Bioengineering categorizes its research into six tracks: Bioimaging and Signals; Medical Product Engineering (MPE); Neural Engineering; Molecular, Cellular, and Systems Engineering (MCSE); Biomechanics; and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM).
2023 Summary of Faculty Research
Faculty Research Interests
| Faculty Name | Department | Research Interests | Research Track |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abel, Talyor J. | Medicine, Bioengineering | Use of direct brain recordings and neuroimaging to elucidate the neurophysiology of sensory and language processes in the human brain. | |
| Abramowitch, Steven David | Bioengineering | Elucidating the processes of injury, disease, and healing of connective tissues through an understanding of tissue mechanics and the complex relationships between composition, structure, and function (research summary) | Biomechanics TERM |
| Aizenstein, Howard | Medicine, Bioengineering |
MRI analyses methods, as well as their use for clinical research in aging |
Neural |
| Alavi, Amir | Civil Engineering, Bioengineering | Smart Wireless Implants, Architected Biomaterials, Self-powered Sensors, In-vivo Energy Harvesting | |
| Almarza, Alejandro | Dental Medicine, Bioengineering | Temporomandibular Joint Cartilage and Bone Regeneration and Biomechanics; functional tissue engineering techniques; development of novel bioreactors; identifying appropriate stem cell sources; genetic manipulation of cells to promote regeneration; and quantification of joint movement | Biomechanics TERM |
| Ambrosio, Fabrisia | Medicine, Bioengineering | Regenerative medicine, musculoskeletal disorders, aging, skeletal muscle injury and repair, stem cells, tissue engineering | TERM |
| Anderson, Carolyn | Medicine, Bioengineering | Development of novel molecular imaging agents that target cancer and cancer metastasis; clinical interests include translating novel PET agents for cancer imaging into humans | MCSE |
| Anderst, William | Medicine, Bioengineering | Effects of age, pathology, surgical intervention and rehabilitation on in vivo joint kinematics. Developing subject-specific computational models based on medical imaging (MRI and CT) and in vivo joint kinematics obtained using biplane radiography to estimate tissue loading during dynamic functional activities. | Biomechanics |
| Badylak, Stephen | Medicine, Bioengineering | Tissue engineering and wound healing, biomaterial/tissue interactions | Neural Engineering TERM |
| Bae, Kyong | Medicine, Bioengineering | Research focuses on quantitative and physiologic imaging and computer applications in diagnostic imaging | Biosignals |
| Pietro Bajona | Bioengineering Adjunct | Heart physiology and innovative approaches to cardiac surgery | |
| Balaban, Carey | Medicine, Bioengineering | Anatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry of vestibular function | Neural Engineering Biosignals TERM |
| Banerjee, Ipsita | Chem/Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering | Cell-substrate interaction, nanotoxicity evaluation, inflammation modeling, metamodeling of inflammation, decellularized pancreatic matrix for stem cell therapy (research summary) | TERM MCSE |
| Batista, Aaron P | Bioengineering | Neurophysiology of sensory-motor coordination, brain-machine interfaces (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biosignals |
| Becich, Michael J. | Biomedical Informatics, Bioengineering | Translational Bioinformatics; Pathology Informatics; Oncology Informatics; Tissue Banking Informatics; Research Resource Development; Personalized Medicine. | Biosignals |
| Bell, Kevin | Medicine, Bioengineering | Musculoskeletal Biomechanics, focusing on spine and device development | Biomechanics |
| Benam, Kambez | Medicine, Bioengineering | Multidisciplinary approach to design and develop bio-inspired technologies | |
| Beniash, Elia | Dental Medicine, Bioengineering | Biomineralization, with primary focus dental tissues | TERM |
| Benosman, B. Ryad | Medicine, Bioengineering | Bioengineering; retina implant; neuromorphic engineering. Leader and pioneer of neuromorphic event-based computer vision. | |
| Beschorner, Kurt E | Bioengineering | Whole-body biomechanics; tribology; ergonomics; prevention of slips, trips and falls accidents; slip resistant shoe and floor designs; prevention of falls in older adults (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| Billaud, Marie | Medicine, Bioengineering | Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in ascending aortic aneurysms; mitochondrial dysfunction in bicuspid aortic valve-associated aortic aneurysms. | TERM |
| Boninger, Michael | Medicine, Bioengineering | Assistive technology, upper extremity pain, wheelchairs, telerehabilitation | Biomechanics Neural Engineering |
| Borovetz, Harvey S | Bioengineering | Cardiovascular organ replacements for adult and pediatric patients (research summary) | MPE TERM |
| Brienza, David | SHRS, Bioengineering | Soft tissue mechanics, wheelchair seating, pressure ulcer prevention | Biomechanics MPE |
| Brigham, John C. | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Focusing on computational mechanics and solving inverse problems, Dr. Brigham’s research group is actively involved in many bioengineering-related projects. | Biomechanics |
| Brown, Bryan Nicklaus | Bioengineering | Inductive; Scaffold Based Regenerative Medicine; host innate immune interactions in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (research summary) | TERM MCSE |
| Budacki, Timothy J. | Bioengineering | Human Factors/Product Risk Management | ERM |
| Byrne, Leah | Ophthalmology, Bioengineering | Viral vector engineering, genome editing, gene therapy for retinal disease. | MCSE TERM |
| Calabro, Finnegan | Medicine, Bioengineering | Multimodal imaging to assess the development of cognitive systems through adolescence, and how mental illnesses emerge during this time | Biosignals |
| Candiotti, Jorge L. | Bioengineering | Participatory action design, control systems, and human-robot interaction | |
| Capogrosso, Marco | Neurological Surgery, Bioengineering | Interactions between electrical stimulation and the dynamics of neural circuits. Development of neurotechnologies for the restoration of arm and hand functions after motor paralysis. | |
| Castagnola, Elisa | Bioengineering | Multimodal implantable neural probes, biomaterials, conducting polymer, implant coatings, nanomaterials, neurochemical sensing, neurophysiological recordings. | Neural Engineering |
| Cham, Rakie | Bioengineering | Postural control, gross movement biomechanics, gait, falls, ergonomics (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| Chambers, April J | Health & Physical Activity, Bioengineering |
Musculoskeletal injury prevention while improving health and human performance. Biomechanics, ergonomics, human performance, injury prevention, as well as medical device design and translational research. (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| Chan, Kevin | Medicine, Bioengineering | Structural, metabolic and functional imaging of the visual system in health and disease | MCSE |
| Chen, Yu-Chih | Medicine, Bioengineering | Chen's lab aims to establish comprehensive high-throughput multi-omics single-cell analysis including genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, functional, and morphological methods. With large amounts of data collected from high-throughput single-cell multi-omics analysis, machine learning techniques can predict patient prognosis and suggest treatments for precision medicine. | |
| Chun, Young Jae | Industrial Engineering, Bioengineering | Artificial biomaterials, bio-hybrid composites, endovascular devices, diagnostic vascular implants, micro-bio-systems, and fundamental device-associated biocompatibility and development of experimental methods (research summary) | MCSE MPE |
| Collinger, Jennifer | Medicine, Bioengineering | Neurorehabilitation and brain-computer interfacing | Neural Engineering |
| Cooper, Rory | SHRS, Bioengineering | Rehabilitation engineering, biomechanics, assistive devices, and rehabilitation robotics | Biomechanics |
| Corcoran, Timothy | Medicine, Bioengineering | Aerosol drug delivery, fluid mechanics, nuclear medicine, cystic fibrosis | Biosignals MPE |
| Cui, Xinyan (Tracy) | Bioengineering | Biomaterials, conducting polymer, implant coatings, nanomaterials, neural electrode tissue interface, neural engineering, on demand drug delivery (research summary) | Neural Engineering |
| D'Amore, Antonio | Medicine, Bioengineering | Seeks to couple a mechanistic understanding of the relationship between scaffolds micro-structure, mechanics, and endogenous tissue growth with the development of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering strategies. The focus of research is on unmet clinical needs in cardiovascular diseases. | TERM |
| Davidson, Lance A | Bioengineering | Reverse engineering morphogenesis from cell motility and ECM to tissue mechanics (research summary) | TERM MCSE Biomechanics |
| Debski, Richard E | Bioengineering | Biomechanics of shoulder & knee, soft tissue injuries & repair, robotics (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| Diacovo, Thomas G. | Medicine | Understanding the biophysical properties of protein-protein interactions that are critical for supporting hemostasis and clot formation. | |
| DiCianno, Brad | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Bioengineering | Developing and studying interventions targeted to improve health and wellness in individuals with complex disabilities. Specialized areas of interest include Spina Bifida, wheelchair prescription and technology, adaptive sports, telemedicine, and virtual reality. | MPE |
| Ding, Dan | SHRS, Bioengineering | Assistive device instrumentation and monitoring; wheelchair modeling, control, test, and evaluation; rehabilitation robotics; virtual reality | Biomechanics |
| Duncan, Andrew | Medicine, Bioengineering | Elucidating mechanisms that control hepatic polyploidy and aneuploidy, as well as how these processes affect human disease | TERM |
| Dutta, Partha | Medicine, Bioengineering | Generation of inflammatory myeloid cells from hematopoietic stem cells in cardiovascular disease. Currently investigating the role of macrophages of different origins in myocardial infarction-induced insulin resistance. | |
| Ebrahimkhani, Mo | Pathology, Bioengineering |
Integration of synthetic biology and tissue engineering towards the next generation of regenerative technologies, mainly in the liver but also in other tissues. |
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| Edwards, W. Barry | Radiology, Bioengineering | Development of molecular imaging agents for optical and nuclear molecular imaging | Biosignals |
| El Gharbawie, Omar | Medicine, Bioengineering | Neuronal populations, optical imaging, neurophysiology, and anatomical methods | Neural Engineering |
| Falo, Louis | Medicine, Bioengineering | Melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers; clinical trials of novel immune therapies for psoriasis and cutaneous T cell lymphomas | MCSE MPE |
| Federspiel, William | Bioengineering | Artificial lung, cardiovascular devices, biotransport, tissue engineering (research summary) | MPE Biomechanics TERM |
| Fisher, Lee | Medicine, Bioengineering | Development and testing of electrical stimulation systems for the nervous system | Neural Engineering |
| Friberg, Thomas | Medicine, Bioengineering | Bio-mechanical properties of ocular tissues and how they are altered in diseases and disorders | TERM |
| Furman, Joseph | Medicine, Bioengineering | Improving the testing methods relating to balance system abnormalities, increasing the understanding of human inner ear (vestibular) function, and enhancing the rehabilitation of people with inner ear diseases | Neural Engineering |
| Gandhi, Neeraj | Bioengineering | Neural basis of coordinated eye and head motion (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biosignals |
| Gartner, Mark J | Bioengineering | Bioactive surface treatment development, medical product design and development, minimally invasive surgical tool design, pediatric medical product design (research summary) | MPE |
| Gaunt, Robert | Medicine, Bioengineering | Neural prostheses, brain computer interfaces, sensory feedback, bladder control, amputation, spinal cord injury. | Neural Engineering Biosignals MPE |
| Gerlach, Jörg | Medicine, Bioengineering | Bioreactor, hybrid organs, bio-artificial liver, stem cells | |
| Gilbert, Thomas | Bioengineering Adjunct | Tissue engineering/regenerative medicine applications of extracellular matrix scaffolds; Tissue engineering/regenerative medicine for the upper airway and lungs; Commercialization of tissue engineering/regenerative medicine technologies. | TERM |
| Gladwin, Mark | Medicine, Bioengineering | MCSE | |
| Gleason, Thomas | Medicine, Bioengineering | Focusing on ascending aortopathies, most notably the bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) syndrome and related diseases. | Biomechanics |
| Ghodadra, Anish | Medicine, Bioengineering | 3D printing in healthcare interventional oncology; Advanced image processing; Medical devices. | |
| Goncharova, Elena | Medicine, Bioengineering | Molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating metabolism, proliferation, motility and survival of smooth muscle cells as it relates to the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). | Biosignals |
| Gopalakrishnan, Vanathi | Biomedical Informatics, Bioengineering |
Study of biological profiling data from de-identified samples for biomarker discovery, to enable early detection, monitoring and better outcomes for various cancers and cardiovascular diseases. |
Biosignals |
| Gronenborn, Angela | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biomolecular structure and its correlation to function in transcription factor complexes, HIV-1 proteins, and signaling proteins. | MCSE |
| Hirschman, Alan D | Bioengineering | Medical product development and educating new product entrepreneurs (research summary) | MPE |
| Hung, Tin-Kan | Bioengineering | Computational fluid mechanics and biomechanics | Biomechanics |
| Huppert, Theodore | Medicine, Bioengineering | Development and testing of physiologically plausible models of cerebral physiology and the application of these models to human imaging experiments; development of new MRI, optical, EEG, and MEG methods | Biosignals |
| Ibrahim, Tamer Selim | Bioengineering | Antenna design for MRI & biological implantable devices; computational electromagnetics (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biosignals MPE |
| Imran, Mir | Bioengineering | Tissue engineering, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, orthopedics, congestive heart failure and artificial organs | |
| Iordanova, Bistra | Bioengineering | Neurometabolic and neurovascular relationships in the healthy and disease brain. Using optical imaging of transgenic mice models to uncover early vascular and metabolic events in Alzheimer’s Disease. Developing approaches for improvement of cerebral blood flow after cardiac arrest. (research summary) | Neural Engineering
MCSE |
| Jin, Tao | Medicine, Bioengineering | Development of novel metabolic MRI and functional MRI techniques for the study of physiology and diseases | Biosignals |
| Kalinski, Pawel | Medicine, Bioengineering | Role of prostanoids and proinflammatory factors in the regulation of the immune cell entry into cancer | |
| Kalra, Arush |
PECA Labs, |
Design thinking for implantable medical devices with focus on cardiovascular class III implantables | |
| Kameneva, Marina | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biorheology, hemorheology, hemodynamics and mechanical blood trauma in artificial organs | MPE TERM MCSE |
| Kandler, Karl | Medicine, Bioengineering | Understanding the mechanisms regulating and mediating neuronal plasticity in the auditory system | Neural Engineering |
| Karim, Helmet T. | Medicine, Bioengineering | Predicting treatment response to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) | |
| Kiani, Samira | Medicine, Bioengineering | Using the designer DNA binding proteins, such as CRISPR and Zinc Finger proteins, to develop novel gene and (epi)-gene editing tools for in vivo therapeutics. She applies design principles of synthetic biology to develop controllable genetic circuits and interface with gene therapies for better controllability and safety upon the clinical translations. | |
| Kellum, John | Medicine, Bioengineering | Critical care nephrology, sepsis and multi-organ failure, and clinical epidemiology | MPE MCSE |
| Kim, Kang | Medicine, Bioengineering | Development of imaging research in the Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics; high resolution nonlinear ultrasound elasticity imaging; high resolution thermal strain imaging; molecular contrast imaging | Biomechanics Biosignals |
| Kim, Tae | Medicine, Bioengineering | Cerebrovascular physiology and magnetic resonance imaging | Biosignals |
| Knight, Katrina | Bioengineering | Tissue and cellular level biomechanics; development of novel devices/treatments for urogynecological applications; understanding the impact of mechanics on vaginal cellular function; regeneration of pelvic floor muscles; elucidating the mechanic and biologic mechanisms of synthetic mesh complications. (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| Kokai, Lauren | Medicine, Bioengineering | The lab's research efforts explore innate immune mechanisms that drive aberrant extracellular matrix production, immune cell activation and generation of detrimental reactive oxygen species. | |
| Konig, Gerhardt | Medicine, Bioengineering | Autonomous control of fluid and blood product administration; perioperative technology and innovation; new sensors and devices; patient blood management; clinical dashboards. | |
| Koontz, Alicia | SHRS, Bioengineering | Rehabilitation biomechanics, upper limb injury prevention, assistive technology, and functional electrical stimulation. | Biomechanics |
| Korkmaz, Emrullah | Dermatology, Bioengineering | Engineering immunity, cutaneous immunology, transcutaneous drug delivery, translational biomaterials, skin adjuvants | |
| Kormos, Robert | Medicine, Bioengineering | Development of cardiovascular support devices for congestive Heart Failure; development and application of implantable and wearable sensors for healthcare diagnostics and maintenance | Biomechanics MPE |
| Kozai, Takashi Daniel Yoshida | Bioengineering | Elucidating how biological structures and biochemical pathways influence neurophysiology following injury and disease, as well as bidirectional communication between the nervous system and neural interface technology (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biosignals TERM |
| Kubendran, Rajkumar C. | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Low power analog and mixed signal circuit design with emerging non-volatile memory devices to build event-driven architectures for computer vision and machine learning applications | |
| Kulkarni, Mangesh | Bioengineering | Development of biomaterials based delivery systems; Molecular diagnostics and therapeutics (particularly involving non-coding RNA); Cell-free therapeutic strategies like stem cells secretome therapy; Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (research summary) | TERM MCSE |
| Kumta, Prashant N | Bioengineering | Nanostructured materials; non-viral gene and protein delivery, energy storage systems, mineralized tissue engineering (research summary) | TERM MPE |
| Lathrop, Kira | Medicine, Bioengineering | Imaging, microscopy, image analysis and quantitation, the Palisades of Vogt, optical coherence tomography | MPE |
| Laymon, Charles | Medicine, Bioengineering | Imaging instrumentation; algorithm and methods development; image processing |
Biosignals |
| Leuba, Sanford | Medicine, Bioengineering | Single-molecule approaches for the study of molecular motors and chromatin fibers in the nucleus | Biomechanics Biosignals MCSE |
| Lin, Hang | Medicine | The study of articular joint diseases, such as osteoarthritis (OA), and the development of efficacious treatments to repair injured tissues. | MCSE TERM |
| Little, Steven R. | Chem/Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering | Biomaterials, controlled release, delivery of drugs to the eye, drug delivery systems, immunotherapies, Regenerative Medicine (research summary) | MCSE TERM |
| Liu, Yang | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biomedical optics; optical spectroscopy and imaging for cancer diagnosis, surveillance and prevention. | Biosignals MCSE |
| Lotze, Michael | Medicine, Bioengineering | Tumor immunology, biomarkers, intracellular signaling, multicolor flow cytometry. | MCSE |
| Loughlin, Patrick J | Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering | Sensory integration; control of human movement; balance and gait; sensory substitution, haptics, vibrotactile feedback; brain-computer interfaces; computational models; signal processing. (research summary) | Biosignals |
| Lund, Laura | Bioengineering | Artificial lung technology, blood gas exchange, human factors engineering | |
| Mahajan, Aman | Anesthesiology, Bioinformatics, Pharmacology, Bioengineering |
MPE | |
| Mahboobin, Arash | Bioengineering | Computational biomechanics (musculoskeletal modeling), human postural control, time-varying signals and systems, and hybrid-optimization; developing muscle-actuated forward dynamic simulations of gait and posture, and analysis and modeling of human postural control | Biomechanics |
| Maiti, Spandan | Bioengineering | Computational mechanics and materials science, multiscale and multiphysics techniques applied to physical and biological systems. (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| Mallampalli, Rama | Medicine, Bioengineering | Understanding how protein degradation affects biophysical properties of lung and the design and development of small molecule therapies | MCSE |
| Mandala, Mahender | Bioengineering | Product Design and Development, Design Theory & Research, Assistive Technology & Rehabilitation, Engineering Design, Engineering Education. | MPE |
| Mao, Zhi-Hong | Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Control of networked and large-scale dynamical systems, Human-in-the-loop control systems (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biosignals |
| Marra, Kacey | Medicine, Bioengineering | Nerve regeneration, polymeric conduits, microspheres/hydrogels, stem cells | Neural Engineering TERM MCSE |
| Mayo, J. Patrick | Ophthalmology/Medicine, Bioengineering | Visual neuroscience, eye movements, neural circuits, cognition | Neural Engineering |
| McMahon, Patrick | Bioengineering Adjunct | Detailed analysis of joint anatomy, experimental and clinical analysis of ligaments and tendons involved in joint stability and techniques for improved treatments of musculoskeletal injuries such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture, shoulder osteoarthritis and rotator cuff tears. | Biomechanics |
| Menegazzi, James | Medicine, Bioengineering | Resuscitation from cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation, ventilation adjuncts, emergency medicine | MPE |
| Miller, Mark C | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Bioengineering | Rigid body dynamics and control, kinematics, orthopaedic surgery, upper extremity biomechanics, joint replacement, mechanics of tissues | Biomechanics |
| Miskov-Zivanov, Natasa | Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Biological design automation and systems and synthetic biology | |
| Moalli, Pamela | Medicine, Bioengineering | Pathophysiology and treatment of pelvic organ prolapse | Biomechanics |
| Modo, Michel | Medicine, Bioengineering | Stem cell therapy, such as neural stem cells, stem cell repair, stem cell differentiation, immunological aspects of cell therapy | TERM |
| Moyer, Brian | Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering | Characterization of human movement specifically toward the prevention of traumatic injury | Biomechanics |
| Musahl, Volker | Medicine, Bioengineering | Sports medicine; comprehensive care of injuries to the knee, shoulder, elbow, hip, and ankle | Biomechanics |
| Niepa, Tagbo | Chem/Petroleum, Bioengineering | Bacterial biofilms and engineered microbial microniches (research summary) | MCSE |
| Nishikawa, Robert | Medicine, Bioengineering | Clinical imaging; diagnostic radiology | |
| Osmanbeyoglu, Hatice | Medicine, Bioengineering | Developing integrative statistical and machine learning approaches for extracting therapeutic insight from highly heterogenous omic datasets, clinical and drug response data for the purpose of precision medicine | |
| Pacella, John | Medicine, Bioengineering | Microcirculation, coronary circulation, ultrasound, medical devices, hemodynamics | Biosignals MPE Biomechanics |
| Parker, Robert S | Chem/Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering Department | Modeling, analysis, and control of biomedical systems; nonlinear input-output model identification; model predictive control (research summary) | MCSE |
| Parthasarathy, Aravindakshan | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Bioengineering | Using a translational systems neuroscience approach to study changes in hearing across the auditory pathway in pathological conditions associated with aging and noise damage | |
| Patel, Ravi Bhasker | Medicine, Bioengineering | To utilize radiation therapy to immunomodulate a tumor microenvironment to enhance the efficacy of immunotherapy treatments in solid tumors. Dr. Ravi B. Patel’s focus is on translational research first in preclinical models to optimize dosing, timing and efficacy of combination treatments with the goal of translating these findings in the lab to early phase clinical trials in patients. | |
| Patzer, John F | Bioengineering | Tissue engineering for artificial liver, implantable glucose sensors. | TERM |
| Phillippi, Julie | Medicine, Bioengineering | Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of ascending aortic aneurysms in patients with bicuspid aortic valve and other heritable disorders | TERM MCSE |
| Pi, Shaohua | Medicine, Bioengineering | Developing optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and the relating algorithms for the diagnosis and management of eye diseases | |
| Pinsky, Michael | Medicine, Bioengineering | Complexity modeling of physiological signals to define health and disease. Use of programmable multi-site pacing to optimize LV contraction synchrony. Effectiveness of hemodynamic monitoring to drive resuscitation from circulatory shock | MCSE |
| Pitt, Bruce | GSPH, Bioengineering | Pulmonary endothelial cell biology, metal ion homeostasis, NO, oxidants | MCSE |
| Prasad, Konasale | Psychiatry, Medicine, Bioengineering | Neuroimaging, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and schizophrenia. Using cutting-edge PET and MRI methods, Dr. Prasad’s research seeks to characterize molecular markers associated with neuroinflammation in schizophrenia. | |
| Pu, Jiantao | Medicine, Bioengineering | Interface between computer science and biomedicine with focus on biomedical image analysis, biomedical informatics, computer-aided detection/diagnosis, computer graphics and vision, machine learning, and human-computer interaction | Biosignals |
| Redfern, Mark | Departments of Otolaryngology, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Bioengineering | Human postural control and ergonomics for the prevention of falling injuries by investigating the factors that influence balance (research summary) | Biomechanics Neural Engineering Biosignals |
| Robertson, Anne M | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Bioengineering | Cerebral vascular disease, constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics | Biomechanics |
| Rose, Jason | Medicine, Bioengineering |
Drug development, drug discovery, inhalational injury, toxicology, antidotal therapies | MCSE |
| Rossi, Ethan | Medicine, Bioengineering | Advanced imaging technologies with adaptive optics to study the normal and diseased retina on a microscopic scale in the living human eye | Biosignals |
| Roy, Partha | Bioengineering | Cancer biology, cytoskeleton and cell migration, angiogenesis, cell signaling, optical manipulation of proteins (research summary) | MCSE TERM |
| Rubin, Joseph | Medicine, Bioengineering | Adipose stem cell biology and applications to regenerative medicine | TERM |
| Ruder, Warren | Bioengineering | Developing new approaches in synthetic biology and linking these technologies with engineered systems that mimic cell, tissue, and organism physiology. (research summary) | MCSE |
| Sadagopan, Srivatsun | Medicine, Bioengineering | Studying the mechanisms by which such invariance properties are generated in the neural responses of primary and higher auditory cortex. In particular, we focus on one behaviorally important set of sounds - vocal communication sounds. | Neural Engineering |
| Samosky, Joseph Thomas | Bioengineering | Design and development of medical simulation systems for healthcare training and performance measurement. Medical devices and technologies including smart systems, sensors and information displays. User-centric design, interaction design, augmented reality and hybrid reality (mixed virtual and physical systems), autonomous and embedded systems. (research summary) | MPE |
| Sant, Shilpa | Pharmacy, Bioengineering | To develop tissue-engineered tumor models that recreate the three-dimensional structure, cell-cell/cell-ECM interaction, stromal environments, and signaling cues present in vivo | MCSE TERM |
| Schatten, Gerald | Medicine, Bioengineering | Developmental, reproductive and molecular medicine research from preconception through birth | TERM |
| Schneider, Walter | CAS, Bioengineering | Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control, semantic representation, attention and automaticity, skill acquisition, connectionist/hybrid modeling, brain imaging, brain activity interpretation | |
| Schuman, Joel | Medicine, Bioengineering | Ocular imaging for early detection of glaucoma and glaucoma progression, aqueous humor outflow and aqueous dynamics, laser-tissue interactions in the eye and electronic health records in ophthalmology | |
| Schwerdt, Helen | Bioengineering | Building and applying implantable tools to probe multi-modal, electrical and chemical, forms of neural activity to understand brain function and to create translatable micro-invasive interfaces to treat neurological disease in humans; dopamine and neural plasticity in motor and mood disorders | Neural Biomechanics Biosignals |
| Sejdic, Ervin | Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Advanced information systems in medicine, Anticipatory medical devices, Assistive technologies, Bioinformatics and biomimetics, Biomedical Signal Processing, Gait analysis, Rehabilitation engineering, Robot-mediated rehabilitation, Swallowing difficulties, Theoretical signal processing, Vascular aging and diseases (research summary) | Biosignals |
| Sell, Timothy | Bioengineering Adjunct | Focusing on functional joint stability (primarily of the lower extremity) and injury prevention. | Biomechanics |
| Sfeir, Charles | Medicine, Bioengineering | Role of extracellular matrix in tissue engineering and biomineralization; The use of bioceramic nanoparticles in non-viral DNA gene delivery | |
| Sharma, Nitin | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Bioengineering | Derivation of robust nonlinear control algorithms and optimal control algorithms. Goal is to restore standing and walking function in persons with spinal cord injury. (research summary) | Neural Engineering |
| Shemesh, Or | Medicine, Bioengineering | Building tools to understand diseases of the nervous system combining experience in protein and genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cell biology, neuroscience, computational biology and electrical engineering. | Neural |
| Shiwarski, Daniel | Bioengineering, Medicine, Vascular Medicine Institute | Development of novel experimental platforms and open-source hardware to investigate 3D tissue structure, extracellular matrix composition, biomechanical forces, and altered receptor signaling driving tissue maturation and disease pathology; Areas of focus include Vascular Biology, FRESH 3D bioprinting, Organ-on-Chip platforms, Regenerative Medicine, Quantitative Fluorescence Imaging, and Microfluidics. | TERM |
| Shroff, Sanjeev Govinddas | Bioengineering | Mechano-energetic function of the heart, underlying cellular processes (research summary) | Biomechanics Biosignals MCSE |
| Sigal, Ian | Medicine, Bioengineering | Ocular biomechanics, tools for microscopy and image analysis of tissue structure and mechanics, methods for simulation and modeling of fiber-based materials and mechanobiology, glaucoma and myopia (More information: www.OcularBiomechanics.org) | Biomechanics Biosignals |
| Simon, Marc | Medicine, Bioengineering | Cardiology; right ventricular structure and function; ventricular assist devices, cardiac resynchronization therapy | Biomechanics MPE |
| Smith, Matthew | Medicine, Bioengineering | Neurophysiology of vision, eye movements, and perception, chronic microelectrode recordings, neural prosthetics, computational neuroscience | Neural Engineering |
| Smithgall, Thomas | Medicine, Bioengineering | Antiretroviral and antineoplastic drug recovery and high-throughput assay design | |
| Sowa, Gwendolyn | Medicine, Bioengineering | Research on disk and spine deterioration and the mechanisms of back pain | Biomechanics TERM |
| Sparto, Patrick | SHRS, Bioengineering | Effects of aging and vestibular disease on postural control | Biomechanics |
| Star, Alexander | CAS, Bioengineering | Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, nano-bio-sensors, and nanotoxicology/drug delivery | |
| St. Hilaire, Cynthia | Medicine, Bioengineering | Mechanisms of vascular and valvular calcification; vascular extracellular matrix remodeling; cell phenotypic switching; mechanical stress and cell fate. | |
| Stetten, George Dewitt | Bioengineering | In situ image guided intervention, image analysis, open-source software (research summary) | Biosignals MPE |
| Storkus, Walter | Medicine, Bioengineering | Immunobiology and immunotherapy of melanoma and renal cell carcinoma; development of combinational immunotherapies including vaccines and immunomodulatory compounds | MCSE |
| Stuckenholz, Carsten | Bioengineering | Development of organisms and organs to treat human disease, harvesting large-scale datasets to extract biologically meaningful information, bioinformatics | |
| Sun, Mingui | Medicine, Bioengineering | Neurophysiology, detection/localization of electrical generators in the brain | Neural Engineering Biosignals |
| Sundd, Prithu | Medicine, Bioengineering | Elucidating the mechanism of WBC recruitment to sites of inflammation, role of inflammation in the complications associated with SCD and ALI | MCSE |
| Syed-Picard, Fatima | Bioengineering | 3D scaffold-less dentin and bone engineering, periosteum engineering, Bone Scaffold characterization | TERM |
| Taboas, Juan | Dental Medicine, Bioengineering | Tissue engineering of multiphasic skeletal and craniofacial tissues; microtissue fabrication with photo-patterning, biomaterial scaffolds, and microfluidic bioreactors | TERM |
| Tai, Changfeng | Medicine, Bioengineering | Bladder and sphincter functions in normal and neurological disorder condition, modeling analysis of electrical nerve stimulation, and restoring locomotion function after spinal cord injury by electrical stimulation of lumbar spinal cord | Neural Engineering |
| Tarin, Tatum | Medicine, Bioengineering | His research in Pittsburgh included harvesting human muscle from organ donors in an effort to harvest stem cells for the treatment of urologic disease | |
| Taylor, D. Lansing | Medicine, Bioengineering | Understanding the temporal-spatial dynamics of signaling molecules and proteins in living cells, coupled to defining the mechanisms of fundamental cell functions such as cell division and cell migration | |
| Taylor, Ian | Bioengineering Adjunct | Develop and optimize next generation electroanalytical sensors suitable for the detection of neurologically relevant compounds in vivo. | Neural |
| Teichert, Tobias | Medicine, Bioengineering | Building an ultrasoundbased non-invasive localized brain-drug delivery system for non-human primates | Biosignals |
| Tejero Bravo, Jesus | Medicine, Bioengineering | Reactions of nitrite and nitric oxide with heme proteins. | MCSE |
| Toosi, Kevin | Study repetitive strain injuries of nerves and connective tissues and investigate the acute and chronic change in the musculoskeletal systems by collecting and analyzing biomechanical data | ||
| Torres, Gelsy | Bioengineering | Sensorimotor learning; Generalization of motor learning; Neurorehabilitation; Posture and Gait. (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biomechanics |
| Urish, Kenneth | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biofilm dynamics with implant infection and arthroplasty implant design; medical and microscopy image analysis and classification. | Biosignals |
| Vande Geest, Jonathan | Bioengineering | Ocular, vascular, and nerve biomechanics, tissue engineering, nonlinear optical microscopy, and finite element modeling (research summary) | Biomechanics TERM |
| Vazquez, Alberto | Medicine, Bioengineering | Role and properties of dynamic neuro-vascular and neuro-metabolic couplings in normal brain function, as well as impact of pathologies on these processes using optical (two-photon microscopy, fluorescence microscopy), magnetic resonance and electrophysiological methods | Biosignals |
| Velikokhatnyi, Oleg | Bioengineering | Materials engineering (alternative energy sources and biomaterials) | |
| Viator, John | Bioengineering Adjunct | Biomedical optics, particularly in photoacoustics | Biosignals |
| Vipperman, Jeffrey S | Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Bioengineering | Many related disciplines of dynamics, vibrations, controls, analog and digital signal processing, autonomous system health monitoring, smart materials, acoustics, and structural acoustics (research summary) | MPE |
| Vodovotz, Yoram | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biology of acute inflammation in shock states, chronic inflammatory diseases, wound healing, malaria, and restenosis; mathematical modeling to unify and gain insight into the biological interactions that characterize these inflammatory conditions | Biosignals MCSE TERM |
| Vogt, Keith | Medicine, Bioengineering | Determining the effect of concomitant pain on long-term auditory memory under anesthesia; Development of functional connectivity MRI as a biomarker for pain; Optimization of physiologic noise correction for functional MRI. | Biosignals |
| Vorp, David A | Bioengineering | Mechanics of vascular disease, tissue-engineered blood vessels, stem cells (research summary) | Biomechanics TERM |
| Wagner, William R. | Chem/Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering | Cardiovascular engineering with projects that address medical device biocompatibility and design, tissue engineering, and targeted imaging | TERM MPE |
| Wang, James | Medicine, Bioengineering | Cell mechanobiology, contraction vs wound healing, functional tissue engineering | TERM MCSE |
| Waters, Jonathan | Medicine, Bioengineering | Transfusion management, fluid resuscitation and acid-base theory | |
| Weber, Douglas John | Bioengineering, adjunct | Neural engineering and prosthetics, functional electrical simulation, neural decoding (research summary) | Neural Engineering |
| Weinbaum, Justin Sol | Bioengineering | Interdisciplinary tissue engineering research that exploits the cell-instructive properties of matricellular proteins (research summary) | TERM MCSE |
| Wells, Alan | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biochemistry and mechanics of cell motility in tumors, wounds, and organogenesis | MCSE TERM |
| Wipf, Peter | CAS, Bioengineering | Synthetic Organic, Medicinal, heterocyclic and computational chemistry | MPE |
| Williamson, Ross | Medicine, Bioengineering | Understanding how auditory cortical circuits are shaped by the sensory environment and how this circuitry drives purposeful behavior. | |
| Woo, Savio L Y | Bioengineering | Effects of stress and motion on healing and repair of soft tissues; Theoretical and experimental studies of the nonlinear viscoelastic and mechanical properties of biological tissues; Kinematics of synovial joints, including the knee and shoulder, by developing a novel robotic universal force-moment sensor testing system to assess the roles of various soft tissues; Functional tissue engineering approaches involving the use of extracellular matrix (ECM) bioscaffolds, i.e., ECM-SIS to improve the healing of injured ligaments and tendons; Development of biodegradable metallic materials to assist the healing of ligaments and tendons as well as for implantable devices for orthopaedic applications. ( research summary) | Biomechanics MPE TERM MCSE |
| Worobey, Lynn | Medicine, Bioengineering | Enhancing independence and participation of individuals who use assistive technology as well as minimizing secondary injury. | Biomechanics |
| Wu, HaoDi | Medicine, Bioengineering | Computational biomedical image analysis with an emphasis on quantitative breast imaging for translational and clinical applications | Biosignals |
| Wu, Shandong | Radiology, Bioengineering |
The main research interests in the Wu Lab are to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the development, disease, and senescence of heart cells, and to develop potential therapeutic strategies to rectify pathogenesis and aging in the heart. | |
| Xia, Zongqi | Medicine, Bioengineering |
Neuroimmunology, with special emphasis on multiple sclerosis (MS) and related disorders. | Neural Engineering |
| Yates, Cecelia | Nursing, Bioengineering |
Investigating the chronic and fibrotic responses to injury, specifically, modeling the dynamic reciprocity that occurs between immune and stromal matrix remodeling cells that determines the healing outcome. Her translational research focuses on biomimetic peptide drug design and biomaterial delivery systems for the treatment of fibrosis-associated diseases. |
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| Yeh, Fang-Cheng Frank | Medicine, Bioengineering | Diffusion MRI, medical image analysis, brain connectome, digital pathology | Biosignals |
| Yeh, Joanne | Medicine, Bioengineering | 3-D structural elucidation of biomacromolecules and methodologies development to enhance structural-functional studies | Biosignal |
| Yun, Minhee | Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Biosensor development based 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional nanomaterials. Use of electrical signals to detect specific biomarkers in human blood and urine samples (research summary) | Neural Engineering |
| Zervantonakis, Ioannis (Yannis) | Bioengineering | Microfabricated and microfluidic technologies to study cancer progression, metastasis and response to therapies. Systems biology modeling of cell-cell interactions, cell signaling and localized drug release technologies in cancer. ( research summary) | MCSE Biomechanics TERM |
| Zongqi, Xia | Medicine, Bioengineering |
To gain insights into the underlying disease of multiple sclerosis and translate these findings into the clinical areas to improve individualized risk prediction, prevention, and management in multiple sclerosis and other related disorders. |
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| Zhan, Liang | Electrical/Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Computational neuroimaging, mathematic modeling, brain MRI, connectome, and brain diseases. | |
| Zhou, Leming | SHRS, Bioengineering | Mathematical modeling, algorithm development, sequence alignments, data mining, data integration, information security and privacy, and high performance computing | MCSE |