Faculty Member

Scientific Interests

Hani Awad, PhD

Cell and Tissue Engineering, Physicochemical Regulation of Engineered Cartilage Using Bioreactors

Andrew Berger, PhD

Diagnostic, spectroscopic analysis of tissue, blood samples, and living subjects

Edward Brown, PhD

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

Patricia Chess, MD

Effects of mechanical strain on pulmonary epithelium and lung growth, development, and injury

Alfred Clark, Jr, PhD

Mathematical modeling of oxygen transport and infectious diseases

Diane Dalecki, PhD

Biomedical ultrasound, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound

Kevin Davis, PhD

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

Lisa DeLouise, PhD

Biomaterials and Biconjugate Surface Chemistry,  Porous Silicon Optical Biosensors and Nanophotonics, Bioengineered Skin Substitutes and Wound Healing,  Diffusion and Transdermal Drug Delivery

Philippe M. Fauchet, PhD

Optoelectronic and photonic materials and devices with particular emphasis on developing applications of novel technology for improving health care and reducing its cost

Bruce M. Fenton, PhD

Tumor Vascular Structure, Oxygenation, and Radiosensitivity

Edward G. Freedman, PhD

Neural control of coordinated movements, particularly eye-head coordination and gaze shifts

Keigi Fujiwara, PhD

                                                      Mechanosignaling by vascular endothelial cells

Robert D. Frisina, PhD

Neural processing of speech sounds in young and aged

Gregory Gdowski, PhD

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

Sheryl M. Gracewski, PhD

Methods of stone fragmentation during clinical lithotripsy; cavitation in response to ultrasound pulses

Denise C. Hocking, PhD

Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix

Jeff Houck, PhD

Biomechanics of movement

Michael R. King, PhD

Dynamics of leukocyte and platelet adhesion, Computational biofluid mechanics

Nicholas N. Kuzma

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy with Hyperpolarized Biomarkers

Amy L. Lerner, PhD,

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

Anne E. Luebke, PhD

Olivocochlear efferent system function and inner ear gene transfer

Stephen A. McAleavey, PhD

Instrumentation, Signal Processing, Ultrasound Imaging, Motion Tracking, elasticity imaging methods, ultrasound echo models, Ultrasound Imaging Systems

James L. McGrath, PhD

Vascular Cell Biophysics, Bionanotechnology, Cell Motility, and Quantitative light microscopy

Benjamin Miller, PhD,

Biosensors, Nanotechnology, Bioorganic Chemistry

Duncan T. Moore, PhD

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

Jack G. Mottley, PhD

Biomedical applications of ultrasound, including ultrasonic tissue characterization and contrast agents

Ruola Ning, PhD

Three-dimensional medical imaging, including image processing and feature-detection techniques applied to clinical image acquisition modalities

Lucas Novotny, PhD

Exploring ways to surpass the diffraction limit of classical optics, studying the interaction of nanometric systems such as quantum dots or biological proteins with the optical near-field

Walter G. O'Dell, PhD

4D cardiac motion analysis and gated shaped-beam radiosurgery

Gary D. Paige, MD, PhD

Multi-sensory interactions and plasticity in maintaining behavioral and perceptual spatial orientation

Kevin J. Parker, PhD

Medical imaging, medical ultrasound, elasticity imaging, Doppler imaging, image processing

Renato Perucchio, PhD, D Engr

Finite element biomechanical modeling of the embryonic heart, computational geometric modeling from biological data, large scale computation

David J. Pinto, PhD

Cells & Synapses, Neurobiology of Disease, Sensory Systems & Perception, Theoretical & Computational

J. Edward Puzas, PhD

Molecular and cellular biology of bone

Wael Saad, MD

Vascular / Interventional Radiology

Ingrid H. Sarelius, PhD

Vascular cell communication and microvascular function

Michael Schell, PhD

Radiation delivery to localized lesions in the brain (stereotactic radiosurgery and 3D planning) and the heart (intravascular brachytherapy)

Edward Schwarz, PhD

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

Scott H. Seidman, PhD

Neural control and mathematical modeling of reflex eye movements, physiological control systems

Denham S. Ward, MD, PhD

Systems modeling of respiratory processes

Richard E. Waugh, PhD

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

David R. Williams, PhD

Physiological optics, visual instrumentation and retinal imaging, color and spatial vision

J.H. David Wu, PhD

Bone marrow tissue engineering and microenvironment studies; lymphocyte culture; molecular and biochemical engineering

Geunyoung Yoon, PhD

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

Wojciech Zareba, M.D, PhD

Biosignal processing and instrumentation related to Cardiology

James Zavislan, PhD  

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

Jianhui Zhong, PhD

Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging