If personalized medicine is on the cutting edge of disease diagnosis and treatment, Dr. Surangi Jayawardena’s research is on the cutting edge of personalized medicine. In fact, it’s hard to get much more pioneering than designing theranostic systems that incorporate both in-vitro diagnostic and therapeutic elements to nanosystems, the former through the inherent properties of nanomaterial fluorescence magnetic or surface plasmon resonance and the latter through the surface and core modification of nanomaterials for the purpose of transporting biorecognition molecules, small molecule drugs for targeted therapy.