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Focus Areas

Bioinstrumentation and Devices

  • Jennifer Barton – miniature endoscopes
  • Ali Bilgin – MRI and X-ray optimization
  • Stephen Cowen – devices monitoring animal learning and movement
  • Jean-Marc Fellous – neural implants
  • Wolfgang Fink – artificial vision and vision prostheses
  • Dongkyun Kang – miniature microscopy devices
  • Kaveh Laksari – acceleration-triggered restraint system for brain injury prevention
  • David Margolis – in vivo bone strain measurement
  • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse – devices integrating microfluidics, microscopy and optogenetic stimulation
  • Marek Romanowski – contrast agent development
  • Travis Sawyer - development of optical imaging endoscopes for cancer detection
  • Marvin Slepian – artificial heart
  • Shang Song – implantable biohybrid devices for tissue and organ replacement
  • T. Judith Su – microfabrication of optical instrument
  • John Szivek – implantable sensors and radio telemetry
  • Nima Toosizadeh – body-worn sensor technology in healthy and geriatric patients
  • Urs Utzinger – fiber optic sensing and microscopy
  • Jason Wertheim – 3D printing and bioreactor development for tissue engineering
  • Russell Witte – ultrasound and electrode technology development
  • Jeong-Yeol Yoon – handheld LAMP and PCR systems for pathogen identification

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

  • Kellen Chen – three dimensional tissue engineered scar to mimic physiologic human healing
  • Jared Churko – generation and assembly of various iPSC-derived cell types into tissue constructs
  • Geoffrey Gurtner – use of 3D tissue engineered scaffolds that mimic scar formation in vitro
  • Philipp Gutruf – soft inorganic electronic materials and sensors
  • Kavan Hazeli – design, manufacturing, testing, and optimizing biomaterials and medical implants
  • Minkyu Kim – artificial protein polymer design, protein and polymer synthesis, (bio)polymer physics and chemistry, synthetic biology, bioconjugation, soft materials, and antimicrobial biomaterials
  • David Margolis – bone and cartilage tissue engineering
  • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse – synthetic multicellular systems with applications for health, environment, biosynthesis and biomaterials
  • Marek Romanowski – nanoparticle and liposome materials for drug delivery
  • Marvin Slepian – polymeric biomaterials, biodegradable stents, drug-eluting stents and artificial heart
  • Shang Song – cell-based microfluidics for organ-on-chip systems; engineered cellular microenvironment for neural regeneration, muscle rehabilitation, diabetes, and bone tissue engineering; cell-material constructs to mimic tissue interfaces
  • John Szivek – 3D-printable materials for implantation with adult stem cells
  • Jason Wertheim – liver, kidney and vascular tissue engineering
  • Jeong-Yeol Yoon – paper-based systems for tissue engineering and organ-on-a-chip applications
  • Yitshak Zohar – microfluidic systems for bio-chemical-medical applications

Biomechanics

  • Kellen Chen – mechanical signaling on fibrosis and regeneration across various organ systems including the skin
  • Wolfgang Fink – ocular biomechanics
  • Geoffrey Gurtner – targeting mechanotransduction pathways to prevent fibrosis or mitigate the foreign body response (FBR) to biomedical implants
  • Samantha Harris – force measurements in cardiac muscle cells to understand mechanisms of cardiac contraction
  • Kavan Hazeli – human centered design and injury prevention
  • Minkyu Kim – molecular biomechanics
  • Kaveh Laksari – injury biomechanics
  • Daniel Latt – foot and ankle biomechanics
  • Zong-Ming Li – musculoskeletal biomechanics
  • David Margolis – musculoskeletal tissue biomechanics
  • Kristen Renner – various techniques including motion capture to optimize the outcomes of orthopedic surgeries and sports injuries
  • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse – synthetic cell-cell adhesins to shape the visco-elastic properties of novel biomaterials
  • Marvin Slepian – cardiovascular and tubular organ functionality
  • Shang Song – cellular biomechanics; regenerative rehabilitation
  • John Szivek – load sharing induced by orthopedic implants
  • Jil C. Tardiff – mechanical properties of cardiac function in health and disease assessed at the cellular and whole heart levels
  • Nima Toosizadeh – finite element modeling, motion analysis, and assessment of function and cognitive decline in aging population
  • Russell Witte – ultrasound elasticity and shear wave imaging

Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy

  • Jennifer Barton – optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy
  • Ali Bilgin – accelerated MRI and MR parameter mapping, cancer imaging
  • Nan-kuei Chen – motion-immune clinical MRI, MRI corrections and improvements
  • Wolfgang Fink – Scheimpflug imaging and ray tracing
  • Julia Fisher – development of statistical methods for functional MRI data, simulation of functional neuroimaging (MRI) data
  • Arthur Gmitro – multimodality imaging methods and techniques, confocal microendoscopy
  • Elizabeth Hutchinson – quantitative preclinical MRI
  • Dongkyun Kang – in vivo microscopy
  • Jen Watson Koevary – cardiovascular imaging
  • Kaveh Laksari – neuroimaging in biomechanics
  • Zong-Ming Li – MRI, CT, and ultrasound imaging
  • Manoj Saranathan – ultrafast and dynamic MRI, MRI physics and reconstruction with applications to cancer, metabolism, and inflammation
  • Travis Sawyer - development of new imaging techniques and algorithms for disease diagnosis and screening
  • T. Judith Su – optical resonators and biophotonics
  • Jil C. Tardiff – time-resolved and steady-state FRET, differential scanning calorimetry, isothermal calorimetry, stopped-flow fluorescence spectroscopy, regulated in vitro motility, intramyocellular calcium flux
  • Ted Trouard – neurological imaging via MRI
  • Evan Unger – ultrasound agents
  • Urs Utzinger – clinical imaging instrumentation to evaluate gynecological and gastrointestinal cancer
  • Srinivasan Vedantham – design, development and clinical translation of novel X-ray/CT imaging systems and techniques
  • Russell Witte – hybrid imaging with light, sound and microwaves
  • Jeong-Yeol Yoon – smartphone app instant optical scanner

Biomedical Informatics

  • Ali Bilgin – data compression
  • Kellen Chen – single cell RNA sequencing of human disease tissue and animal model response to therapeutics
  • Jared Churko – single-cell RNA sequencing, ChIP sequencing, whole genome sequencing
  • Jean-Marc Fellous – computational neuroscience, biophysical modeling
  • Wolfgang Fink – computer-based classification of visual field data
  • Julia Fisher – experimental design, statistical analysis of experimental and observational data, biomedical informatics
  • Geoffrey Gurtner – gene analysis with single cell RNA sequencing from various cell types from a variety of disease states
  • Vignesh Subbian – computational medicine, biomedical data science and informatics

Biosensors

  • Stephen Cowen – devices sensing neural activity and dopamine in behaving animals
  • Geoffrey Gurtner – wearable electronics to sense the current wound state and deliver therapeutic electrical stimulation to improve healing
  • Philipp Gutruf – soft, bio-integrated, wireless battery-free sensor systems
  • Samantha Harris – developing force and proximity sensors using FRET.
  • David Margolis – in vivo bone strain and force measurements
  • Marvin Slepian – gene sequencing and platelet activation
  • T. Judith Su – label-free single-molecule detection
  • John Szivek – implantable strain and load measurement systems
  • Urs Utzinger – biosensors for minimally invasive cancer detection
  • Jeong-Yeol Yoon – smartphone biosensors for medical diagnostics

Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering

  • Jennifer Barton – minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of cardiovascular disease
  • Jared Churko – optical mapping, contraction force, cardiac cell generation from iPSCs
  • Wolfgang Fink – wearable-sensor-based stress management
  • Samantha Harris – cardiovascular diseases such as cardiomyopathies and how engineering approaches can provide insights into cardiac physiology
  • Minkyu Kim – atherosclerosis
  • Jen Watson Koevary – therapeutics and toxicity screening
  • Kaveh Laksari – aortic injury due to dynamic bending
  • Marek Romanowski – augmented and holographic imaging for surgical guidance
  • Marvin Slepian – end-stage congestive heart failure and artificial replacements to bridge support until transplant
  • T. Judith Su – micropatterning of extracellular matrix molecules for cellular control
  • Jil C. Tardiff – mouse models of genetic cardiomyopathies and the development of small molecule inhibitors to alter disease progression
  • Evan Unger – nanodroplets for sonothrombolysis treatment of acute myocardial infarction
  • Jason Wertheim – endothelial biology and blood vessel development and engineering
  • Russell Witte – acoustoelectric imaging
  • Jeong-Yeol Yoon – adhesion between tissue and implanted cardiovascular implanted devices

Nanomedicine

  • Minkyu Kim – nanoscale biopolymer physics
  • Marek Romanowski – new methods of delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents
  • Marvin Slepian – local drug delivery and novel therapeutics
  • T. Judith Su – microfluidics
  • Evan Unger – nanoemulsion for oxygen delivery for clinical trials for stroke and brain cancer
  • Jason Wertheim – nanoparticle development and drug delivery
  • Yitshak Zohar – organ on a chip

Neuroengineering

  • Nan-kuei Chen – human brain connectivity imaging
  • Jared Churko – generation of neural progenitor cells, neurons and other brain-specific cells from iPSCs
  • Stephen Cowen – devices sensing neural activity and dopamine in behaving animals
  • Erika Eggers – visual neuroscience, studying the function of retinal neurons with single-cell electrophysiology, confocal imaging, optogenetics and modeling
  • Jean-Marc Fellous – in vivo behaving neurophysiology, spatial navigation, memory and emotions circuits
  • Wolfgang Fink – human and brain-machine interfaces
  • Philipp Gutruf – all optical, wireless and subdermally implanted optogenetic tools
  • Kaveh Laksari – traumatic brain injury
  • Zong-Ming Li – hand motor control
  • Marek Romanowski – augmented and holographic imaging for surgical guidance
  • Manoj Saranathan – MRI of deep brain structures, MRI-guided deep brain stimulation surgery, neuro-image processing
  • Shang Song – conductive biomaterials and neural stem cells for neurological diseases; organ-on-chip for neural applications; generation of neural progenitor cells
  • Vignesh Subbian – traumatic brain injury and intelligent systems and applied machine learning for neurological disorders
  • Nima Toosizadeh – cognition decline due to aging
  • Ted Trouard – development and application of MRI for neuroimaging and drug delivery in neurological disorders
  • Urs Utzinger – whole-brain imaging microscopy
  • Russell Witte – electrical brain imaging
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