All Faculty
Department Chair
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Chilkoti's research focuses on biomolecular materials and biointerface science and emphasizes the development of applications that span the range from bioseparations, biosensors, patterned biomaterials, and targeted drug delivery.
Primary Faculty
Roger C. Barr
Professor
Research Interests: Dr. Barr's research interests include bioelectricity and biomedical computing.
Ravi Venkat Bellamkonda
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Engineered devices for brain tumor therapy; immunomodulation for peripheral and central nervous system repair; biomaterials; brain-machine interfaces.
Nenad Bursac
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Bursac's research interests include 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.
Joel Collier
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Collier's research interests relate to 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-...
Sina Farsiu
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Farsiu's research focuses on medical imaging and image processing 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.
Charles Gersbach
Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Gersbach's research interests are in gene therapy, biomolecular and cellular engineering, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology.
Yiyang Gong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: We're interested in recording and understanding brain activity by developing novel combinations of optical microscopy and genetically encoded sensors. Using these technologies, we wish to dissect neural circuit function and investigate how neural activity drives complex behaviors. Specialties:...
Warren M. Grill
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Grill's research interests and in 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...
Craig S. Henriquez
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Henriquez's research interests include large scale computing, heart modeling, and brain modeling.
Brenton D. Hoffman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Hoffman's research focuses 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 (beginning Summer 2018)
Research Interests: New ways to capture and process biomedical images; development of microscopes, cameras and computer algorithms for a wide range of applications.
Joseph A. Izatt
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Professor Izatt's research interests are in the area of biophotonics and include coherence-based biomedical imaging and microscopy, novel technologies for ophthalmic imaging, and nanoscale studies of cellular morphology and dynamics.
David F. Katz
Nello L. Teer, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Katz's research interest include 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...
Michael D Lynch
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Lynch's research focuses on genetically engineering microbes to shut off their growth circuits and turn on new pathways to produce different compounds. By focusing their energy, he seeks to improve production of biofuels, pharmacological molecules and industrial chemicals.
Robert A. Malkin
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Professor Malkin's work on medical instrumentation in the developing world has been supported by Engineering World Health, The National Institutes of Health, The American Heart Association, The Whitaker Foundation, the National Science Foundation and other organizations. The DHT-Lab runs...
Barry S. Myers
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Myers is an expert in head and neck impact injury biomechanics. He is also interested in translational research innovation overseeing programs to advance faculty research to market.
Wanda Krassowska Neu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Electroporation-mediated drug delivery and gene therapy; Control of cardiac arrhythmias using nonlinear dynamics
Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale
James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent 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 ultrasound, and performing...
Mark L. Palmeri
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Palmeri's research interests include 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...
Nimmi Ramanujam
Robert W. Carr, Jr., 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 optically based...
Amanda Randles
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Randle's research in biomedical simulation and high performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that she uses to provide insight into the localization and development of human diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to cancer.
William M. Reichert
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Reichert's research interests include biosensors, protein mediated cell adhesion, and wound healing.
Ann Saterbak
Visiting 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.
Xiling Shen
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Shen's research integrates systems biology and implantable devices to study non-coding RNA, colon cancer, stem cells, and the enteric nervous system. His multidisciplinary approach provides a new window for developing novel therapeutics against heterogeneous diseases such as cancer.
Stephen William Smith
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Current research interests are the 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...
Marc A. Sommer
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Marc Sommer studies neuronal circuits of the brain. Research in his laboratory involves 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...
Michael Raphael Tadross
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Neural circuits and their dysfunction.
Gregg E. Trahey
Robert Plonsey Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Trahey's research interests include 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 Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Truskey's research interests include cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
Shyni Varghese
Professor of Biomedical Engineering (beginning July 1, 2017)
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology.
Jonathan Viventi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Viventi's research uses 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 Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Vo-Dinh's research activities and interests involve biophotonics, laser-excited luminescence spectroscopy, room temperature phosphorimetry, synchronous luminescence spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, field environmental instrumentation, fiberoptics sensors, nanosensors, biosensors...
Olaf T. Von Ramm
Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. von Ramm's research interests include diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, IR imaging, medical instrumentation and their new applications.
Adam P. Wax
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Wax's research interests include optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
Jennifer L West
Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: West's research in biomaterials, nanotechnology and tissue engineering involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel biofunctional materials, and the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems.
Patrick D. Wolf
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Wolf's research is primarily in the area of 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...
Junjie Yao
Assistant 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
Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. You's research interest focus on computational systems biology & synthetic biology, including mathematical modeling of cellular networks; mechanisms of information processing by gene networks; design, modeling and construction of robust gene networks for applications in engineering and...
Fan Yuan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Yuan's research interests include drug and gene delivery, mechanisms of molecular transport in cells and tissues, and tumor pathophysiology.
Secondary Faculty
Cristian Tudorel Badea
Associate Professor in Radiology
Research Interests: The physics and biomedical applications of computed tomography (CT), micro-CT, tomosynthesis, fluorecence tomography and image reconstruction algorithms.
Jeffrey Beck
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests: Jeffrey Beck studies neural coding and computation from a theoretical perspective, with particular emphasis on probabilistic reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, complex behavioral modeling, computational models of cortical circuits and circuit function, dynamics of spiking neural...
Leslie M. Collins
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Leslie M. Collins' research interests include physics-based statistical signal processing, subsurface sensing, auditory prostheses and pattern recognition.
Lawrence Anthony David
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Research Interests: To understand, predict, and manipulate how human microbiota behave over time. We are particularly interested in how these human-associated microbial communities resist and respond to perturbation.
Mark Wesley Dewhirst
Gustavo S. Montana Professor of Radiation Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Research Interests: Dr. Dewhirst's research interests focus on the tumor microenvironment and how it influences treatment responses. Areas of particular focus are hypoxia, acidosis, angiogenesis and oxidative stress.
Bastiaan Driehuys
Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: Driehuys' laboratory focuses on the development and application of hyperpolarized gas MRI for non-invasive imaging of pulmonary function and spectroscopic evaluation of pathology. We seek to improve the care of patients with pulmonary disease by developing non-invasive, 3D imaging of pulmonary...
Greg D. Field
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests: Study of the retina, using multi-electrode arrays to record retina neuron activity in conjunction with transgenic mouse lines and chemogenetics to manipulate neural circuit function. Field's laboratory is working to understand the mechanisms of retinal degenerative conditions and is investigating...
Ken Gall
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Materials Science, Mechanical Properties, Metals and Polymers. Specialities: Shape Memory Materials, Biomaterials, 3D Printing.
Geoffrey Steven Ginsburg
Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Dr. Geoffrey S. Ginsburg's research interests are in the development of novel paradigms for developing and translating genomic information into medical practice and the integration of personalized medicine into health care.
Tony Jun Huang
Professor in the Department 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 Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: Dr. Johnson's research involves magnetic resonance histology (MRH), the application of MR microscopy to study tissue architecture. Using MRH for morphologic phenotyping in the mouse was first suggested by Dr. Johnson and his colleagues in this article (Radiology 2002;222:789-793 2002). A...
Bruce Klitzman
Associate Professor of Surgery
Research Interests: The primary basic science research interests of our laboratory are in the area of physiological mechanisms of maintaining substrate transport from blood to tissue. This broad topic covers studies on whole animals, such as rats and mice, as well as studies on whole organ, hemorheological,...
William Erle Kraus
Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: William Erle Kraus' training, expertise and research interests range from human integrative physiology and genetics to animal exercise models to cell culture models of skeletal muscle adaptation to mechanical stretch.
Anita T. Layton
Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: The application of mathematics to biological systems, specifically, mathematical modeling of renal physiology.
Chunlei Liu
Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: Chunlei Liu's research interests include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and its translational applications.
Joseph Yuan-Chieh Lo
Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: My lab investigates three areas in the advanced imaging of breast cancer: (1) digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis, (2) radiogenomics for improved management of breast cancer using computer vision and machine learning models, and (3) computational and physical breast phantoms to facilitate...
James R. MacFall
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Radiology
Research Interests: MacFall's research centers on application and/or development of image processing and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques for a variety of biomedical focus areas in psychiatry, oncology, lung disorders and pediatric neurological disorders.
Piotr E. Marszalek
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: The invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in 1986 by Binnig, Quate and Gerber (Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 930) started a revolution in many branches of science by realizing an unprecedented possibility to visualize and manipulate individual molecules under ambient conditions including water,...
Miguel Angelo L. Nicolelis
Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience
Research Interests: Dr. Nicolelis investigates how the brains of freely behaving animals encode sensory and motor information. He was first to propose and demonstrate that animals and human subjects can utilize their electrical brain activity to directly control neuroprosthetic devices via brain-machine interfaces (...
Angel Vladimirov Peterchev
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests: I direct the Brain Stimulation Engineering Lab (BSEL) which focuses on the development and modeling of devices and application paradigms for transcranial brain stimulation. Transcranial brain stimulation involves non-invasive delivery of fields (e.g., electric and magnetic) to the brain that...
Timothy E Reddy
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Research Interests: Understanding how genetic variation that alters gene regulation contributes to human traits, including risk for common diseases such as diabetes. The Reddy Lab uses an interdisciplinary combination of high-throughput genomics, computational biology, and traditional molecular biology and genetics...
Ehsan Samei
Professor of Radiology
Research Interests: Methods to develop image quality and dose metrics that are clinically relevant and that can be used to design and utilize advanced imaging techniques towards precise interpretive and quantitative performance.
John Howard Sampson
Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine
Guillermo Sapiro
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School 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 differential...
William Paul Segars
Associate Professor in Radiology
Research Interests: Computer-generated phantoms and simulation techniques to investigate and optimize medical imaging systems and methods; development of computational models of patients and imaging devices.
Allen Wuming Song
Professor in Radiology
Research Interests: Song's research program is centered on high-resolution MRI methodological development to best depict and detect human brain structure and function.
W Daniel Stamer
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Interests: The Mechanobiology of Ocular Hypertension in Glaucoma: My laboratory studies the disease of glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness in the United States, affecting nearly 3 million people (70 million Worldwide). The primary risk factor for developing glaucoma is ocular hypertension (high...
Michael J. Therien
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Michael J. Therien's research involves the synthesis of compounds, supramolecular assemblies, nano-scale objects, and electronic materials with unusual ground-and excited-state characteristics, and interrogating these structures using state-of-the-art transient optical, spectroscopic,...
Cynthia Ann Toth
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Interests: Translational research and early-application clinical trials with a focus on novel retinal imaging with spectral domain and swept source optical coherence tomography (SD and SSOCT)
Warren S. Warren
James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Our work focuses on the design and application of what might best be called novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter dynamics. The heart of the work is chemical physics, and most of what we do is ultrafast laser spectroscopy or nuclear magnetic resonance. It generally...
Kris Cameron Wood
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Research Interests: More effective anticancer therapeutic strategies, many of which are based on functional genomics. Examples of projects include: a miniaturized screening platform, tools to systematically map the signaling pathways controlling anticancer drug responses, high-throughput computational methods to...
Christopher Wildrick Woods
Professor of Medicine
Research Interests: Wood's research interests include: emerging infections, global health, epidemiology of infectious diseases, clinical microbiology and diagnostics, bioterrorism preparedness, surveillance for communicable diseases, and antimicrobial resistance.
Benjamin Yellen
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Benjamin Yellen is interested in developing highly parallel mechanisms for controlling the transport and assembly of ensembles of objects ranging from micron-sized colloidal particles to single cells.
Michael Rod Zalutsky
Jonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Research Interests: The development of novel radioactive compounds for improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Stefan Zauscher
Sternberg Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering & 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 and atomic force...
Pei Zhong
Anderson-Rupp Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Ultrasound-targeted gene delivery and activation; synergistic combination of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and immunotherapy for cancer treatment; innovations in shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) technology; and mechanics and bioeffects of acoustic cavitation.
Research Faculty
Cameron R. Bass
Associate Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Bass's research interests include the 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.
Paolo F Maccarini
Assistant Research Professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: By merging advanced circuit/antenna design with multiphysics modeling, Dr. Maccarini pioneered low-cost passive sensors to noninvasively measure deep temperature for various diagnostic applications. By combining novel engineering solutions with immunotherapy/thermo-drugs, his collaborative efforts...
Nassir Mokarram-Dorri
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Immunomodulation for nervous system repair; medical devices for brain tumor therapy; biomaterials for tissue engineering.
Roger W Nightingale
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Nightingale's current research interests include: crash test dummies, pediatric head and neck injury, the biomechanics of trauma, modeling of the human head and cervical spine, and the mechanical characterization of head and neck tissues.
Lisa L Satterwhite
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Satterwhite studies the genomics and epigenetics of environmental exposures in populations with clear health disparity. Her group identified the first genomic signature for pesticide exposure and is developing simple blood tests to diagnose early stage asymptomatic neurodegenerative disease and...
Adjunct Faculty
Chien-Tsun Kuan
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology
Research Interests: Chien-Tsun Kuan's research is focused upon exploiting engineered antibody fragments to treat brain tumors by targeting to glioma-associated, oncofetal epitopes such as tenascin, glioma variant epidermal growth factor variant III (EGFRvIII), medulloblastoma-associated developmental markers, as well...
Kam Leong
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Leong's research interest focuses on biomaterials design, particularly on synthesis of nanoparticles for DNA-based therapeutics, and nanostructured biomaterials for regenerative medicine.
Gabriel P. Lopez
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Prof. Lopez's professional interests lie in research and education in biomaterials science and engineering, bioanalytical chemistry and biointerfacial phenomena.
Lori A. Setton
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Research in Setton's laboratory is focused on the role of mechanical factors in the degeneration and repair of soft tissues of the musculoskeletal system, including the intervertebral disc, articular cartilage and meniscus.
Allan B. Shang
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: My current research interests include the investigation into current and experimental biosensors, including the use of lasers and photonic techniques to create the next generation of miniaturized biosensors and analytical devices. I am interested in biomedical devices of all types, including the...
Consulting Faculty
Blake Shaw Wilson
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery
Research Interests: Wilson is interested in the design of cochlear implants and other neural prostheses for restoration of sensory functions. The design includes considerations of processing in the brain (the receiver) as well as processing in the periphery (the transmitter).
Lecturers
Instructors
Kevin Michael Caves
Clinical Associate in the Department of Surgery
Research Interests: Kevin Caves researches technologies for people with disabilities. Recent projects include the development of brain computer interface (BCI) technologies, the use of sensors to assist older people and individuals with disabilities live more independently and safely at home, and telerehabilitation...
Emeritus Faculty
Morton Friedman
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dr. Friedman's research interests focus on the role of mechanical forces in the localization and evolution of vascular disease, particularly atherosclerosis. Specific areas of research are the influence of adaptation on vascular biology and physiology, the influence of shear stress gradients and...