Faculty
Department Chair
Joseph A. Izatt
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical optics and spectroscopy, coherence-based imaging and microscopy, novel instrumentation for minimally invasive medical diagnostics, and real-time image-guided robotic microsurgery.
Primary Faculty
Roger C. Barr
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Bioelectricity and biomedical computing.
Elizabeth K Bucholz
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Nenad Bursac
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Embryonic and adult stem cell therapies for heart and muscle disease; cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue engineering; cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias; genetic modifications of stem and somatic cells; micropatterning of proteins and hydrogels.
Pranam D. Chatterjee
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Integration of computational and experimental methodologies to design novel proteins for applications in genome editing, targeted protein modulation, and reproductive bioengineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on biomolecular materials and biointerface science and emphasizes the development of applications that span the range from bioseparations, biosensors, biomaterials, and targeted drug delivery.
Emma Chory
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, starting August 2023
Research Interests: Directed Evolution, therapeutic discovery, epigenetics and genomics, High-throughput automation, synthetic biology, protein engineering
Joel Collier
Theodore Kennedy Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: The design of biomaterials for a range of biomedical applications, with a focus on understanding and controlling adaptive immune responses. Most materials investigated are created from molecular assemblies- proteins, peptides or bioconjugates that self-organize into useful…
Jessilyn Dunn
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Use of large-scale biomedical datasets to model and guide personalized therapies.
Timothy Dunn
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, neurobiology, animal behavior, computational neuroscience, prognostic modeling, traumatic brain injury
Sina Farsiu
Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biolmedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on medical imaging and machine learning to improve the overall health and vision outcome of patients with ocular and neurological diseases (e.g., age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, Alzheimer, and ALS) through earlier and personalized therapy.
Paul J Fearis
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Innovation & product development processes, design for manufacture
Sharon Gerecht
Paul M. Gross Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: stem cells, biomaterials, hypoxia, blood vessels, physics of cancer, regenerative medicine
Charles Gersbach
John W. Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Gene therapy, genomics and epigenomics, biomolecular and cellular engineering, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology.
Yiyang Gong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Warren M. Grill
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Neural engineering and neural prostheses and include design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissues and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications in restoration of bladder function, treatment of movement disorders…
Brenton D. Hoffman
James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on understanding, on a molecular level, how mechanical and chemical cues from the environment are detected, integrated, and manipulated by cells to dictate physiological and patho-physiological responses important in vascular biology.
Roarke Horstmeyer
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Computational optics, machine learning, and designing new algorithms for image processing. A main focus is to improve how we capture and use images of microscopic phenomena within a range of biomedical contexts. In general, I like to create new optical devices that can improve…
David F. Katz
Nello L. Teer, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Methods for prophylaxis against STD's, emphasizing topical microbicides and contraception; biofluid mechanics; rheology and transport phenomena; biophysical aspects of mammalian sperm motility, sperm transport, and fertilization; and biomechanical functioning of the vitreous of…
Cameron M Kim
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Aaron M Kyle
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Michael D Lynch
W. H. Gardner, Jr. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on genetically engineering microbes to shut off their growth circuits and turn on new pathways to produce different compounds—improving production of biofuels, pharmacological molecules and industrial chemicals.
Cameron C McIntyre
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Neural engineering, computational neuroscience, brain imaging, and the design of human neuromodulation systems. Special expertise in the biophysics of brain stimulation and recording.
Samira Musah
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), disease mechanisms, regenerative medicine, molecular and cellular basis of human kidney development and disease, organ engineering, patient-specific disease models, biomarkers, therapeutic discovery, tissue and organ transplantation,…
Barry S. Myers
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: An expert in head and neck impact injury biomechanics, Dr. Myers is interested in translational research innovation—overseeing programs to advance faculty research to market.
Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale
Theo Pilkington Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Ultrasonic and elasticity imaging, specifically nonlinear propagation, acoustic streaming and radiation force; the intentional generation of these phenomena for the purpose of tissue characterization; finite element modeling of normal and diseased tissue when exposed to…
Mikhail A. Nikiforov
Professor of Pathology
Research Interests: The main objectives of Professor Nikiforov’s research program includes identification and therapeutic exploitation of mechanisms underlying the deregulated transcription programs and metabolism in melanoma and multiple myeloma, two malignancies with no curative treatment.…
Mark L. Palmeri
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Ultrasonic imaging, specifically using acoustic radiation force to characterize the mechanical properties of tissue, and finite element analysis of soft tissue response to impulsive radiation force excitation. Other research interests include ultrasonic bioeffects and mechanical…
Nimmi Ramanujam
Robert W. Carr, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Innovating on optical strategies to peer into the biological landscape of thick tissues. Technologies being developed in her lab leverage principles of optical spectroscopy, optical sectioning microscopy, and molecular imaging. Her research group is developing and applying these…
Amanda Randles
Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research Interests: Biomedical simulation and high-performance computing
Daniel Reker
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Integration of active machine learning, biomedical data science, and biochemical experiments for the analysis and design of personalized therapeutic opportunities.
Eric S Richardson
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Innovation, Medical Device Design, Design Ethnography, Design Pedagogy, Global Health Technologies, Entrepreneurship.
Michael Rizk
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: First-year engineering education, with a focus on design
Michael Rubinstein
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Polymer theory and computer simulations
Ann Saterbak
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Innovations in undergraduate engineering education, particularly new pedagogical methods that broaden students’ problem solving skills and design thinking.
Tatiana Segura
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: The design of biomaterials to promote endogenous repair and reducing inflammation through the design of the geometry of the material, and delivering genes, proteins and drugs.
Marc A. Sommer
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Neuronal circuits of the brain, including recording from single neurons and studying the effects of inactivating or stimulating well-defined brain areas. His goals are to understand how individual areas process signals and how multiple areas interact to cause cognition and…
Michael Raphael Tadross
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Our goal is to bridge the gap between the study of brain as a computational device and the search for novel neuropathological treatments. We develop technologies to manipulate molecules, cells, and synapses in the brain, and deploy these reagents in mouse models of disease.
Gregg E. Trahey
Robert Plonsey Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Medical ultrasound, image guided surgery, adaptive imaging, imaging of tissue's mechanical properties, and radiation force imaging.
George A. Truskey
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
Shyni Varghese
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Orthopaedics
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology
Jonathan Viventi
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Using flexible electronics to create new technology for interfacing with the brain at high resolution over large areas. These new tools can help diagnose and treat neurological disorders such as epilepsy, and help improve the performance of brain machine interfaces.
Tuan Vo-Dinh
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biophotonics, laser-excited luminescence spectroscopy, room temperature phosphorimetry, synchronous luminescence spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, field environmental instrumentation, fiberoptics sensors, nanosensors, biosensors and biochips for the protection…
Olaf T. Von Ramm
Thomas Lord Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, IR imaging, medical instrumentation and their new applications.
Adam P. Wax
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
Patrick D. Wolf
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Advanced instrumentation for diagnosis and treatment of electrophysiological problems. This research covers two primary organ systems: the heart and the brain. In the heart, Dr. Wolf is developing an image guided ablation system for treatment of arrhythmias. In the brain, he is…
Junjie Yao
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies, and translating PAT advances into diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially in functional brain imaging and early cancer theranostics.
Lingchong You
James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome
Fan Yuan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Principles and mechanisms of delivery for drugs, genes, and vaccines; pharmacokinetics; electrotransfer or electroporation technology; and tumor pathophysiology.
Secondary Faculty
Gaurav Arya
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Molecular modeling, molecular simulations, statistical mechanics, coarse-graining, machine learning, polymer and colloidal physics, polymer-nanoparticle composites, chromatin biophysics, DNA nanotechnology, viral DNA packaging, single-molecule force spectroscopy, nanoscale…
Aravind Asokan
Professor in Surgery
Research Interests: VirologyRNA BiologyViral EngineeringRNA EngineeringGene TherapyGene EditingGene RegulationRegenerative Medicine
Alexandra Badea
Associate Professor in Radiology
Research Interests: Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Imaging, MRI, Connectivity, Multivariate Biomarkers, Image Analysis, Neurological Conditions.
Cristian Tudorel Badea
Professor in Radiology
Research Interests: Spectral CT, Cardiac CT, Image Reconstruction, Deep Learning, Nanoparticles, Theranostics, Co-Clinical cancer trials, Small Animal Imaging
Jeffrey Beck
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Matthew L Becker
Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Polymer chemistry; bioconjugate chemistry; molecular imaging and additive manufacturing; materials for bone, soft tissue, neural and vascular tissue engineering; drug and protein delivery; degradable materials for flexible electronics
Karl-Dimiter Bissig
Chen Family Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests: Our group is interested in diseases of the liver, ranging from viral hepatitis to metabolic liver disorders and liver cancer. The lab specializes in human liver chimeric mice and created the first xenograft model for metabolic liver disease as well as a novel patient derived…
Leslie M. Collins
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Physics-based machine learning algorithms for big data, including developing remediation strategies for the hearing impaired and sensor-based algorithms for the detection of hazardous buried objects
Louis Edwin DeFrate
Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Bastiaan Driehuys
Professor of Radiology
Kafui Dzirasa
A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor
Peter Edward Fecci
Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Brain Tumor ImmunotherapyCancer-Induced Immune DysfunctionGlioblastomaBrain Metastasis
Greg D. Field
Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Ken Gall
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Materials science, mechanical properties, metals and polymers. Specialties: Shape memory materials, biomaterials, 3D printing.
Geoffrey Steven Ginsburg
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine
Xiao Hu
Ann Henshaw Gardiner Distinguished Professor of Nursing
Research Interests: Biomedical signal processing (ECG, EEG, PPG, ICP, cerebral blood flow velocity), machine learning in healthcare, mathematical modeling of physiological systems, brain monitoring.
Josh Huang
Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience
Tony Jun Huang
William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Acoustofluidics, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, biomedical micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS), optofluidics, plasmofluidics.
G. Allan Johnson
Charles E. Putman University Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Anthony Nanlin Kuo
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Joseph Yuan-Chieh Lo
Professor in Radiology
Piotr E. Marszalek
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Investigating relationships between structural and mechanical properties of biopolymers (polysaccharides, DNA, proteins), at a single molecule level.
Amy Lynn McNulty
Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Angel V Peterchev
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Timothy E Reddy
Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics,
Ehsan Samei
Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology
John Howard Sampson
Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine
Guillermo Sapiro
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Image and video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, computational vision, biomedical imaging, brain imaging, cryo-tomography of viruses, computational tools in cryo-tomography, computational tools in early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, differential geometry and…
Christoph F. Schmidt
Hertha Sponer Distinguished Professor of Physics
William Paul Segars
Associate Professor in Radiology
Allen W Song
Professor in Radiology
Derek Southwell
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Interests: Human neuroscience, inhibitory circuits, interneurons, cerebral cortex, cell transplantation, epilepsy, movement disorders.
Bruce Alan Sullenger
Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery
Martin Paul Tornai
Associate Professor of Radiology
Cynthia Ann Toth
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
Warren S. Warren
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Kris Cameron Wood
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Christopher Wildrick Woods
Wolfgang Joklik Distinguished Professor of Global Health
Benjamin Yellen
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Development of single cell analysis tools using magnetic circuits, and multiparticle assembly of colloidal crystals
Michael Rod Zalutsky
Jonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Stefan Zauscher
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Nano-mechanical and nano-tribological characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films; self-assembled monolayers, polymeric gels, and cellulosics; Fabrication of polymeric nanostructures by scanning probe lithography; Colloidal probe…
Pei Zhong
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Mechanistic investigation and technology development in shock wave and laser lithotripsy; Ultrasound-elicited mechanotransduction, neuromodulation and sonogenetics; HIFU and immunotherapy for cancer treatment; Acoustic and optical cavitation.
Research Faculty
Cameron R. Bass
Associate Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomechanics of blast, blunt and ballistic trauma and pediatric trauma. His research focuses on injury risk from microscale to macroscale for the head, neck, thorax and extremities.
Brian T Crouch
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Developing novel, low cost technologies for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics with applications in resource limited settings. Particular focus on innovative strategies to induce a robust anti-tumor immune response following ablative therapy.
Al-Hafeez Z Dhalla
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, especially optical coherence tomography, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy and LiDAR, applied to the diagnostic imaging, image guided surgery and robotic microsurgery.
Adjunct Faculty
Ravi Venkat Bellamkonda
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Engineered devices for brain tumor therapy; immunomodulation for peripheral and central nervous system repair; biomaterials; brain-machine interfaces.
Jennifer L West
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials, nanotechnology and tissue engineering that involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel biofunctional materials, and the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems.
Consulting Faculty
Blake Shaw Wilson
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Executives in Residence
Joseph A Knight
Executive in Residence in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Instructors
Kevin Michael Caves
Clinical Associate in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Kristy Fearis
Instructor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Lecturing Fellows
Charles Wallace
Lecturing Fellow, Senior in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Emeritus
Howard G. Clark
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science
Morton Friedman
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Robert A. Malkin
Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Research and development of medical equipment in the developing world.
Wanda Krassowska Neu
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Electroporation-mediated drug delivery and gene therapy; Control of cardiac arrhythmias using nonlinear dynamics
William M. Reichert
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biosensors, protein mediated cell adhesion, and wound healing.
Stephen William Smith
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Development and evaluation of improved medical ultrasound image quality for applications in cardiology, radiology and obstetrics. Advances in image quality result from improvements in the spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of diagnostic ultrasound scanners through…