Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative medicine works to replace, engineer and heal damaged tissues and organs. Biomedical, chemical and biomolecular engineering research may involve tissue engineering, drug delivery, drug efficacy and molecular biology.

Faculty involved in regenerative medicine research:

	Rizia Bardhan Research Focus: Solar energy conversion, nanomedicine and biosensing, active plasmonic/photonic metamaterials. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Leon Bellan Research Focus: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Ravindra Duddu Research Focus: Computational solid mechanics, multi-scale and multi-physics fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, cohesive zone modeling of fatigue delamination, extended finite element method and level set method, computational geophysics. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	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	10
	Todd Giorgio Research Focus: Protease-responsive biosensors for cancer and atherosclerosis imaging, theranostic systems for combined imaging and drug delivery, gene and siRNA delivery in vitro and in vivo, phage display for discovery of functional peptides for drug and gene delivery applications. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Scott Guelcher Research Focus: Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymeric biomaterials for bone tissue engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Mukesh Gupta Research Focus: Stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials, polymerization methods, organic synthesis, biopolymers, targeted drug/gene delivery Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	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: Regenerative Medicine	10
	William Hofmeister Research Focus: Additive Manufacture, Laser/Material Processing, bioMEMS. Nucleation, solidification and diamond microelectronics. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Michael King Research Focus: cellular engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Ethan Lippmann Research Focus: Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) differentiation, genetic engineering, microscale fabrication and surface modification, and molecular selection/directed evolution Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	David Merryman Research Focus: Mechanobiology, GPCR targeted drug strategies, percutaneous interventions, tissue engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Gregor Neuert Research Focus: Quantitative Systems Biology of signal transduction and gene regulation of coding and non-coding RNA Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	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	10
	Aron Parekh Research Focus: mechanobiology, biomechanics, cancer cell invasion, wound healing, invadopodia, contractility, microenvironment, extracellular matrix, traction forces, rigidity Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Peter Pintauro Research Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	Marjan Rafat Research Focus: Tumor microenvironment, biomimetic materials, tissue biomechanics, tumor-stromal interactions, tumor immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	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	10
	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	10
	Hak-Joon Sung Research Focus: Combinatorial biomaterials and biointerface, stem cell engineering, engineering aspect of cardiovascular medicine, and tissue engineering. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10
	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	10
	Jamey Young Research Focus: Metabolic engineering; systems biology; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; tumor metabolism; autotrophic metabolism; cell culture engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	10