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
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
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
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