Biomedical Engineering Faculty
Program Chair
Faculty
Associate Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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.
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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
Professor
Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Cancer, cell polarity, developmental biology, morphogenesis, stem/progenitor cells, tissue engineering and regeneration
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Genomic, genetic, and molecular approaches to autism spectrum disorders
Professor
Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Nerve regeneration; long nerve gap repair; nerve-machine interface
Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Development of MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound for preclinical and clinical imaging
Associate Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Molecular imaging techniques and nanomedicine-technology development to better understand and characterize liver disease
Associate Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes; repertoire characteristics as biomarkers of immune status and disease; host-pathogen interactions
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Regulation of cell morphogenesis during metastasis; roles of mechanics in cell survival and drug resistance
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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.
Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Prevention and early detection of neurological injury associated with surgery
Professor
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
Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Evaluate the use of newly designed biodegradable stints to treat pulmonary artery stenosis
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Computational biology; analysis of protein sequences and structures
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Statistical methods, clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; ultra-high field MRI; hardware; RF coils; B0 shimming; sequence development; data analysis
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Single-cell regulatory genomics, cell fate engineering, function of non-coding elements and genetic variants.
Professor
Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Heart-lung interaction; lung morphometry; structure-function correlation of lung growth
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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
Professor
Training Tracks: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging; Medical Physics; Computational Biology
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging, radiotherapy treatment planning, and adaptive radiotherapy etc.
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Molecular recognition in protein folding, chaperone structural biology and neurodegeneration
Assistant Professor
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
Associate Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Comparative genomics, epigenetics, and alternative splicing analyses relevant to brain evolution and cognitive disorders
Associate Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Generation and application of hyperpolarized13C-labeled compounds and89Y-complexes for MRI/Radiopharmaceutical applications
Professor
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
Associate Professor
Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Cell fate, wound healing, muscle fibrosis, heterotopic ossification, injury response
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Computational cancer immunology, tumor-immune interaction and high-throughput profiling of immune receptor repertoire
Associate Professor
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.
Associate Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Structural and biochemical characterization of membrane proteins in cholesterol biosynthesis, metabolism and signaling
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational approaches to predict protein folding and aggregation; evolutionary dynamics
Associate Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Adaptive radiation therapy; treatment-plan optimization; radiation-dose calculations
Assistant Professor
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
Associate Professor
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.
Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Track
Research Interests: Parturition (the process of labor); cervical ripening; male and female reproductive biology
Professor
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
Professor
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
Professor
Training Tracks: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine; Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Tumor pathophysiology and MR assessment of prognostic biomarkers/hypoxia and pH
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Medical Physics
Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications
Professor
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.
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging Track
Research Interests: Development of noninvasive molecular imaging tools to elucidate in vivo metabolism
Professor
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
Associate Professor
Training Track: Biomaterials, Mechanics and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Heart, lung, and perfusion preservation, magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
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.
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Integrating structure, kinetics, and computation to understand the molecular determinants and regulatory mechanisms of microtubule dynamics
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Cellular information processing; molecular mechanisms of G protein-mediated signaling: amplification, selectivity, response kinetics and signal integration
Associate Professor
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
Professor
Training Tracks: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine; Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Responsive MRI contrast agents, targeted MR and PET agents, carbon-13 tracers of metabolism, high-field magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vivo
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Polymer and materials chemistry, drug and gene delivery, RNAi, biomedical imaging, detection and treatment of cancer
Professor
Training Track: Molecular and Translational Nanomedicine
Research Interests: Clinical application of nanoprobes with unique nanoscale behavior
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Antibiotic resistance and sensitivity; single molecule biophysics; synthetic biology
Associate Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Endogenous and exogenous MRI contrast agents and mechanisms in vivo, CEST and PARACEST imaging, hyperpolarization
Associate Professor
Training Track: Biomedical and Molecular Imaging
Research Interests: Immunogenomics, Tumor genomics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Machine learning
Associate Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Machine learning, Immunogenomics, and Tumor genomics
Professor
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
Professor
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.
Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Biostatistics, bioinformatics, statistical genomics, clinical trial design, and biomarker studies
Associate Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, gene mapping for complex traits
Assistant Professor
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
Associate Professor
Training Tracks: Medical Physics; Computational Biology
Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Training Track: Computational Biology
Research Interests: Computational Biology; Systems biology and functional Genomics; Machine learning and statistics for biomedical science; Genomic sequence-based regulation
Associate Faculty
These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program activities.
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Applying new technologies to improve clinical operations, and working in partnership with physicians to develop novel techniques.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Eukaryotic chromatin organization, mutational rates and spectra, biological signals and noise
Professor
Research Interests: Urology; laparoscopy, telesurgical mentoring
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Active machine learning driven cancer drug discovery
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Sub concussive head impact exposure in contact sports, traumatic brain injury, magnetoencephalography
Associate Professor
Research Interests: MR medical physics, adaptive radiotherapy, imaging, deep learning, MRI, radiology, NMR, pattern recognition, neuroradiology, AI, artificial intelligence, oncology
Professor
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
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Biomaterials; circulatory assist devices
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Deep learning application in magnetic resonance imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE- MRI)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Tissue-Response modeling in radiation therapy
Professor
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
Professor
Research Interests: Circulatory assist devices, cardiac metabolism
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Statistics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, genome-wide association studies
Professor
Research Interests: Cervical cancer, developmental therapeutics, ovarian cancer, early detection of ovarian cancer
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Molecular-imaging instrumentation, linear and nonlinear diffraction tomography, tensor tomography, applied inverse problems
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neuroimaging, MRI, Dynamic Brain Connectivity, Dopamine, Astrocytes, Reward and Learning
Assistant Professor
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
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular Imaging, lung cancer, kidney cancer, tumor microenvironment
Professor
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
Professor
Research Interests: fMRI; DICOMs
Professor
Research Interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; stereotactic radiation therapy
Associate Professor
Research Interests: In vivo MRS for studies of energy and phospholipids metabolism in brain and skeletal muscle
Professor
Research Interests: Neural cardiovascular control during exercise; reflex dysfunction in heart failure; reflex dysfunction in hypertension
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Clinical applications of new spectral CT technologies
Assistant Professor
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
Professor
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
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biomaterial grafts, coatings and scaffolds; finite element analysis; polymer synthesis; bioresorbable polymer characterization
Associate Professor
Research Interests: High-performance computing; infrastructure for radiation therapy; radiobiological effects
Associate Professor
Research Interests: PET, SPECT, Deep Learning
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Adrenal disorders, relationship between obesity and metabolic health and hyposialylation of IgG in adolescent patients
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Applied mathematics and MRI methods for translational research in liver imaging with special focus on evaluation of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Quantitative MRI acquisition and analysis, MRI safety
