Focus Areas

Jennifer Barton – miniature endoscopes
Ali Bilgin – MRI and X-ray optimization
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
Linda Powers – pathogen sensors and diagnostics
Marek Romanowski – contrast agent development
Marvin Slepian – artificial heart
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
Russell Witte – ultrasound and electrode technology development
Jeong-Yeol Yoon – handheld LAMP and PCR systems for pathogen identification

Philipp Gutruf – soft inorganic electronic materials and sensors
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
Marek Romanowski – nanoparticle and liposome materials for drug delivery
Marvin Slepian – polymeric biomaterials, biodegradable stents, drug-eluting stents and artificial heart
John Szivek – 3D-printable materials for implantation with adult stem cells
Fernando Teran Arce – membrane-mediated cytotoxicity mechanisms
Jeong-Yeol Yoon – paper-based systems for tissue engineering and organ-on-a-chip applications
Yitshak Zohar – microfluidic systems for bio-chemical-medical applications

Wolfgang Fink – ocular biomechanics
Samantha Harris – force measurements in cardiac muscle cells to understand mechanisms of cardiac contraction
Minkyu Kim – molecular biomechanics
Kaveh Laksari – injury biomechanics
David Margolis – musculoskeletal tissue biomechanics
Marvin Slepian – cardiovascular and tubular organ functionality
John Szivek – load sharing induced by orthopedic implants
Fernando Teran Arce – biomechanics of cells and membranes
Nima Toosizadeh – finite element modeling, motion analysis, and assessment of function and cognitive decline in aging population
Rebecca Vanderpool – cardiovascular hemodynamics
Russell Witte – ultrasound elasticity and shear wave imaging

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
Arthur Gmitro – multimodality imaging methods and techniques, confocal microendoscopy
Dongkyun Kang – in vivo microscopy
Jen Watson Koevary – cardiovascular imaging
Kaveh Laksari – neuroimaging in biomechanics
Linda Powers – sensors and diagnostics using various spectroscopic techniques
Manoj Saranathan – ultrafast and dynamic MRI, MRI physics and reconstruction with applications to cancer, metabolism, and inflammation
T. Judith Su – optical resonators and biophotonics
Fernando Teran Arce – atomic force microscopy
Ted Trouard – neurological imaging via MRI
Evan Unger – ultrasound agents
Urs Utzinger – clinical imaging instrumentation to evaluate gynecological and gastrointestinal cancer
Russell Witte – hybrid imaging with light, sound and microwaves
Jeong-Yeol Yoon – smartphone app instant optical scanner

Ali Bilgin – data compression
Jean-Marc Fellous – computational neuroscience, biophysical modeling
Wolfgang Fink – computer-based classification of visual field data
Vignesh Subbian – computational medicine, biomedical data science and informatics
Rebecca Vanderpool – prognostic and diastolic markers of right ventricular function in patients with pulmonary vascular disease

Philipp Gutruf – soft, bio-integrated, wireless battery free sensor systems
Samantha Harris – developing force and proximity sensors using FRET.
Linda Powers – bio-based sensors with biological function as recognition element
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
Rebecca Vanderpool – pressure transducers for analysis of pulmonary hypertension
Jeong-Yeol Yoon – smartphone biosensors for medical diagnostics

Jennifer Barton – minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of cardiovascular disease
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
Fernando Teran Arce – cell mechanics, cytoskeletal organization and membrane properties in relation to lung and cardiovascular diseases
Evan Unger – nanodroplets for sonothrombolysis treatment of acute myocardial infarction
Rebecca Vanderpool – cardiovascular hemodynamics, right ventricular function, pulmonary vascular disease and hypertension
Russell Witte – acoustoelectric imaging
Jeong-Yeol Yoon – adhesion between tissue and implanted cardiovascular implanted devices

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
Fernando Teran Arce – nanoscale imaging
Evan Unger – nanoemulsion for oxygen delivery for clinical trials for stroke and brain cancer
Yitshak Zohar – organ on a chip

Nan-kuei Chen – human brain connectivity imaging
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
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
Vignesh Subbian – traumatic brain injury and intelligent systems and applied machine learning for neurological disorders
Fernando Teran Arce – Alzheimer’s disease
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