Faculty & Staff Directory

University Distinguished Professor, 

Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies

Associate Professor, 

cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology

Associate Professor, 

Drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Single-cell optogenetics for the induction of gene expression and selection of individual Escherichia coli cells; control and characterization of temporal dynamics and cell-to-cell heterogeneity of gene regulatory networks in E. coli

Associate Professor, 

Cell type-specific genetics of neuroregeneration, Long-term longitudinal imaging at subcellular resolution, High-speed and low-cost confocal imaging

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor, 

3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering

Associate Professor, 

Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction

Assistant Professor, 

advanced microscopy and spatial single-cell technologies to decode cell fate regulation and uncover novel therapeutic strategies

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, 

Assistant Professor, 

Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology

Professor and Chair, 

Design and use of biomaterials for wound healing; antimicrobial/antibiofilm strategies; soft-tissue replacement; polymer condensates; and sustained delivery of therapeutics

Assistant Professor, 

Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development

Professor, 

Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Assistant Professor, 

Computationally modeling the molecular interactions of the human pulmonary surfactant system, with a focus on collectins and their role in innate immune recognition

Associate Dean of PhD Education, 

Biomedical optics and non-invasive imaging, rare cell detection and tracking in the body, ultrafast time-domain diffuse optical imaging, image reconstruction and biomedical signal processing

Associate Professor, 

We study cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions in the airway to understand the fundamental mechanisms that regulate airway caliber and why they fail in diseases like asthma.

Associate Professor, 

Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly

Teaching Professor, 

Cancer detection and drug discovery technologies

Assistant Professor, 

Focused Ultrasound, Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation, Ultrasound Imaging, Neuroimaging, Drug Delivery, Gliomblastoma, Alzheimer’s Disease

Assistant Professor, 

Cell and nucleus mechanobiology, soft bioelectronics for organoid/tissue scale mechanobiology and regenerative engineering, mechanotransduction, implantable bioelectronics

Professor, 

Our group investigates biomolecules at the single-molecule level. We develop nanopore-based and other nanotechnology-based methods for probing the structure and dynamic behavior of biomolecules. We employ optical waveguides and single-molecule enzymatic approaches for RNA sequencing, and utilize engineered nanopore sensors for applications in single-molecule proteomics. We are experimentalists, but we also use advanced computational tools to perform big data analysis.

Professor and Chairperson, 

Mechanobiology of neural systems; Systems for nerve regeneration; Inclusive workforce development