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First-year engineering education, with a focus on design
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Protein engineering, computational biology, technology development
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Polymer theory and computer simulations
Ehsan Samei
Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology
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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…
Ann Saterbak
ann.saterbak@duke.eduDirector, First-Year Design Program, Professor of the Practice in the Department of BME
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Innovations in undergraduate engineering education, particularly new pedagogical methods that broaden students’ problem solving skills and design thinking.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Super-resolution ultrasound imaging; ultrafast 3D ultrasound imaging; deep learning applications in ultrasound imaging; ultrasound shear wave elastography.
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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…
Cynthia Ann Toth
cynthia.toth@duke.eduJoseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
Gregg Trahey, Ph.D.
gregg.trahey@duke.eduRobert Plonsey Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Medical ultrasound, image guided surgery, adaptive imaging, imaging of tissue's mechanical properties, and radiation force imaging.
George Truskey, Ph.D.
george.truskey@duke.eduR. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
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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…
Shyni Varghese
shyni.varghese@duke.eduLaszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology
Dr Ophelia Venturelli, Ph.D.
ophelia.venturelli@duke.eduAssociate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Systems biology, synthetic biology, computational modeling, microbiomes, host-microbiome interactions, microbial metabolism
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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…
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Ph.D.
tuan.vodinh@duke.eduR. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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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…
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Diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, IR imaging, medical instrumentation and their new applications.
Steve Wallace
steve.wallace@duke.eduSenior Lecturing Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
Blake Shaw Wilson
blake.wilson@duke.eduAdjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
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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.…
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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies, and translating PAT advances into diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially in functional brain imaging and early cancer theranostics.
Lingchong You, Ph.D.
James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome
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Principles and mechanisms of delivery for drugs, genes, and vaccines; pharmacokinetics; electrotransfer or electroporation technology; and tumor pathophysiology.
Michael Rod Zalutsky
zalut001@mc.duke.eduJonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Stefan Zauscher, Ph.D.
zauscher@duke.eduDirector of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of MEMS
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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…
Pei Zhong, Ph.D.
pzhong@duke.eduProfessor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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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…