Directory

NAE Member

Blake Shaw Wilson

blake.wilson@duke.edu

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences

Gavin Wiltshire

gavin.wiltshire@duke.edu

Associate In Research

Patrick D. Wolf

patrick.wolf@duke.edu

Associate Professor Emeritus 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.…

Tianyu Wu

tianyu.wu@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Yan Xiang, Ph.D.

yan.xiang@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Yue Xu, Ph.D.

yue.xu2@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Yankun Xu, Ph.D.

yankun.xu@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Huanghe Yang

huanghe.yang@duke.edu

Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Junjie Yao, Ph.D.

junjie.yao@duke.edu

Jeffrey N. Vinik 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.

Jie Yin

jie.yin@duke.edu

Grants & Contracts Administrator

Aaron Yip, Ph.D.

aaron.yip@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Lingchong You, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests

Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome

Zachary Young

zachary.young@duke.edu

Associate In Research

Fan Yuan, Ph.D.

fyuan@duke.edu

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests

Principles and mechanisms of delivery for drugs, genes, and vaccines; pharmacokinetics; electrotransfer or electroporation technology; and tumor pathophysiology.

Michael Rod Zalutsky

zalut001@mc.duke.edu

Jonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine

Stefan Zauscher, Ph.D.

zauscher@duke.edu

Director of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of MEMS

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…

Renzhi Zhan, Ph.D.

zhan0001@duke.edu

Research Scientist

Jiuba Zhang

zhang.jiuba@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Yi Zhang

yi.zhang@duke.edu

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests

Machine Learning / AI Method Development for OmicsWe develop computational methods leveraging interpretable machine learning / AI models, large-scale single-cell genomics data, cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics,…

Pei Zhong, Ph.D.

pzhong@duke.edu

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…

Yining Zhu, Ph.D.

yining.zhu@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate

Ching Zhu

ching.zhu@duke.edu

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests

Zhu Lab WebsiteNeuronal Control of Cardiac ElectrophysiologySudden arrhythmic death is a leading cause of mortality worldwide.  My laboratory utilizes cutting-edge neuroscience techniques to study the…

Michael Zimet, Ph.D.

michael.zimet@duke.edu

Postdoctoral Associate