Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Dr. Samei’s scientific expertise include x-ray imaging, theoretical imaging models, simulation methods, and experimental techniques in medical image formation, quantification, and perception. His research aims…
Director, First-Year Design Program, Professor of the Practice in the Department of BME
Innovations in undergraduate engineering education, particularly new pedagogical methods that broaden students’ problem solving skills and design thinking.
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…
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…
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…
Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
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…
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
Robert Plonsey Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Medical ultrasound, image guided surgery, adaptive imaging, imaging of tissue's mechanical properties, and radiation force imaging.
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
Clinical trials in Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, translational research in Parkinson disease, tremor, stroke, and preclinical studies on Alzheimer's disease models, stroke, metabolism, and cerebral…
Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Systems biology, synthetic biology, computational modeling, microbiomes, host-microbiome interactions, microbial metabolism
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…
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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…
Diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, IR imaging, medical instrumentation and their new applications.
Optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
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.…
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies, and translating PAT advances into diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially in functional brain imaging and early cancer theranostics.
James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome
Principles and mechanisms of delivery for drugs, genes, and vaccines; pharmacokinetics; electrotransfer or electroporation technology; and tumor pathophysiology.
Jonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Jonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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…
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…
