubbles (Vera Dadok; supported by a Chancellor's Fellowship and an NSF Fellowship to Ms. Dadok).