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Shelly Peyton
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Alessandra Balduini
Research Associate Professor
regulation, environment and pathology of megakarocytes to platelets
Lauren Black III
Associate Professor
cardiovascular tissue engineering, dynamic tissue mechanics and visualization, computational modeling, myocardial infarction, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, cardiogenesis
Barbara Brodsky
Research Professor
biophysics, collagen, protein structure
Ying Chen
Research Assistant Professor
tissue engineering, regenerative tissue applications
Yu-Ting Dingle
Lecturer
Sergio Fantini
Professor
Biomedical optics, diffuse optical imaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, quantitative tissue oximetry.
Vincent Fitzpatrick
Research Assistant Professor
Corey Fucetola
Research Assistant Professor
Juan Gnecco
Assistant Professor
reproductive biology and tissue engineering to understand the immune-endocrine mechanisms driving both reproductive physiology and disease pathogenesis.
Giulia Guidetti
Research Assistant Professor
natural photonics, structural colors, bio-inspired photonics, biomaterials
Nisha Iyer
Assistant Professor
stem cells, neural tissue engineering, organoids, disease modeling, spinal cord injury, biomanufacturing
David Kaplan
Distinguished Professor, Stern Family Professor of Engineering
biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture
Janet Krevolin
Professor of the Practice
medical device design and development
Angela Lai
Assistant Teaching Professor
Medical Device Design, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, Thrombosis, Blood-material Interactions
Chunmei Li
Research Assistant Professor
biomaterials for hard tissue regeneration, biophysical control of macrophage polarization
Marco Lo Presti
Research Assistant Professor
Ying Luo
Research Associate Professor
Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery
Srivalleesha Mallidi
Assistant Professor
Ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, multi-modality imaging, image-guided surgery and therapeutics, nano drug delivery systems
Fiorenzo Omenetto
Frank C. Doble Professor
ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, biopolymer multifunctional materials, material science, photonic crystals, photonic crystal fibers
Madeleine Oudin
Associate Professor
cancer biology, tumor microenvironment, mechanisms of metastasis and drug resistance
Jugal Sahoo
Research Assistant Professor
Silk chemistry and biomedical materials design, Biopolymers, Hydrogels
Angelo Sassaroli
Research Assistant Professor
near-infrared spectroscopy, diffuse optical tomography
Brian Timko
Associate Professor
nanoelectronics, biosensing, biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery
Qiaobing Xu
Professor
biomaterials, drug delivery, micro/nanofabrication, tissue engineering
Zhongfeng Ye
Research Assistant Professor
Zheng Zhang
Professor of the Practice
medical devices, new product development, biomaterials, polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry
Secondary Appointments
Bree Aldridge
Professor
Tuberculosis remains a threat to global health, killing ~2 million people every year. The causative agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is thought to infect one-third of the world's population, sickening ~10 million people a year. Despite efforts to simplify treatment strategies, tuberculosis still requires months of multi-drug therapy to cure. Our research focuses on designing optimized therapies for TB using cell biology and engineering approaches. Our lab is a multidisciplinary research team, integrating quantitative measurement with computational modeling and analysis to create intuitive descriptions of complex cell biology. We focus our studies on (1) characterizing single-cell determinants of mycobacterial drug tolerance, (2) understanding how growth heterogeneity is controlled, and (3) engineering combination therapy.
Luis Dorfmann
Professor
Mathematical models of material behavior; Nonlinear magneto- and electromechanical interactions; Biomechanics of soft materials; Rubber elasticity and inelasticity
Jonathan Garlick
Professor
Pedram Hamrah
Professor
Dendritic cells found in the eye with special emphasis on the function of these cells in corneal transplantation, neurotrophic keratitis, and herpetic keratitis Clinical trials that use confocal microscopy in various types of infectious keratitis and dry eye disease
Carl Kirker-Head
Professor, Marilyn M. Simpson Chair in Equine Medicine
Orthopedics: Bone and cartilage growth and remodeling, repair in response to injury, and grafting. Skeletal tissue engineering. Bone and soft tissue biomechanics. Bone inductive and mitotic proteins. Ligament and tendon physiology and response to injury. Orthopedic device development. Animal models of orthopedic disease. Equine podiatry. Joint disease and interventions. Cardiovascular: Percutaneous treatment of cardiac disease. Animal models of cardiac disease. Interventional cardiology.
Krishna Kumar
Robinson Professor of Chemistry
Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology The research interests of the Kumar laboratory are centered on the (1) use of chemistry to design molecules to interrogate and illuminate fundamental mechanisms in biology, or be used as therapeutics; and (2) use of biology to "evolve" and "select" molecules that can perform chemistry in non-biological and medicinal settings. These are some questions we are trying to answer: (i) Is it possible to design and mimic natural proteins and other biological macromolecules by use of building blocks that nature does not use – and whether such constructs can be endowed with properties that are not found in biology?; (ii) How did the first enzymes arise in the imagined Darwin's pond – is there a way to recreate this scenario and in the process develop a fundamentally new method to create enzymes?; (iii) Biology uses phase separation, that is, clustering of different compounds in confined locations – a process that is key in orchestrating the daily activities of a cell – can we find methods that can predictably dictate where molecules are located in a given environment and thereby direct the phenotype that is generated?; (iv) Can we rationally design small molecules and peptides that can function against antibiotic resistant bacteria that are threatening the most basic tenet of modern medicine?
Michael Levin
Vannevar Bush Professor
Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems
Eric Miller
Professor
Signal and image processing, tomographic image formation and object characterization, inverse problems, regularization, statistical signal and imaging processing, and computational physical modeling. Applications explored include medical imaging and image analysis, environmental monitoring and remediation, landmine and unexploded ordnance remediation, and automatic target detection and classification.
Gili Naveh
Associate Professor
Structure and function of the periodontal ligament Bone biology Tooth movement Extracellular matrix Biomechanics 3D Imaging MicroCT Raman
Thomas Schnelldorfer
Professor
Igor Sokolov
Professor
Engineering for Health -> Physics of cancer and aging -> Mechanics of biomaterials at the nanoscale, Synthesis and study of functionals nanomaterials for biomedical imaging and drug delivery, Advanced imaging for medical diagnostics, Novel processes and materials for dentistry: nano-polishing and self-healing materials
Sameer Sonkusale
Professor
Bioelectronics, Biomedical microdevices, Wearables, Ingestibles, Biomedical circuits and systems, micro and nano fabrication, lab-on-chip microsystems, global health and precision medicine, CMOS image sensors for scientific imaging, analog to information converters, analog computing, brain inspired machine learning, active metamaterial devices, circuits, and systems, terahertz devices and circuits
Barry Trimmer
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Science
Control of locomotion and the neural processes that organize sensory and motor information
James Van Deventer
Bright Futures Assistant Professor
Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology, Protein Engineering, Antibody Engineering, Drug Discovery, Genetic Code Expansion, Noncanonical Amino Acids, Tumor Microenvironment.
Pamela Yelick
Professor
Research in my laboratory focuses on mineralized tissue development, homeostasis, disease and regeneration. Our research models include the zebrafish, Danio rerio, mammalian models including pig, mouse and rat, human healthy and diseased tissues, and three dimensions (3D) in vitro and in vivo tissue engineering models for human cartilage, bone and tooth tissue engineering.
Part-time Lecturers
Anthony Barry
Part-time Lecturer
Drug Delivery and Controlled Release Technologies Pharmaceutical Development Pharmaceutical Formulations Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Bioprocessing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies
Amanda Baryshyan
Part-time Lecturer
Monir Ejemel
Part-time Lecturer
Xiao Kuang
Part-time Lecturer
Niall Lennon
Part-time Lecturer
molecular biology, cell biology, nano biotechnology, genomics
Bernardo Perez-Ramirez
Part-time Lecturer
Drug product development for therapeutic proteins. Application of biophysical and thermodynamic approaches to formulation development. Physical and chemical stability of proteins, ligand binding and linkage. Drug-device integration.
Affiliate Faculty
Gianluca Farinola
Adjunct Professor
Shelley Fried
Adjunct Associate Professor
Irene Georgakoudi
Adjunct Professor
label-free high resolution tissue imaging, non-linear microscopy, metabolic imaging, matrix characterization, in vivo flow cytometry, cancer detection, osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases
Chiara Ghezzi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dense collagen based tubular tissue models for airway tissue engineering
Bastien Guerin
Adjunct Assistant Professor
magnetic resonance imaging, electromagnetic modeling, RF and gradient coil design
James Harden
Adjunct Associate Professor
biomolecular assemblies, biomaterials, computational biophysics, cell mechanics, complex fluids
Samuel Lin
Adjunct Associate Professor
Lorenz Meinel
Adjunct Professor
Drug delivery interfaces
Nicolas Rouleau
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Adjunct Professor
transport phenomena, tissue engineering and bioreactors
Emeriti
Mark Cronin-Golomb
Professor Emeritus
optical instrumentation, atomic force microscopy, nonlinear optics, biomedical optics, optical tweezers, biocompatible optical materials
Van Vo
Associate Professor Emeritus