Faculty and Staff Directory

Associate Professor, 

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

Associate Professor, 

cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology

Associate Professor, 

drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis

Associate Professor, 

Diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cellmediated growth and remodeling processes on tissue and organ mechanics

Assistant Professor, 

Brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy

Associate Professor, 

3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 

Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Affairs, 

Innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to delivery life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods

Associate Professor, 

Entrepreneurship education microenvironments and their impact on the engagement of diverse populations, the influence of I-Corps on university ecosystems, and transforming BME education through instructional design

Assistant Professor, 

Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology

Associate Professor, 

Systems and synthetic biology of the Brain-Immune-Gut super-system; Interactions among hosts and microbes; Deep learning approaches to interpreting biological data and designing biomedical solutions

University Distinguished Professor, 

Physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system. Most recent interests include the role of metabolic plasticity in these processes and the co-evolution of the tumor and the adaptive immune system. Other areas include spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton, the mechanics of collective cell motility, and the analysis of genetic circuits involved in cell fate decisions.

Assistant Professor, 

Oral vaccine, host and oral microbiome interactions, microbiome engineering, and protein engineering-based cancer immunotherapy

Assistant Professor, 

Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development

Professor, 

Biological flows, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, blood flow simulation, cerebrospinal fluid simulation, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, medical image processing, magnetic resonance imaging

Assistant Professor, 

Computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression

Professor and Chair, 

Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Assistant Professor, 

Using computational methods including Monte Carlo methods, molecular dynamics simulations, and molecular docking calculations to obtain a fundamental understanding of molecular interactions that occur at biological interfaces, such as the pulmonary surfactant system in the lungs

Professor and Associate Chair For Research, 

Biomedical optics and non-invasive imaging, rare cell detection and tracking in the body, ultrafast time-domain diffuse optical imaging, image reconstruction and biomedical signal processing

Assistant Professor, 

Pulmonary physiology, biofluids and transport phenomenon, computational biomechanics, magnetic resonance imaging, multi-scale modeling

Assistant Professor, 

We study cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions in the airway to understand the fundamental mechanisms that regulate airway caliber and why they fail in diseases like asthma.

Assistant Professor, 

Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development

Professor, 

Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly

Associate Dean for Space and Special Initiatives, 

Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals

Associate Professor, 

Single-cell proteomics, Ribosome-mediated translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass-spectrometry

University Distinguished Professor, 

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine

Assistant Professor, 

Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function