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 |
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| 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. | |
| Agarwal, Nitin | Research focuses on neurotrauma outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury and acute spinal cord injury, spine outcomes, socioeconomic research, and patient education. | ||
| 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 |
| Akcakaya, Murat |
Research focuses on the fields of machine learning, statistical signal processing and optimization |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Andreescu, Carmen | Research goal is to map the neural markers associated with clinical phenotypes and treatment response in late-life depression and anxiety. | ||
| 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 |
| Banihashemi, Layla | Research is focused on investigating childhood threat and deprivation and its relationships with stress-related neural circuits using 7 Tesla neuroimaging. | ||
| Bean, Allison | Research is focused on developing novel translational therapeutics for chronic soft tissue musculoskeletal injuries. | ||
| 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 |
| Becker, Jason | Research laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms regulating genetic and acquired forms of cardiomyopathy in an effort to discover novel methods to prevent heart failure and sudden death. | ||
| 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 |
| Bohland, Jason | Research focuses on a combination of computational modeling and experimental methods, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral experiments in humans. | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cambi, Franca | Research program straddles between clinical, genetic and molecular studies of human disorders. Important contributions of her work have been deciphering basic mechanisms of myelin development and disease using cell cultures and mouse models and linking these findings to human disease. | ||
| 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. | |
| Ceschin, Rafael | Research focuses on creating software and processing pipelines for neonatal developmental analysis, specifically for preterm infants and those with congenital heart defects (CHD). | ||
| 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 |
| Chang, Kun Che | Research is aimed to restore vision loss, especially caused by glaucoma and optic neuropathy. He investigates the regulatory mechanism of RGC differentiation and applies the findings to gene and stem cell therapies. | ||
| Chen, Xing | Research established that a neuroprosthesis is capable of restoring functionally useful artificial vision, providing proof-of-concept for a future clinical device in humans. | ||
| 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 |
| Clark, Amanda | Research focuses on liver metastasis. | ||
| 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 |
| da Silva, Susana Morgado Mendes Antunes | Research is focused on elucidating and understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying retina development, particularly the local patterning of retinal areas specialized for high acuity in vertebrate species, with a pronounced emphasis on the human fovea. | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DiLeo, Morgan | Research focuses on ocular drug delivery and ophthalmic biomaterials | ||
| Ding, Dan | SHRS, Bioengineering | Assistive device instrumentation and monitoring; wheelchair modeling, control, test, and evaluation; rehabilitation robotics; virtual reality | Biomechanics |
| Dong, Yan | Research is focused on cellular and neurocircuit mechanisms underlying motivated behaviors. His lab uses multidisciplinary approaches to determine synaptic adaptations and patterns of neuronal population activities that drive reward seeking and craving for addictive drugs. | ||
| 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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| El Gharbawie, Omar | Medicine, Bioengineering | Neuronal populations, optical imaging, neurophysiology, and anatomical methods | Neural Engineering |
| Emerick, Trent | Research includes medical device development for acute and chronic pain-related indications as well as devices to prevent opioid overdose. | ||
| 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 |
| Fang, Lei | Research applies fluid dynamics principles to understand phenomena in biology and human health, focusing on topics such as the influence of turbulence on microswimmers and active particles, biologically generated mixing, and the fluid mechanics of expiratory puffs. | ||
| 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 |
| Gao, Wei | Research focuses primarily on smart and connected health systems, on-device AI, and generative AI. | ||
| Gau, David | Research revolves around cancer bioengineering. | ||
| 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 |
| George, Sharon | Research is in the field of Cardio-Oncology where she studies the effects of cancer therapy on the heart. | ||
| Gerlach, Andrew | Research focuses on neurobiologically-inspired integration of multimodal neuroimaging to understand late-life depression and anxiety. | ||
| Ghatak, Subhadip | Research involves understanding exosome-mediated cell-cell crosstalk in tissue repair and regeneration. | ||
| 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. | |
| 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 |
| Green, Rebecca |
Research is focused on understanding the development of the face and the origin of facial birth defects. |
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| Gronenborn, Angela | Medicine, Bioengineering | Biomolecular structure and its correlation to function in transcription factor complexes, HIV-1 proteins, and signaling proteins. | MCSE |
| Herman, James | Research focuses on understanding how visual functions of the brain depend on subcortical-cortical interactions with a particular emphasis on the role of learning. | ||
| Hogan, MaCalus | Research involves regenerative bioengineering using stem cells and biomaterials, the biomechanical assessment of foot and ankle injuries and fixation techniques, as well as clinical outcomes research. | ||
| Huang, Zhimin | Research interest focuses on developing noninvasive molecular tools to control and monitor endogenous processes in intact cells and tissues, with an emphasis on the brain. | ||
| Hirschman, Alan D | Bioengineering | Medical product development and educating new product entrepreneurs (research summary) | MPE |
| 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 |
| Hussey, George | Research focuses on the discovery, development, and clinical translation of extracellular matrix (ECM)-based and other natural biopolymer materials for functional tissue reconstruction. | ||
| Ishihara, Keisuke | Research is primarily centered on the intersection of physical and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on organoids and developmental processes. | ||
| Kammula, Udai | Focused laboratory and clinical trial effort in developing the next generation of bioengineered tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies for metastatic uveal melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and other poorly responsive solid cancers.. | ||
| Ibrahim, Tamer Selim | Bioengineering | Antenna design for MRI & biological implantable devices; computational electromagnetics (research summary) | Neural Engineering Biosignals MPE |
| 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 |
| 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) | |
| Kaufman, Brett | Research interest is to understand the contribution of mtDNA metabolism to disease progression. | ||
| 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 |
| Kim-Campbell, Nahmah | Research is focused on the role of hemolysis and cell-free hemoglobin (PHb) in end organ dysfunction, particularly the kidney, related to extracorporeal therapies such as cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. | ||
| Kliment, Corrine | Research program is to determine how mitochondria orchestrate lung epithelial repair, cellular senescence in and immune cell function in diseases of accelerated lung aging to identify new therapeutic approaches to improve lung repair and regeneration. | ||
| Kohanbash, Gary | Research is tightly linked to bioengineering. The first topic is the development of peptide and cellular therapies. Peptide vaccines assess the peptide structures to ensure strong binding to major histocompatibility and t-cell receptor molecules. | ||
| Kolarcik, Christi | Research incorporates molecular, cellular, and systems-based analyses to improve function following injury or disease, particularly in the context of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). | ||
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Lee, Juhun | Research focuses on developing novel imaging biomarkers from mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis exams for breast cancer care. |
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| Liang, Nathan | Research interests related to BioE are in the dynamic behavior of aortas, especially flow and wall dynamics in the setting of aortic aneurysm and dissection, and the use of machine learning methods for analysis and prediction of these conditions. |
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| 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 |
| Lord, Nathan | Research involves learning the mechanistic principles that enable embryos to avoid and correct errors in development. | ||
| Luna, Beatriz | Research includes characterizing neurocognitive development through adolescence probing cognitive control, reward, and reinforcement learning using multimodal neuroimaging (fMRI, DTI, rsfMRI, MRSI, and PET). The lab’s primary focus is on normative development. Dr. Luna’s lab also studies risk for substance use and psychosis. | ||
| 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 |
| Maiti, Spandan | Bioengineering | Computational mechanics and materials science, multiscale and multiphysics techniques applied to physical and biological systems. (research summary) | Biomechanics |
| 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 |
| Menegazzi, James | Medicine, Bioengineering | Resuscitation from cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation, ventilation adjuncts, emergency medicine | MPE |
| 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 |
| Musahl, Volker | Medicine, Bioengineering | Sports medicine; comprehensive care of injuries to the knee, shoulder, elbow, hip, and ankle | Biomechanics |
| 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. | |
| Petersen, Bailey | Research includes the use of wearable accelerometers and machine learning to determine the relationship of physical activity to cognitive recovery and biomarkers of neuroplasticity in children with traumatic brain injury. | ||
| 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 |
| Phillips, Mary | Research focuses on using multimodal neuroimaging techniques to elucidate functional and structural abnormalities in emotion processing, reward processing and emotional regulation circuitries that are associated with symptom dimensions of mood and anxiety disorders. | ||
| 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 |
| Pirondini, Elvira | Research interests include the study of upper limb motor control strategies in humans and animal models, and neuroimaging tools for the design of innovative clinical approaches for rehabilitation in neural disorders. | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Salavatian, Siamak | Research work is to identify the neural pathways in the autonomic nervous system that contributes to the initiation and progression of cardiac diseases (myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, ventricular and atrial arrhythmias) and develop novel neuromodulation therapies to reverse the adverse neural remodeling in the setting of fatal cardiac arrhythmias. | ||
| Schaeffer, David | Research research program is to understand how neural networks that are involved in complex behaviors (e.g., those involved with social communication) conform across mammalian species, with the goal of better informing hypotheses about how these networks go awry in human neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases. | ||
| 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 | |
| Schwartz, Andrew | Research program centers on the relationship between cerebral cortical activity and arm movement. | ||
| 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 |
| Sfeir, Charles | Medicine, Bioengineering | Role of extracellular matrix in tissue engineering and biomineralization; The use of bioceramic nanoparticles in non-viral DNA gene delivery | |
| Shea, Susan | Research examines how traumatic injury induces coagulopathy and platelet dysfunction. | ||
| 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 |
| Shigemura, Norihisa | Research is focused on lung transplant, ex vivo lung perfusion, and transplant organ rejection. | ||
| Shoemaker, Jason | Research includes using computational modeling to understand the mechanisms promoting immunopathology during severe respiratory infections. | ||
| Shushruth, Shushruth | Research studies the neural basis of higher order cognitive functions in the primate brain. | ||
| 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 |
| Silva, Afonso | Research focuses on spatial resolution of ultra-high field MRI to visualize the neuroanatomy of the marmoset brain with cytoarchitectonic detail. | ||
| Singhala, Mohit | Research interest is in using robotic setups to better understand human task performance, particularly the involvement of haptic perception and using the basic science understanding of human perception to create better robotic control systems. | ||
| Snyderman, Carl | Research focuses on endoscopic approaches to the skull base; oncologic outcomes of sinonasal malignancy; quality of life; decision-making in medicine; surgical simulation; global education; medical device development. | ||
| 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 |
| Stujenske, Joseph | Research focuses on understanding the cognitive circuits that regulate emotional states. | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Uttam, Shikhar | Research interest includes studying multiscale biology of inflamed and tumor microenvironments by integrating physics, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and machine learning approaches. | ||
| 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 |
| Velankar, Sachin | Research is focused in the area of soft materials including polymers, colloids, capillary phenomena. Complex material properties (non-linear elasticity, inelastic deformations, and complex rheology) are common themes in his research. | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wittenberg, George | Research interests presently lie in using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional imaging to understand motor cortical reorganization following stroke and in designing and testing new methods for neurorehabilitation. | ||
| 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, Yijen | Research focuses on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) physics, methodology, and translational applications. | ||
| 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 |
| Yang, Shaolin | Research is focused on neuroimaging using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI). He develops new MRS and MRI techniques and conducts research on the application of these techniques to study neuropsychiatric disorders and the development of treatment strategies. | ||
| Yeh, Fang-Cheng Frank | Medicine, Bioengineering | Diffusion MRI, medical image analysis, brain connectome, digital pathology | Biosignals |
| 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 |
| Zhan, Liang | Electrical/Computer Engineering, Bioengineering | Computational neuroimaging, mathematic modeling, brain MRI, connectome, and brain diseases. |