Faculty Directory

	Adam Anderson Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, including functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Franz Baudenbacher Research Focus: Bioinstrumentation, bio-micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS), biophysical description of cellular cardiac function Intellectual Neighborhoods: Cyber-physical Systems	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Brett Byram Research Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamforming Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Mark Does Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Craig Duvall Research Focus: Drug delivery, regenerative medicine, RAFT polymerization, stimuli responsive polymers, intracellular delivery of biomacromolecular drugs, on demand drug release, nanocarrier in vivo pharmacokinetics, molecularly-targeted breast cancer therapy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Surgery and Engineering,Nano Science and Technology	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Todd Giorgio Research Focus: Protease-responsive biosensors for siRNA and drug delivery in vitro and in vivo, advanced materials for immunomodulation devices for sepsis treatment. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	John Gore Research Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniques Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	William Grissom Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging; Inverse problems; Optimization;Signal processing; Electromagnetics. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Frederick Haselton Research Focus: Microfluidic transport of particles, multi-spectral quantum dot-based retinal imaging, DNA logic operations for viral diagnostics, molecular basis of corneal regeneration both in homeostasis and wound repair Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	E. Duco Jansen Research Focus: Laser-tissue interaction; optical neural interfaces; modulation of neural activity using infrared laser light; cellular effects of laser-induced stimuli; application of light, lasers and optical technology in medicine and biology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Michael King Research Focus: cellular engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Nano Science and Technology	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Anita Mahadevan-Jansen Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for diagnosis of pathology. Primary research areas use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopics for cancer and precancer detection. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	David Merryman Research Focus: Mechanobiology, GPCR targeted drug strategies, percutaneous interventions, tissue engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Michael Miga Research Focus: Detection, diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of disease through the integration of computational models into research and clinical practice Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	K. Arthur Overholser Research Focus: Engineering education. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Cynthia Paschal Research Focus: MR angiography, MRI of lungs, cardiopulmonary MRI techniques and applications, CT, industry relations, study abroad and international relations, design program, and student professional development Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Cynthia Reinhart-King Research Focus: Cell-extracellular matrix interactions, biomaterials, microfabricated cellular platforms, cell mechanics in disease, cell migration, cellular engineering, angiogenesis, tumor cell metastasis, atherosclerosis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Yuankai (Kenny) Tao Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	John Wikswo Research Focus: Biological physics, biomedical engineering, cardiac and cellular electrophysiology, cellular instrumentation and control, complex matter, electromagnetism, non-linear dynamics.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Amanda Lowery	02Teaching
	Christina Marasco Research Focus: Low-cost, portable sensors, diagnostic technologies, preventative health and wellness; chemical and biological sensing; microfluidics; education and health applications of virtual reality	02Teaching
	Matthew Walker Research Focus: Developing nano and micro-particle delivery systems. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	02Teaching
	Nicholas Adams Research Focus: Development of diagnostic tools for infectious diseases with a focus on sample preparation, amplification, and detection of nucleic acid and protein biomarkers.	03Research
	Cyndi Clark Research Focus: cardiovascular disease, including myocardial fibrosis and aortic valve calcification; cellular signaling and mechanotransduction; new therapies to slow the progression of disease	03Research
	Yurui Gao Research Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	03Research
	Mukesh Gupta Research Focus: Stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials, polymerization methods, organic synthesis, biopolymers, targeted drug/gene delivery Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	03Research
	Kevin Harkins Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimization Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	03Research
	Dmitry Markov Research Focus: Cancer microenvironment; microfluidics; bioreactors; long-term 3D tissue culture; Organ-on-a-Chip Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Nano Science and Technology	03Research
	Sinead Miller	03Research
	Patricia Russ Research Focus: Diagnostic device development for low resource settings	03Research
	Veniamin Sidorov	03Research
	Eric Spivey Research Focus: Microfluidics for single-cell imaging and analysis, design of ion source for high-resolution MALDI imaging mass spectrometry. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	03Research
	Jared Weis Research Focus: Integration of computational modeling and medical imaging to investigate the multi-scale influences of mechanics in cancer progression and response to therapy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	03Research
	Zhenjiang Zhang	03Research
	Justin Baba Research Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Valerie Guenst	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Stacy Klein-Gardner Research Focus: Designing and evaluating biomedical engineering modules for use in K-12 and college levels. Developing safe, hands-on, inexpensive ways to teach medical imaging.	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Judy Lewis	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Leon Bellan Research Focus: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Nano Science and Technology	05Affiliated
	Daniel Brown Research Focus: Intravascular measurement of therapeutic endpoints and catheter/ablation tracking to target delivery of brachy/chemotherapy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	Amanda Buck Research Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imaging Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Charles Caskey	05Affiliated
	James Cassat	05Affiliated
	Eduard Chekmenev	05Affiliated
	Andre Churchwell Research Focus: Engineering Design Education Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	Rebecca Cook	05Affiliated
	Bruce Damon Research Focus: Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging methods for studying healthy and pathologic skeletal muscle structure and function Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	Benoit Dawant Research Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Big Data Science and Engineering,Surgery and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Andre Diedrich	05Affiliated
	Zhaohua Ding Research Focus: medical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	Edwin Donnelly	05Affiliated
	Richard Dortch Research Focus: MRI of peripheral nerves and spinal cord; quantitative MRI, including diffusion, magnetization transfer, and T2 relaxometry	05Affiliated
	Dario Englot Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	William Fissell Research Focus: Tissue engineering, transport, artificial organs, dialysis, pharmacokinetic modeling	05Affiliated
	Daniel France Intellectual Neighborhoods: Risk and Reliability,Big Data Science and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Scott Guelcher Research Focus: Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymeric biomaterials for bone tissue engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	05Affiliated
	Paul Harris Research Focus: Biomedical informatics, signal analysis, image analysis, and noninvasive determination of physiological properties.	05Affiliated
	S. Duke Herrell	05Affiliated
	Karen Joos Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Robert Labadie	05Affiliated
	Bennett Landman Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering,Big Data Science and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Ethan Lippmann Research Focus: Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) differentiation, genetic engineering, microscale fabrication and surface modification, and molecular selection/directed evolution Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	05Affiliated
	H. Charles Manning	05Affiliated
	Victoria Morgan Research Focus: developing non-invasive brain imaging methods to map normal and pathological neural networks, most specifically in epilepsy, brain tumors and mild traumatic brain injury	05Affiliated
	Gregor Neuert Research Focus: Quantitative Systems Biology of signal transduction and gene regulation of coding and non-coding RNA Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Regenerative Medicine,Big Data Science and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Jeffry Nyman Research Focus: Regulators of bone toughness, Diagnosing bone disease with MRI and Raman spectroscopy, Effect of diabetes on bone Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Surgery and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Reed Omary Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering,Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Nano Science and Technology	05Affiliated
	Aron Parekh Research Focus: mechanobiology, biomechanics, cancer cell invasion, wound healing, invadopodia, contractility, microenvironment, extracellular matrix, traction forces, rigidity Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	05Affiliated
	Wellington Pham Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging with focus on molecular probes and biomarkers for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	David Piston Research Focus: Glucose metabolism and insulin secretion in beta cells within intact functioning pancreatic islets	05Affiliated
	Marjan Rafat Research Focus: Tumor microenvironment, biomimetic materials, tissue biomechanics, tumor-stromal interactions, tumor immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	05Affiliated
	Jeff Reese Research Focus: Optical analysis/Raman spectroscopy of reproductive tissues; pregnancy and parturition; fetal vascular development. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics	05Affiliated
	Baxter Rogers Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Big Data Science and Engineering	05Affiliated
	Joseph Schlesinger Research Focus: multisensory integration, human factors, aural perception, temporal precision, alarm development, patient monitoring, and medical education	05Affiliated
	Seth Smith	05Affiliated
	Julie Sterling	05Affiliated
	Wesley Thayer Research Focus: translational research including wounds, hand surgery, and nerve repair strategies to improve outcomes after injury	05Affiliated
	Eric Tkaczyk Research Focus: Biophotonics, image processing, machine learning, biomechanics, dermatology	05Affiliated
	Justin Turner	05Affiliated
	E. Brian Welch Research Focus: Fat-water MRI; imaging of brown adipose tissue and adipose tissue triglyceride properties; continuously moving table MRI	05Affiliated
	James West Research Focus: Pulmonary vascular disease, heart disease; Genetically modified animals, biomechanics of the vasculature and the right ventricle	05Affiliated
	John Wilson Research Focus: Molecularly engineered materials, intracellular delivery of antigens and molecular adjuvants, engineering vaccine colloids and surfaces, cancer immunotherapy, diabetes and islet transplantation Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Nano Science and Technology	05Affiliated
	Junzhong Xu	05Affiliated
	Karl Zelik Research Focus: Biomechanics of legged locomotion, lower-limb prosthetics, assistive technology, dynamic walking principles, neural control, human-device interfaces, mobility, rehabilitation engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Cyber-physical Systems,Rehabilitation Engineering	05Affiliated
	Robert Galloway Research Focus: Technology-guided therapy, medical devices, medical imaging Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	06Emeritus
	Thomas Harris Research Focus: Physiological transport phenomena, computer simulation of cardiopulmonary function, infrared biosensors of cardiopulmonary function.	06Emeritus
	Paul King Research Focus: Medical instrumentation, computerized operating room monitoring, expert systems in anesthesiology.	06Emeritus
	Robert Roselli Research Focus: Lung fluid balance, physiological transport phenomena, functional imaging of the lung circulation, biosensors of cardiopulmonary function, biomechanics.	06Emeritus
	Richard Shiavi Research Focus: Signal processing applied to biomedical applications and speech, innovations in engineering education	06Emeritus

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