Faculty
The Department of Biomedical Engineering at UT Southwestern is home to a diverse group of innovative faculty members committed to advancing research, education, and clinical translation. Our faculty members bring expertise across a wide range of disciplines – including imaging, drug delivery, biomaterials, computational modeling, and regenerative medicine – fostering a collaborative environment that drives discovery and impacts human health. Explore the profiles below to learn more about their groundbreaking work and contributions to the field.
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
Research Interests: Molecular imaging, nanotechnology, devices, and therapeutic interventions
W. Matthew Petroll, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice Chair for Education
Research Interests: Cell motility and mechanics, corneal repair and regeneration, in vivo confocal imaging
Walter Akers, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Research Director
Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, systems development, image-guided surgery for improved cancer treatment, preclinical models of human disease
Kareem Azab, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, biomaterials, implantable biodegradable systems, cancer biology, tumor microenvironment, immunotherapy, cancer biomarkers, drug delivery systems, nanotechnology, boron neutron capture therapy
Zijian Deng, Ph.D.
Instructor
Research Interests: Instrumentation, optical imaging and tomography, computational imaging, time-resolved single-photon detection, and image-guided therapy
Pere Dosta Pons, Ph.D.
Instructor
Research Interests: Biomaterials, nanotechnology, non-viral drug delivery, and cancer immunotherapy
Christopher Egbulefu, M.D.
Instructor
Research Interests: Sub-cellular characterization of molecular events in cancer models, identification, designing, and validation of targeted fluorescence probes and novel therapeutic strategies (Cerenkov therapy, immunotherapy, small molecular inhibitor, and combination therapy) for cancer management
Lukas Farbiak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Genetic engineering and genome editors, nucleic acid-based therapeutics; nanomedicine
Anchal Ghai, Ph.D.
Instructor
Research Interests:Oncology, multiple myeloma, nuclear imaging probes, radiochemistry, nuclear theranostics
Isaac Pence, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Instrumentation, machine learning, Raman spectroscopy, translational biophotonics
Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Materials chemistry and engineering, genomic medicines and novel non-viral drug delivery systems
Shaw-Wei David Tsen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Laser-stimulated pathogen inactivation, drug delivery, cancer prevention, aging research
Xiao Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Instrumentation focusing on optical, ultrasonic, and hybrid for sensing structural and molecular processes through soft biological tissue, portable devices
Raiyan Zaman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Interventional devices for translational research in coronary artery disease, real-time tracking and modeling of the dynamic pathobiological information on coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis biology for disease prevention
Sheeba Anteraper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Advanced Imaging Research Center | Biomedical Engineering | Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
David Busch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology & Pain Management | Biomedical Engineering | Neurology
Wen-Hong Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholar in Medical Research | Biological Chemistry | Biomedical Engineering
Jae Mo Park, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Advanced Imaging Research Center | Biomedical Engineering Radiology
Martin Pomper, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor & Effie and Wofford Cain Distinguished Chair in Diagnostic Imaging
Radiology | Advanced Imaging Research Center | Biomedical Engineering
Richard Samade, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery & Plastic Surgery | Biomedical Engineering
Gaurav Sharma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery | Advanced Imaging Research Center | Biomedical Engineering
Cecile Verbaarschot, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery | Biomedical Engineering | Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
Nian Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Advanced Imaging Research Center | Biomedical Engineering | Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
Charles Whitten, M.D.
Margaret Milam McDermott Distinguished Chair in Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Biomedical Engineering