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Current
Areas of Research
The BIOE faculty represents
the
best
of scientists in the field today. Following is a list of our
faculty members
along with their areas of interest:
Bahman
Anvari – Laser-tissue interactions, dermatological
applications,
optical tweezers, membrane mechanics
Kyriacos
Athanasiou – Biomechanics, tissue engineering of
cartilage,
knee meniscus, temporomandibular joint
Michael
A. Barry – Gene therapy and genetic immunization
John
W. Clark, Jr. – Electrophysiology (neural, cardiac),
mathematical
modeling, signal processing methods, nonlinear system dynamics,
electromagnetic
field theory
Rebekah
A. Drezek – Biophotonics, in vivo optical
spectroscopy and
imaging, minimally invasive medical diagnostics, high resolution
cancer
imaging
J.
David Hellums – Reactions of blood and vascular cells
to
mechanical stress, oxygen transport, blood substitutes
Michael
A. Liebschner – Spine/bone biomechanics,
computational biomechanics,
tissue engineering, tissue fracture mechanics
Jianpeng
Ma – Computational studies of the structure-function
relationships
of proteins
Larry
V. McIntire (Department Chair) – Bioengineering
aspects of
vascular biology, cellular engineering, tissue engineering, tissue
culture
reactors
Antonios
G. Mikos – Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue
engineering
Robert
M. Raphael – Cell mechanics, biophysics of cochlear
hair
cells, modeling, nonviral gene delivery
Ka-Yiu
San – Biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering,
protein
separation
Ann Saterbak – Developing and teaching undergraduate
laboratory
and lecture courses, curriculum development and assessment, and
undergraduate
student advising
Jennifer
L. West – Biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug
delivery
Kyriacos
Zygourakis – Cell motility and adhesion, tissue
engineering,
mathematical modeling of cellular systems
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