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Taner Akkin Associate Professor	Biomedical optics, imaging	Office: 6-130 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-8783 Email: akkin@umn.edu
Patrick Alford Assistant Professor	Soft Tissue Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Traumatic Injury, Morphogenesis	Office: 6-136 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-4801 Email: pwalford@umn.edu
Shai Ashkenazi Assistant Professor	Bioimaging, instrumentation	Office: 6-126 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-6107 Email: ashke003@umn.edu
Victor Barocas Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	Computational biomechanics and transport	Office: 7-115 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-5572 Email: baroc001@umn.edu
John Bischof Professor	Bioheat and mass transfer, thermophysics and biophysics, thermal injury, cryopreservation	Office: 200 Mechanical Eng Phone: 612-625-5513 Email: bischof@umn.edu Primary appointment is Mechanical Eng.
Bin He Professor	Biomedical imaging, neuroengineering, bioinstrumentation, biomodeling	Office: 6-124 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-1115 Email: binhe@umn.edu
Brian Herman Professor, Vice President for Research	Cell death, optical imaging technologies	Office: 419 Johnston Hall Phone: 612-624-5054 Email: herman@umn.edu Office of the Vice President for Research
Matthew Johnson Assistant Professor	Neural engineering, computational modeling, neurophysiology	Office: 6-134 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-6492 Email: john5101@umn.edu
Hugh Lim Assistant Professor	Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience, neural plasticity	Office: 6-132 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-4565 Email: hlim@umn.edu
Tay Netoff Associate Professor	Neuroscience, study of epilepsy	Office: 6-122 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-3618 Email: tnetoff@umn.edu
David Odde Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies	Cellular and molecular bioengineering in cancer	Office: 7-132 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-9980 Email: oddex002@umn.edu
Brenda Ogle Associate Professor	Cardiovascular tissue engineering, stem cell bioengineering, cell-matrix interactions, microfluidic cytometry	Office: Phone: Email: ogle0008@umn.edu
Paolo Provenzano Assistant Professor	Quantitative cancer biology, cell-matrix interactions, signal transduction, mechanotransduction, advanced optical imaging/bio-photonics	Office: 7-120 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-3279 Email: pprovenz@umn.edu
Jonathan Sachs Associate Professor	Cellular membrane structure, biophysics	Office: 7-126 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-7158 Email: jnsachs@umn.edu
Wei Shen Associate Professor	Biomaterials, cellular microenvironments, cell-environment interactions, biomolecular engineering	Office: 7-118 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-3771 Email: shenx104@umn.edu
Ronald Siegel Professor	Drug delivery, hydrogels, MEMS	Office: 9-127E Weaver-Densford Hall Phone: 612-624-6164 Email: siege017@umn.edu Primary appointment is Pharmaceutics
Alena Talkachova Assistant Professor	Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, numerical modeling	Office: 6-128 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-2719 Email: talkacal@umn.edu
Bob Tranquillo Professor Department Head	Cardiovascular tissue engineering	Office: 7-114 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-6868 Email: tranquillo@umn.edu
Chun Wang Associate Professor	Biomaterials, drug and gene delivery, tissue engineering	Office: 7-116 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-3990 Email: wangx504@umn.edu
David Wood Assistant Professor	Microfluidics, bioMEMS, disease-on-a-chip, diagnostics	Office: 7-110 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-1438 Email: dkwood@umn.edu

Marie Johnson	BMEn 4001W and 4002W - Senior Design I and II for Biomedical Engineers	Email: mariej@aumcardiovascular.com
Bruce KenKnight	BMEn 4001W and 4002W - Senior Design I and II for Biomedical Engineers	Email: kenknight.bruce@gmail.com
Mark Kroll	Medical Devices Emphasis Area Advisor; BMEn 4001W and 4002W - Senior Design I and II for Biomedical Engineers	Email: mark@kroll.name
Steven Saliterman	BMEn 5151 - Intro to BioMEMs	Email: drsteve@umn.edu

To see Graduate Faculty listed by research area, please visit our Research section.

Faculty Member	Primary Department	Research Topics
Taner Akkin	Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical optics and imaging
Alptekin Aksan	Mechanical Engineering	Biostabilization and biopreservation
Patrick Alford	Biomedical Engineering	Soft tissue biomechanics, tissue engineering, traumatic injury, morphogenesis
Edgar Arriaga	Chemistry	Characterization of subcellular environments, single cell studies, BioMEMS
James Ashe	Neurology	Neural control of behavior including basic motor function, motor learning, sequence production, and decision making
Shai Ashkenazi	Biomedical Engineering	Bioimaging, instrumentation
Kenneth Baker	Neurology	Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, stroke, addiction
Roberto Ballarini	Civil Engineering	Biomechanics
Alan Bank*	Medicine	Arterial elastic mechanics, biomechanics of atherosclerotic plaque rupture, congestive heart failure, endothelial function
Victor Barocas	Biomedical Engineering	Soft tissue biomechanics, biotransport
Joanie Bechtold*	Orthopaedic Surgery	Biomechanics of osteoarthritis, fracture stabilization and joint replacement
John Bischof	Mechanical Engineering	Bioheat and mass transfer, thermophysics and biophysics, thermal injury, cryopreservation
Patrick Bolan*	Radiology	MRI/MRS techniques for cancer detection and therapy response
Michael Bowser	Chemistry	Bioanalysis, microfluidics, neurochemistry, in vitro selection
Matthew Chafee*	Neuroscience	Neural basis of spatial cognition and working memory, cortical system dysfunction in psychiatric disease
Wei Chen	Radiology	Study of brain metabolism and function using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) technologies
Michel Cramer-Bornemann*	Neurology	Sleep disorders medicine
Tianhong Cui	Mechanical Engineering	MEMS/NEMS, micro- and nanomanufacturing, flexible electronics
Afshin Divani	Neurosurgery	Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke, spinal cord injury, endovascular/implantable devices, medical signal and image processing, traumatic brain injury
Kevin Dorfman	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	Microfluidic electrophoresis of DNA and other biomolecules, biophysics of structured nucleic acids
Will Durfee	Mechanical Engineering	Biomechanics and neuromuscular physiology of human movement, electrical stimulation of paralyzed muscles to return function to the spinal cord injured, product design
Emad Ebbini	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Ultrasonic signal processing, image-guided therapeutic systems, real-time 3D ultrasonic imaging, diffraction tomography and inverse problems, phased-array pattern synthesis, imaging through inhomogeneities
Timothy Ebner	Neuroscience	Cerebellum and motor cortex control of limb movements, optical imaging of the brain
Art Erdman	Mechanical Engineering	Medical device and product design, MEMS devices in medicine
Stan Finkelstein	Lab Medicine and Pathology	Instrumentation, medical computing, patient home monitoring
John Foker	Surgery	Myocardial metabolism and its relation to cardiac function, energy metabolism and ischemia
Melissa Gardner	Genetics, Cell Biology and Development	Computational biology, quantitative fluorescence microscopy, single-molecule TIRF microscopy, genetics
Michael Garwood*	Radiology	Non-invasive nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) methodologies for cancer research
Geoff Ghose	Neuroscience	Effect of cognitive phenomena on neuronal signals underlying visually-guided behaviors
William Gleason	Lab Medicine and Pathology	Biomaterials, drug delivery, computational biology
Benjamin Hackel	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	Molecular imaging, engineering proteins, tumor targeting
Bruce Hammer	Radiology	Biotechnology, MR safety/compatability of medical devices, industrial process monitoring
Bin He	Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical imaging, neuroengineering, bioinstrumentation, biomodeling
Robert Hebbel	Medicine	Endothelial biology and tissue engineering, vascular pathobiology of sickle disease, endothelial-based gene therapy approaches to hemophilia and cancer
Wei-Shou Hu	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	Cell culture technology, tissue engineering, metabolic engineering
Allison Hubel	Mechanical Engineering	Culture and cryopreservation of engineered tissues, microfluidic devices
Paul Iaizzo	Surgery	Skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology, pathophysiology of inherited muscle disorders, human thermoregulation and biomedical correlates of wound prevention
Matt Johnson	Biomedical Engineering	Neuromodulation mechanisms and technology
Steven Koester	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Micro- and nanoelectronics, optoelectronic devices, photovoltaics, energy harvesting, biomedical devices
Efrosini Kokkoli	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	Targeted drug delivery, biomimetic approaches to biomaterials design
Cornelius Lam	Neurosurgery	Pediatric neurosurgery, epilepsy, craniofacial disorders, brain tumors
Paul Letourneau	Neuroscience	Nerve fiber growth, formation of neuronal connections during embryogenesis, mechanisms of cell motility
Jack Lewis	Orthopaedic Surgery	Musculoskeletal biomechanics, orthopaedic engineering
Hugh Lim	Biomedical Engineering	Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience, neural plasticity
Fei Lu	Medicine	Cardiac pacing for heart failure; state-of-the-art catheter ablation for complex cardiac arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia
Paula Ludewig*	Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	Musculoskeletal injury and rehabilitation
Jeffrey McCullough*	Lab Medicine and Pathology	Novel cellular therapies, clinical trials of platelet or granulcyte transfusion, trials of pathogen inactivated blood products
Greg Metzger	Radiology	Prostate cancer, ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging
Joachim Mueller	Physics	Experimental biophysics, two-photon excitation microscopy, fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy
Tay Netoff	Biomedical Engineering	Study of epilepsy, in vitro calcium imaging of seizures
Tom Novacheck	Orthopaedic Surgery	Gait analysis
David Nuckley	Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	Spinal mechanics, pediatric neck injury care, therapeutic strategies for low back pain resolution
David Odde	Biomedical Engineering	Cellular and molecular bioengineering in cancer
Sang-Hyun Oh	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Nanoscale biosensors, nanostructured solar cells, surface plasmon resonance, microfluidics
Hans Othmer	Mathematics	Cell mechanics and motility, developmental biology, dynamical systems, mathematical biology
Richard Poppele	Neuroscience	Neurophysiology of sensory-motor functions
Paolo Provenzano	Biomedical Engineering	Quantitative cancer biology, cell-matrix interactions, signal transduction, mechanotransduction, advanced optical imaging/biophotonics
Rajesh Rajamani	Mechanical Engineering	MEMS sensors, biomedical devices, battery-less wireless sensing applications
David Redish	Neuroscience	Dynamics of neural ensemble activity during learning, computational models of addiction and other disorders
Osha Roopnarine	Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics	Spectroscopic and functional studies of myosin mutations that cause heart disease
Jonathan Sachs	Biomedical Engineering	Computational molecular modeling, experimental biophysics
Michael Schwartz	Orthopaedic Surgery	Biomechanics, gait analysis
Wei Shen	Biomedical Engineering	Biomaterials, cellular microenvironments, cell-environment interactions, biomolecular engineering
Ron Siegel	Pharmaceutics	Drug delivery, hydrogels, MEMS
Fotis Sotiropoulos	Civil Engineering	Computational fluid dynamics, biomedical devices and virtual surgery
Ephraim Sparrow	Mechanical Engineering	Heat transfer and fluid mechanics
Alena Talkachova	Biomedical Engineering	Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, numerical modeling
David Thomas	Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics	Molecular dynamics of energy transduction in muscle using site-directed spectroscopic probes
Gerald Timm	Urologic Surgery	Technological solutions to urologic disease, disorders of the pelvic viscera, diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction
Bob Tranquillo	Biomedical Engineering	Cardiovascular tissue engineering
Kamil Ugurbil	Radiology	Development of ultrahigh field magnetic resonance methodology for MR imaging and spectroscopy
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele	Radiology	Medical imaging
Thomas Vaughan	Radiology	Biomedical instrumentation, electromagnetics design and modeling, magnetic resonance imaging
Jerrold Vitek	Neurology	Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, tremor
Chun Wang	Biomedical Engineering	Biologically guided engineering of polymeric biomaterials
Jian-Ping Wang	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Magnetic materials and spintronic devices, magnetic nanoparticles, spin transfer devices, magnetic information and biomedical technologies
David Wood	Biomedical Engineering	In vitro models of human disease, disease diagnostics
Jay Zhang	Medicine	Cardiology, NMR spectroscopic study of myocardial bioenergetics, cardiac applications of MRS and MRI, heart energetics

* Individuals marked with an asterisk (*) can only advise M.S. students. They may co-advise Ph.D. students with an eligible member of the BME Graduate Faculty, but they cannot serve as the sole Ph.D. advisor.

Student	Email	Lab Phone	Advisor
Atchison, Nicole	loren170@umn.edu		Efie Kokkoli, Michael Tsapatsis
Barik, Avijit	barik021@umn.edu		Sang-Hyun Oh
Baxter, Bryan	baxte144@umn.edu		Bin He
Beck, Richard	beckx259@umn.edu	612-624-3905	Bob Tranquillo
Bedard, Peter	beda0027@umn.edu
Bengtson, Aaron	beng0026@umn.edu
Benscoter, Mark	bens0018@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Berk, Serkan	sberk@umn.edu		Joachim Mueller
Black, Adam	black599@umn.edu	612-625-8963	Taner Akkin
Braun, Anthony	brau0123@umn.edu	612-624-8653	Jonathan Sachs
Buechler, Robert	buec0070@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Casper, Andrew	casp0069@umn.edu		Emad Ebbini
Castle, Brian	cast0189@umn.edu	612-624-9618	David Odde
Chau, David	chaux051@umn.edu		Wei-Shou Hu
Claeson, Amy	claes027@umn.edu	612-624-0259	Victor Barocas
Connolly, Allison	conn0547@umn.edu	612-624-1816	Matt Johnson
Cooper, Benjamin	coope379@umn.edu		Paolo Provenzano
Dong, Xiaoqiong (Daphne)	dongx105@umn.edu		David Thomas
Doud, Alexander	doudx005@umn.edu		Bin He
Edelman, Bradley	edelm029@umn.edu		Bin He
Edwards, Rachel	edwar398@umn.edu		Paolo Provenzano
Ellingson, Arin	ellin224@umn.edu		David Nuckley
Feely, Caitlin	feely028@umn.edu
Freeman, Andrew	freem085@umn.edu		Joan Bechtold
Gedwillo, Kianna	elahi009@umn.edu		Paolo Provenzano
Gjoraas, Amy	gjor0002@umn.edu
Gloeckner, Cory	gloe0027@umn.edu	612-624-7342	Hugh Lim
Goff, Ryan	goffx073@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Gyoneva, Lazarina	gyone002@umn.edu	612-626-9032	Victor Barocas
Hadi, Mohammad (Faisal)	hadix004@umn.edu	612-626-9032	Victor Barocas
Hald, Eric	haldx002@umn.edu	612-624-0648	Patrick Alford
Hall, Michelle	hall1638@umn.edu		Michael Schwartz
Haritonova, Alyona	harit005@umn.edu		Emad Ebbini
Hierman, Jared	hierm001@umn.edu	612-624-8766	Bob Tranquillo
Howard, Stephen	howa0255@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Hunt, Sarah	hunt0646@umn.edu	612-626-9032	Victor Barocas
Huynh, Thanh Nhat (Trevor)	huynh101@umn.edu	612-624-8766	Bob Tranquillo
Ippolito, Joseph	ippol004@umn.edu		Alena Talkachova
Jamison, Keith	kjamison@umn.edu	612-626-1118	Bin He
Ji, Weihang	jixxx048@umn.edu	612-625-5611	Chun Wang
Johnson, Nessa	joh02102@umn.edu	612-624-1610	Bin He
Jordan, Luke	jorda423@umn.edu		Sang-Hyun Oh
Klank, Rebecca	klan0038@umn.edu	612-624-9618	David Odde
Kumar, Shailabh	kuma0314@umn.edu		Sang-Hyun Oh
Lee, Steven	leex6574@umn.edu
Lenz, Michelle	lenzx105@umn.edu		Bob Tranquillo
Lewis, Andrew	lewis728@umn.edu	612-626-7219	Jonathan Sachs
Lin, Lin	linxx724@umn.edu		Hans Othmer
Liu, Jiaen	liux0736@umn.edu	612-626-1118	Bin He
Lohi, Markus	lohix001@umn.edu
Lu, Xinran (Daniel)	luxxx794@umn.edu		David Wood
Lu, Yunfeng	luxxx273@umn.edu	612-624-1610	Bin He
Mariappan, Leo	maria022@umn.edu	612-625-6961	Bin He
Markovitz, Craig	mark0561@umn.edu	612-624-7342	Hugh Lim
Merkling, Selina	merkl026@umn.edu		Paolo Provenzano
Mesfin, Yezihalem	mesri001@umn.edu	612-624-7342	Hugh Lim
Moghimi, Pantea	mogh0012@umn.edu		Geoff Ghose
Mohsenian, Kevin	mohs0034@umn.edu		Matt Johnson
Morgounova, Ekaterina	emorgoun@umn.edu	612-625-1833	Shai Asheknazi
O'Clock, George	ocloc003@umn.edu
Offutt, Sarah	offu0004@umn.edu	612-624-7342	Hugh Lim
Panus, David	panus010@umn.edu	612-625-5611	Chun Wang
Pearce, Timothy	pearc081@umn.edu		Efie Kokkoli
Podritz, Courtney	podri002@umn.edu		Paolo Provenzano
Pohl, Jessica	pohlx040@umn.edu		Hugh Lim
Poindexter, Rebecca	luger034@umn.edu
Pollock, Katie	pollo131@umn.edu		Allison Hubel
Prahl, Louis	prahl025@umn.edu		David Odde
Quallich, Stephen	qual0090@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Quindlen, Julia	quind003@umn.edu		Victor Barocas
Ray, Arja	rayxx286@umn.edu		Paolo Provenzano
Reimer, Jay	reime084@umn.edu	612-624-9293	Bob Tranquillo
Roy, Abhrajeet	royxx097@umn.edu	612-624-0491	Bin He
Rozumalski, Adam	rozu0002@umn.edu		Michael Schwartz
Schaefer, Jeremy	schae495@umn.edu		Bob Tranquillo
Schibonski, Diane	schib021@umn.edu		Will Durfee
Schulzetenberg, Robert	schu2904@umn.edu
Scott, Carolyn	scott899@umn.edu		Efie Kokkoli
Seibert, Bradley	seib0077@umn.edu
Shah, Sachin	shah0394@umn.edu		Victor Barocas
Shao, Qi	shaox070@umn.edu	612-625-1833	Shai Asheknazi
Sheaff, Clay	sheaf009@umn.edu	612-625-1833	Shai Asheknazi
Shurig, Robert	shuri001@umn.edu
Singal, Ashish	singa009@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Snyder, Carl	snyde095@umn.edu		Tommy Vaughan
Sonnabend, Sunny	sonn0062@umn.edu
Spencer, Julianne	eggu0008@umn.edu		Paul Iaizzo
Steucke, Kerianne	steu0057@umn.edu	612-624-0648	Patrick Alford
Stigen, Tyler	tstigen@umn.edu	612-625-3166	Tay Netoff
Straka, Malgorzata (Margo)	sior0005@umn.edu	612-624-7342	Hugh Lim
Suardini, Dona	suard001@umn.edu
Tadayon, Mohammad Amin	taday002@umn.edu	612-625-1833	Shai Ashkenazi
Taylor, Jennifer	tayl0716@umn.edu		Chen, Wei
Teplitzky, Ben	tepl0014@umn.edu	612-624-1816	Matt Johnson
Tubman, Emily	tubma006@umn.edu	612-624-9618	David Odde
Visweswaran, Ramjay	viswe001@umn.edu	612-625-8075	Alena Talkachova
Wang, Hui	wang1281@umn.edu	612-625-8963	Taner Akkin
Weidenhamer, Nathan	weide042@umn.edu	612-624-3905	Bob Tranquillo
Wendel, Jacqueline	wende045@umn.edu	612-624-8766	Jay Zhang, Bob Tranquillo
Win, Zaw	winxx005@umn.edu	612-624-0648	Patrick Alford
Xiao, Yizi (Joe)	xiao0111@umn.edu	612-624-1816	Matt Johnson
Yoder, Matthew	yoder027@umn.edu
Yu, Kai	yuxxx955@umn.edu		Bin He
Yu, Long	yuxxx549@umn.edu	612-626-1118	Bin He
Zhang, Huishi (Clara)	zhan0947@umn.edu	612-624-0491	Bin He
Zhang, Simeng (David)	zhan1610@umn.edu		James Ashe
Zhong, Xiao	zhong072@umn.edu	612-625-5611	Chun Wang
Zhou, Zhaoye	zhoux303@umn.edu	612-625-6980	Bin He
Zitella, Laura	zitel003@umn.edu	612-624-1816	Matt Johnson

Katherine Lindsay Administrator	Office: 7-106 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-6226 Email: linds059@umn.edu
Jessica Baltzley Undergraduate Program Assistant and Advisor	Office: 7-104 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-3446 Email: bmedus@umn.edu
Elizabeth Hedin Pre-Award Grant Coordinator	Office: 7-108 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-6141 Email: hedi0022@umn.edu
Rachel Jorgenson Graduate Program Assistant and Advisor	Office: 7-104 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-8396 Email: bmengp@umn.edu
Sheila Jurgens Accountant	Office: 7-105 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-3332 Email: jurge031@umn.edu
Sarah Schmidt Front Desk Assistant	Office: 7-105 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-4507 Email: schm2779@umn.edu

Taner Akkin Associate Professor

Biomedical optics, imaging

Office: 6-130 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-8783 Email: akkin@umn.edu

Patrick Alford Assistant Professor

Soft Tissue Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Traumatic Injury, Morphogenesis

Office: 6-136 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-4801 Email: pwalford@umn.edu

Shai Ashkenazi Assistant Professor

Bioimaging, instrumentation

Office: 6-126 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-6107 Email: ashke003@umn.edu

Victor Barocas Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Computational biomechanics and transport

Office: 7-115 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-5572 Email: baroc001@umn.edu

John Bischof Professor

Bioheat and mass transfer, thermophysics and biophysics, thermal injury, cryopreservation

Office: 200 Mechanical Eng Phone: 612-625-5513 Email: bischof@umn.edu

Primary appointment is Mechanical Eng.

Bin He Professor

Biomedical imaging, neuroengineering, bioinstrumentation, biomodeling

Office: 6-124 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-1115 Email: binhe@umn.edu

Professor,

Vice President for Research

Cell death, optical imaging technologies

Office: 419 Johnston Hall Phone: 612-624-5054 Email: herman@umn.edu

Office of the Vice President for Research

Matthew Johnson Assistant Professor

Neural engineering, computational modeling, neurophysiology

Office: 6-134 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-6492 Email: john5101@umn.edu

Hugh Lim Assistant Professor

Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience, neural plasticity

Office: 6-132 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-4565 Email: hlim@umn.edu

Tay Netoff Associate Professor

Neuroscience, study of epilepsy

Office: 6-122 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-3618 Email: tnetoff@umn.edu

David Odde Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Cellular and molecular bioengineering in cancer

Office: 7-132 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-9980 Email: oddex002@umn.edu

Brenda Ogle Associate Professor

Cardiovascular tissue engineering, stem cell bioengineering, cell-matrix interactions, microfluidic cytometry

Office: Phone: Email: ogle0008@umn.edu

Paolo Provenzano Assistant Professor

Quantitative cancer biology, cell-matrix interactions, signal transduction, mechanotransduction, advanced optical imaging/bio-photonics

Office: 7-120 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-3279 Email: pprovenz@umn.edu

Jonathan Sachs Associate Professor

Cellular membrane structure, biophysics

Office: 7-126 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-7158 Email: jnsachs@umn.edu

Wei Shen Associate Professor

Biomaterials, cellular microenvironments, cell-environment interactions, biomolecular engineering

Office: 7-118 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-624-3771 Email: shenx104@umn.edu

Ronald Siegel Professor

Drug delivery, hydrogels, MEMS

Office: 9-127E Weaver-Densford Hall Phone: 612-624-6164 Email: siege017@umn.edu

Primary appointment is Pharmaceutics

Alena Talkachova Assistant Professor

Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, numerical modeling

Office: 6-128 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-2719 Email: talkacal@umn.edu

Bob Tranquillo Professor Department Head

Cardiovascular tissue engineering

Office: 7-114 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-625-6868 Email: tranquillo@umn.edu

Chun Wang Associate Professor

Biomaterials, drug and gene delivery, tissue engineering

Office: 7-116 Hasselmo Hall Phone: 612-626-3990 Email: wangx504@umn.edu

David Wood Assistant Professor

Microfluidics, bioMEMS, disease-on-a-chip, diagnostics

Office: 7-110 Hasselmo Hall

Phone: 612-624-1438

Email: dkwood@umn.edu

Marie Johnson

BMEn 4001W and 4002W - Senior Design I and II for Biomedical Engineers

Email: mariej@aumcardiovascular.com

Bruce KenKnight

BMEn 4001W and 4002W - Senior Design I and II for Biomedical Engineers

Email: kenknight.bruce@gmail.com

Mark Kroll

Medical Devices Emphasis Area Advisor; BMEn 4001W and 4002W - Senior Design I and II for Biomedical Engineers

Email: mark@kroll.name

Steven Saliterman

BMEn 5151 - Intro to BioMEMs

Email: drsteve@umn.edu

To see Graduate Faculty listed by research area, please visit our Research section.

Faculty Member

Taner Akkin
Associate Professor

Office: 6-130 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-625-8783
Email: akkin@umn.edu

Patrick Alford
Assistant Professor

Office: 6-136 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-625-4801
Email: pwalford@umn.edu

Shai Ashkenazi
Assistant Professor

Office: 6-126 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-625-6107
Email: ashke003@umn.edu

Victor Barocas
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Office: 7-115 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-5572
Email: baroc001@umn.edu

John Bischof
Professor

Office: 200 Mechanical Eng
Phone: 612-625-5513
Email: bischof@umn.edu

Bin He
Professor

Office: 6-124 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-1115
Email: binhe@umn.edu

Office: 419 Johnston Hall
Phone: 612-624-5054
Email: herman@umn.edu

Matthew Johnson
Assistant Professor

Office: 6-134 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-6492
Email: john5101@umn.edu

Hugh Lim
Assistant Professor

Office: 6-132 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-4565
Email: hlim@umn.edu

Tay Netoff
Associate Professor

Office: 6-122 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-625-3618
Email: tnetoff@umn.edu

David Odde
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office: 7-132 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-9980
Email: oddex002@umn.edu

Brenda Ogle
Associate Professor

Office:
Phone:
Email: ogle0008@umn.edu

Paolo Provenzano
Assistant Professor

Office: 7-120 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-624-3279
Email: pprovenz@umn.edu

Jonathan Sachs
Associate Professor

Office: 7-126 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-624-7158
Email: jnsachs@umn.edu

Wei Shen
Associate Professor

Office: 7-118 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-624-3771
Email: shenx104@umn.edu

Ronald Siegel
Professor

Office: 9-127E Weaver-Densford Hall
Phone: 612-624-6164
Email: siege017@umn.edu

Alena Talkachova
Assistant Professor

Office: 6-128 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-2719
Email: talkacal@umn.edu

Bob Tranquillo
Professor
Department Head

Office: 7-114 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-625-6868
Email: tranquillo@umn.edu

Chun Wang
Associate Professor

Office: 7-116 Hasselmo Hall
Phone: 612-626-3990
Email: wangx504@umn.edu

David Wood
Assistant Professor