Dr. Bhadra pursues interdisciplinary research focused on two broad areas – molecular engineering and point-of-care technologies – with the intent of forming a nexus between scientific advances and solutions to real-world problems affecting healthcare accessibility. She undertakes multi-faceted, collaborative research in diverse fields including – (i) functional nucleic acids and strand displacement computational devices; (ii) probe technologies and colorimetric detection methods; (iii) multiplexed isothermal nucleic acid amplification assays; (iv) detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms; (v) point-of-care diagnostics and hand-held portable hardware for direct analysis of crude samples; (vi) minimization of molecular biology processes; and (vii) reducing cost and improving access to molecular biology reagents by developing easy and cheap methods for local production of diagnostic, molecular and synthetic biology reagents.