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Focus Areas
Bioinstrumentation and Devices
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Jared Churko – generation and assembly of various iPSC-derived cell types into tissue constructs
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
Neuroengineering
- Nan-kuei Chen – human brain connectivity imaging
- Jared Churko – generation of neural progenitor cells, neurons and other brain-specific cells from iPSCs
- 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
- 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
