Pei-Yu Chiou, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2005)
Optofluidics systems
Mark S. Cohen, PhD (Rockefeller, 1985)
Rapid methods of MR imaging, fusion of electrophysiology and fMRI, advanced approaches to MR data analysis, ultra-low field MRI using SQUID detection, low energy focused ultrasound for neurostimulation
Linda L. Demer, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins, 1983)
Vascular biology, biomineralization, vascular calcification, mesenchymal stem cells
Timothy J. Deming, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1993)
Polymer synthesis, polymer processing, supramolecular materials, organometallic catalysis, biomimetic materials, polypeptides
Dino Di Carlo, PhD (UC Berkeley, 2006)
Microfluidics, biomedical microdevices, cellular diagnostics, cell analysis and engineering
Elisa Franco, PhD (U. Trieste, Italy, 2007)
Convergence of structural biology, dynamics and controls using specialized biomolecular frameworks
Tzung K. Hsiai, MD (U. Chicago, 1993), PhD (UCLA, 2001)
Cardiovascular mechanotransduction, MEMS and nanosensors, vascular endothelial dynamics, molecular imaging of atherosclerotic lesions, reactive nitrogen species (RNS) and reactive oxygen species (ROS)
Daniel T. Kamei, PhD (MIT, 2001)
Molecular cell bioengineering, rational design of molecular therapeutics, systems-level analyses of cellular processes, drug delivery, diagnostics
Andrea M. Kasko, PhD (U. Akron, 2004)
Polymer synthesis, biomaterials, tissue engineering, cell-material interactions
H. Pirouz Kavehpour, PhD (MIT, 2003)
Microscale fluid mechanics, transport phenomena in biological systems, physics of contact line phenomena, complex fluids, non-isothermal flows, micro- and nano-heat guides, microtribology
Chang-Jin (CJ) Kim, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1991)
Microelectromechanical systems: micro- and nanofabrication technologies, structures, actuators, devices, and systems; microfluidics involving surface tension (especially droplets)
Debiao Li, PhD (U. Virginia, 1992)
Development and clinical application of fast MR imaging techniques for the evaluation of the cardiovascular system
Song Li, PhD (UC San Diego, 1997)
Stem cell engineering, tissue engineering and vascular remodeling, mechanobiology/mechanotransduction
Wentai Liu, PhD (U. Michigan, 1983)
Neural engineering
Arash Naeim, MD (UCLA, 1995), PhD (RAND Graduate School, 2002)
Remote monitoring, wearable sensors, big data analytics, clinical informatics, health care analytics
Aydogan Ozcan, PhD (Stanford, 2005)
Photonics, nano- and biotechnology
Jacob Rosen, PhD (Tel Aviv U., Israel, 1997)
Natural integration of a human arm/powered exoskeleton system
Jacob J. Schmidt, PhD (U. Minnesota, 1999)
Bioengineering and biophysics at micro and nanoscales, membrane protein engineering, biological-inorganic hybrid devices
Vivek Shetty, DDS, DrMedDent (U. Regensburg, Germany, 1992)
Mobile health, biosensors, salivary diagnostics, value-based health care
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD (U. Madras, India, 1990), PhD (UCLA, 1999)
Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias in humans, complex catheter ablation, medical technology for cardiovascular therapeutics
Maie A. St. John, MD, PhD (Yale, 1999)
Novel diagnostic and treatment modalities for head and neck cancer
Yi Tang, PhD (Caltech, 2002)
Biosynthesis of proteins/polypeptides with unnatural amino acids, synthesis of novel anti-biotics/antitumor products
Michael A. Teitell, MD (UCLA, 1993), PhD (UCLA, 1991)
Immune system development and cancer; regulation of gene expression in development and malignancy; linking RNA processing with mitochondrial homeostasis, metabolism and proliferation; nanoscale evaluation of malignant transformation
Cun-Yu Wang, DDS (Peking U., China, 1989), PhD (U. North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1998)
Molecular signaling (NF-KB and Wnt) tumor-invasive growth and metastasis, adult mesenchymal stem cells, dental stem cells and regenerative medicine, inflammation and innate immunity
Paul S. Weiss, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1986)
Atomic-scale surface chemistry and physics, molecular devices, nanolithography, biophysics and neuroscience, nanometer-scale electronics and storage, surface interactions, surface motion, dynamics, and direct manipulation, extending capabilities of scanning tunneling microscope, molecular-scale control and measurement of composition and properties in membranes
Gerald C.L. Wong, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1994)
Antimicrobials and antibiotic-resistant pathogens, bacterial communities, cystic fibrosis, apoptosis proteins and cancer therapeutics, disinfection and water purification, self-assembly in biology and biotechnology, physical chemistry of solvation, soft condensed matter physics, biophysics
Yang Yang, PhD (U. Massachusetts Lowell, 1992)
Conjugated polymers and applications in optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes, photodiodes, and field-effect transistors
Chih-Ming Ho, PhD (Johns Hopkins, 1974)
Molecular fluidic phenomena, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), bionano technologies, biomolecular sensor arrays, control of cellular complex systems, rapid search of combinatorial medicine
Edward R.B. McCabe, PhD (USC, 1972), MD (USC, 1974)
Stem cell identification, regenerative medicine, systems biology
Benjamin M. Wu, DDS (U. Pacific, 1987), PhD (MIT, 1997)
Biomaterials, cell-material interactions, materials processing, tissue engineering, prosthetic and regenerative dentistry
Corey W. Arnold, PhD (UCLA, 2009)
Computational medical imaging, machine learning, quantitative phenotyping, disease prediction, graphical modeling, natural language processing, data visualization
Liang Gao, PhD (Rice, 2011)
Biomedical optics, tissue imaging, ultra-fast optics, hyperspectral imaging
Weizhe Hong, PhD (Stanford, 2012)
Neural and computational mechanisms of social behavior, neural computation and modeling, machine learning
William Hsu, PhD (UCLA, 2009)
Deep and reinforcement learning, data integration, clinical data science, imaging informatics
Shantanu H. Joshi, PhD (Florida State, 2007)
Shape data analysis, MRI analysis (functional MRI, Diffusion MRI) modeling methods
Aaron S. Meyer, PhD (MIT, 2014)
Molecular cell bioengineering, systems-level cellular signaling analysis, model-driven analysis and design, cancer and innate immune signaling
Dan Ruan, PhD (U. Michigan Ann Arbor, 2008)
Signal and image processing, system modeling and optimization, time series, data science and informatics
Jun Chen, PhD (Georgia Tech, 2016)
Biomaterials, biomedical devices, wearable bioelectronics, smart textiles, nanogenerator, body area network
Tyler R. Clites, PhD (MIT, 2018); joint program certificate, Harvard Medical-MIT (2018)
Bionic systems to rehabilitate and augment human function; movement biomechanics; neural interfacing and control; advancements in orthopaedic and plastic surgery
Mireille Kamariza, PhD (Stanford, 2019)
Molecular engineering, biosensor designs, RNA & CRISPR technologies, chemical mycobacteriology
Neil Y.C. Lin, PhD (Cornell, 2016)
Soft tissue mechanics, mechanobiology, tissue morphogenesis, cell engineering
Jaimie Marie Stewart, PhD (UC Riverside, 2018)
Design and synthesis of RNA nano- and microstructures, RNA nanotechnology, RNA therapeutics, nucleic acid nanotechnology, bioactive RNA assemblies, biomolecular sensors, nucleic acid self-assembly
Jennifer L. Wilson, PhD (MIT, 2016)
Drug target prioritization using downstream protein effects
Holden H. Wu, PhD (Stanford, 2009)
Signal and image processing, magnetic resonance imaging, MRI-guided interventions, nanotheranostics
Sophia N. Barbarie, PhD (UCLA, 2006)
Orthopedic biomechanics
Zhen Gu, PhD (UCLA, 2010)
Drug delivery, biomaterials, cell therapy, micro- and nanobiotechnology
Stephanie K. Seidlits, PhD (U. Texas Austin, 2010)
Neural tissue engineering, spinal cord injury, gene therapy, hydrogels, cell-material interactions, high-throughput biological techniques, nervous system extracellular matrix, neural stem cells and development
Bill J. Tawil, MBA (California Lutheran, 2006), PhD (McGill, 1992)
Skin tissue engineering, bone tissue engineering, vascular tissue engineering, wound healing
Chase Linsley, PhD (UCLA, 2015)
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery, additive manufacturing
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