Biomedical Engineering Faculty

Training Track: Biomedical & Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Molecular Imaging; optical imaging; instrument development; image-guided surgery; cancer treatment, molecular probes; spectroscopy, multimodal nuclear and magnetic imaging; stimulated thermal imaging, nanomedicine

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Immunotherapy and radiotherapy in cancer prevention and treatment; premature aging and carcinogenesis; DNA damage response signaling in heart development

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Development of hybrid positron emission tomography (PET) (e.g. PET-CT and PET-MR) tools to enable precision imaging for the care and study of oncology, neurology, and cardiology patients.

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: NMR spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy in conjunction with the application of stable isotope tracers to study metabolic function

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Developing non- and minimally invasive optical tools to monitor deep tissues in health and disease, as well as throughout therapy

Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Cancer, cell polarity, developmental biology, morphogenesis, stem/progenitor cells, tissue engineering and regeneration

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Genomic, genetic, and molecular approaches to autism spectrum disorders

Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Nerve regeneration; long nerve gap repair; nerve-machine interface

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Nanomedicine and image-guided drug delivery for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in oncology

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes; repertoire characteristics as biomarkers of immune status and disease; host-pathogen interactions

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Regulation of cell morphogenesis during metastasis; roles of mechanics in cell survival and drug resistance

Research Interests: Autonomous Microscopy, Molecular Multiplexing, Optical Probe Development, and Content Rich Histopathology

Training Track: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine

Research Interests: Ultrasound contrast agent, perfluorocarbon emulsions, development of new ultrasound-based strategies for early detection and treatment of diseases

Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics, and Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Understand the basic biomechanical and neurophysiological properties of the lower limb after neurological lesions. Explore the neuro-mechanical underpinnings of lower limb impairments after stroke, with the goal of informing future clinical interventions

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: The long-term goal of our lab’s research is to develop and implement imaging technologies that provide unprecedented insight into cancer biology.

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Prevention and early detection of neurological injury associated with surgery

Training Tracks: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine; Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Activatable optical/MRI imaging probes to study tumor metabolism and theranostic nanomedicine for cancer-targeted drug therapy

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Evaluate the use of newly designed biodegradable stints to treat pulmonary artery stenosis

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Computational biology; analysis of protein sequences and structures

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Statistical methods, clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; ultra-high field MRI; hardware; RF coils; B0 shimming; sequence development; data analysis

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Single-cell regulatory genomics, cell fate engineering, function of non-coding elements and genetic variants.

Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Heart-lung interaction; lung morphometry; structure-function correlation of lung growth

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Assessment of ventriculographie-arterial coupling in congenital and acquired heart disease. Cardiac MRI for improved vascular imaging

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Quantitative single-molecule imaging of receptor organization and signaling; linking molecular and cellular behavior across multiple scales; computational image analysis and data multiplexing

Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Medical Physics; Computational Biology

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging, radiotherapy treatment planning, and adaptive radiotherapy etc.

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Molecular recognition in protein folding, chaperone structural biology and neurodegeneration

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: DNA, RNA, and bisulfite sequence alignment, graph alignment to population of genomes and genotyping, personalized medicine with a focus on cancer diagnosis

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Comparative genomics, epigenetics, and alternative splicing analyses relevant to brain evolution and cognitive disorders

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Generation and application of hyperpolarized¹³C-labeled compounds and⁸⁹Y-complexes for MRI/Radiopharmaceutical applications

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Computational genomics. Using molecular, genetic, genomic, and computational approaches to understanding signal-regulated gene expression. Integrating data from different genomic platforms using computational approaches

Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Cell fate, wound healing, muscle fibrosis, heterotopic ossification, injury response

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Computational cancer immunology, tumor-immune interaction and high-throughput profiling of immune receptor repertoire

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Neuroimaging, MRI, Dynamic Brain Connectivity, Dopamine, Astrocytes, Reward and Learning

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Probe engineering and targeted drug delivery to islet cells for treating diabetes; Islet biology with an emphasis on functional analysis on zinc signaling and zinc transporters in islet endocrine cells.

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Structural and biochemical characterization of membrane proteins in cholesterol biosynthesis, metabolism and signaling

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Theoretical and computational approaches to predict protein folding and aggregation; evolutionary dynamics

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Adaptive radiation therapy; treatment-plan optimization; radiation-dose calculations

Training Tracks: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine; Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Bioresponsive nanomaterials for in vivo detection and therapy; targeted and activatable ultrasound (US) agents for the detection of inflammation and cancer

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Development and clinical translation of novel MR imaging techniques for detection and assessment of therapy response; non-contrast perfusion using arterial spin labeled (ASL) MRI; fat/water separated MRI; Whole-body MRI; MR Physics.

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Track

Research Interests: Parturition (the process of labor); cervical ripening; male and female reproductive biology

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Track

Research Interests: Deep Learning applications in neuroimaging including brain tumor molecular marker prediction, Traumatic Brain Injury, MEG, MRI, fMRI

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: ¹³C MRS methods for measuring cardiac intermediary-metabolism flux and function analysis/neurotransmitter metabolism of human brain

Training Tracks: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine; Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Tumor pathophysiology and MR assessment of prognostic biomarkers/hypoxia and pH

Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Computational Biology

Research Interests: Developing state-of-the-art machine-learning approaches to extract radiological imaging and imaging-genomic biomarkers for individualized prognostics in neuroscience and oncological applications

Training Track: Medical Physics

Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Methods development for cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and next-generation sequencing; Structural studies of macromolecules with X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM single particle reconstruction; Higher-order structure of eukaryotic chromatin.

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Application of structural (X-ray, CT, and MR) and functional (SPECT and PET) imaging methods to quantify changes in bone mass and metabolism induced by metabolic bone diseases; in vivo assessment of beta-cell mass and function by novel probes; novel PET and SPECT probe development for bone cells

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Track

Research Interests: Development of noninvasive molecular imaging tools to elucidate in vivo metabolism

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Development of novel MRI techniques for improved diagnosis of abdominal/pelvic diseases and noninvasive in vivo assessment of physiology and response to therapy in tumors

Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Heart, lung, and perfusion preservation, magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Computational Biology

Research Interests: Spatial organization of tumors by combining machine identified phenotypes and existing pathology scoring within the framework established by cancer biology

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Molecular evolution, using protein sequence analysis to predict mutational effects on function, engineering protein regulation, mapping and modeling the relationship between enzyme activity and cellular growth rate, co-evolution in metabolic pathways.

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Integrating structure, kinetics, and computation to understand the molecular determinants and regulatory mechanisms of microtubule dynamics

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Cellular information processing; molecular mechanisms of G protein-mediated signaling: amplification, selectivity, response kinetics and signal integration

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Role of cycloxygenase-2 in radiation and chemo-resistance, role of small molecule inhibitors as radio-sensitizers

Research Interests: Polymer and materials chemistry, drug and gene delivery, RNAi, biomedical imaging, detection and treatment of cancer

Training Track: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine

Research Interests: Clinical application of nanoprobes with unique nanoscale behavior

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Development of PET, SPECT, and MRI imaging probes to assess biological abnormalities and evaluation of disease treatment

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Antibiotic resistance and sensitivity; single molecule biophysics; synthetic biology

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Endogenous and exogenous MRI contrast agents and mechanisms in vivo, CEST and PARACEST imaging, hyperpolarization

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Immunogenomics, Tumor genomics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Machine learning

Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Medical Physics

Research Interests: Biomedical optics, In Vivo cell tracking, Optical tomography-guided radiation therapy and Ultra-high dose rate irradiation

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Machine learning, Immunogenomics, and Tumor genomics

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Application of Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques (fMRI, DTI, MRS, etc). Correction of magnetic susceptibility artifacts on brain MRI caused by orthodontic appliances. MR Quality Assurance and Safety. MRI Assessment of Body Iron. Application of AI in medical imaging

Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Computational Biology

Research Interests: My methodology research is focused on model development for high-dimensional data such as gene expression, epigenomics, copy number variation, proteomics, genome-wide RNAi functional screening data and brain image data.

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Biostatistics, bioinformatics, statistical genomics, clinical trial design, and biomarker studies

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, gene mapping for complex traits

Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging

Research Interests: Detect early changes in the mitochondrial metabolism, in situ, as a marker for asymptomatic, subclinical, doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity

Training Tracks: Medical Physics; Computational Biology

Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications

Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience

Research Interests: 3D/4D CT/CBCT reconstruction and analysis, 4D MRI reconstruction, artificial intelligence and automation in radiation therapy, biomechanical modeling and finite element analysis, deformable registration and its application in image-guided radiation therapy, radiotherapy dose calculation and plan optimization

Training Track: Computational Biology

Research Interests: Computational Biology; Systems biology and functional Genomics; Machine learning and statistics for biomedical science; Genomic sequence-based regulation

Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, optical device design, nanomaterials, cancer biology and treatment

Research Interests: Drug Resistance Mechanism, Drug Delivery Systems, Nanoparticles, Immunotherapy, Tissue Engineering

Research Interests: Applying new technologies to improve clinical operations, and working in partnership with physicians to develop novel techniques.

Research Interests: Eukaryotic chromatin organization, mutational rates and spectra, biological signals and noise

Research Interests: Urology; laparoscopy, telesurgical mentoring

Research Interests: Active machine learning driven cancer drug discovery

Research Interests: Sub concussive head impact exposure in contact sports, traumatic brain injury, magnetoencephalography

Research Interests: MR medical physics, adaptive radiotherapy, imaging, deep learning, MRI, radiology, NMR, pattern recognition, neuroradiology, AI, artificial intelligence, oncology

Research Interests: Biomaterials; circulatory assist devices

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Research Interests: Deep learning application in magnetic resonance imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE- MRI)

Research Interests: Tissue-Response modeling in radiation therapy

Research Interests: General psychiatry, aging and geriatric issues, new applications of lead placement in ECT and novel treatments of major depressive disorder including magnetic seizure therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and vagus nerve stimulation

Research Interests: Circulatory assist devices, cardiac metabolism

Research Interests: Statistics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, genome-wide association studies

Research Interests: Cervical cancer, developmental therapeutics, ovarian cancer, early detection of ovarian cancer

Research Interests: Molecular-imaging instrumentation, linear and nonlinear diffraction tomography, tensor tomography, applied inverse problems

Research Interests:Fast and motion-robust MRI acquisition and reconstruction, High-resolution MRI for in vivo imaging intracortical structure and deep nuclei, Novel MRI contrast and quantification of tissue properties

Research Interests: Molecular Imaging, lung cancer, kidney cancer, tumor microenvironment

Research Interests: Novel molecular-based contrast agents, with emphasis on ultrasound solutions, which can be used to detect and/or treat cancer, including image guided tumor ablation, ultrasound directed drug or gene delivery, or cell-based therapy

Research Interests: fMRI; DICOMs

Research Interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; stereotactic radiation therapy

Research Interests: In vivo MRS for studies of energy and phospholipids metabolism in brain and skeletal muscle

Research Interests: Neural cardiovascular control during exercise; reflex dysfunction in heart failure; reflex dysfunction in hypertension

Research Interests: Clinical applications of new spectral CT technologies

Research Interests: Deciphering molecular characteristics of tumors using Radiogenomics; Identifying quantitative imaging parameters reflective of molecular alterations in solid tumors as noninvasive prognostic and predictive tools; Characterizing biomarkers of bone metastasis

Research Interests: Application of biomedical engineering to cancer research, developing novel cancer diagnostics and therapeutics to improve cancer treatment, genitourinary cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, radiation oncology, translational research, cancer immunotherapy, cancer nanotherapeutics, cancer biomarkers, radioisotopes, nanoparticles, prostate cancer, chemoradiotherapy

Research Interests: Biomaterial grafts, coatings and scaffolds; finite element analysis; polymer synthesis; bioresorbable polymer characterization

Research Interests: Hip dysplasia, femoroacetabular impingement, hip motion, MRI, advanced imaging

Research Interests: High-performance computing; infrastructure for radiation therapy; radiobiological effects

Research Interests: PET, SPECT, Deep Learning

Research Interests: Adrenal disorders, relationship between obesity and metabolic health and hyposialylation of IgG in adolescent patients

Research Interests: Applied mathematics and MRI methods for translational research in liver imaging with special focus on evaluation of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

Research Interests: Quantitative MRI acquisition and analysis, MRI safety