BME

Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering

Therapeutic Biomaterials

Biomedical optics, specifically spectroscopic diagnostic techniques

Biosensors, biomedical MEMs, medical devices, the auditory system, and treatment of auditory dysfunction

Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy, novel in vivo imaging and measurement techniques, tumor biology, angiogenesis

Auditory Neuroscience; neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids.

Vascular disease with an emphasis on minimally invasive treatment of lower extremity atherosclerosis

Effects of strain on pulmonary epithelium

Diffuse optics for in vivo cancer detection, diagnosis and therapy monitoring

mathematical modeling of epidemics, and the mathematical modeling of infection dynamics in a host

Dynamic systems, measurement and control, and the exploration of single-molecule mechanics

The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception.

Biomedical ultrasound, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound.

Auditory neurophysiology, neural circuitry and information processing, and computational neuroscience.

Gene Therapy

Visual neuroscience; multi-sensory integration; neural coding; linking neurons to perception

Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin

Photoacoustic imaging for medical diagnosis, Application of High resolution ultrasound for Bladder tumor detection and follow-up. High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for hemostasis.

Tissue characterization, inverse problems, breast imaging, elastography, cardiovascular disease, molecular imaging, ultrasound, and MRI

Semiconductor materials and device physics, materials sciences, biomedical engineering, and optics.

Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer and Microbial Infections

Neural control of coordinated movements

Mechanosignaling by vascular endothelial cells

Vestibular neurophysiology: sensory neural control underlying the coordination of postural movements

Role of cell-cell contact in regulating cellular function in both the normal and disease state

general area of solid mechanics, more specifically in wave propagation and vibrations in elastic media

Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix

Mechanisms of light-induced retinal damage and development of non-invasive fluorescence imaging techniques

Computational biomedical imaging, signal and image processing, magnetic resonance imaging, near infrared spectroscopic imaging

Orthopaedic biomechanics, bone growth and development, cartilage mechanics, medical image-based finite element modeling, knee biomechanics

Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins

Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels

Psychoneuroimmunology

Development of Novel, Clinically Applicable Ultrasound Imaging Techniques

Cell Motility, and Quantitative light microscopy

Dentistry

Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing

Design of endoscopic instruments for the visible and the infrared; optical metrology

The development of realistic models of the interaction of ultrasound with inhomogeneous media and to construct measurement systems based on quantifiable ultrasonic parameters

Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells, cell mechanics

Neurosurgery

Research Radiology, CT Physics, Medical Imaging Systems

The application of optical science and technology to the study of nanoscale phenomena

Visual, vestibular, and adaptive control of spatial orientation and balance

Medical imaging, digital imaging, halftoning, and novel scanning techniques using Doppler shift effects

Optical imaging approaches and technology development for cancer biology, immunology, and neuroscience

Computational solid and structural mechanics and in the development of engineering practices in Classical Antiquity

Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Skeletal System

Optical instrumentation, system engineering, optical coherence tomography

Ultrasound sonoelasticity; 3-dimensional imaging; contrast agents

Vascular cell communication and signaling

Radiation Oncology

Neural Control of Individuated Finger Movements

Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration

Control of Breathing

Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins

Vision science, advanced ophthalmic technologies

Intelligent image acquisition and analysis systems in biomedicine

Biochemical Engineering, Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology

Customized vision correction using advanced optical techniques such as wavefront sensor, customized optics and laser refractive surgery

Modeling and measuring the coherence properties of returned light through biomedical imaging, material science, remote sensing

Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging