Biomolecular, Cellular, and Tissue Engineering

Department Faculty

Patrick Alford

Biomedical Engineering

Soft tissue biomechanics, tissue engineering, traumatic injury, morphogenesis

Victor Barocas

Biomedical Engineering

Soft tissue biomechanics, biotransport

John Bischof

Mechanical Engineering

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

David Odde

Biomedical Engineering

Mitosis, cell growth, microtubule dynamics

Brenda Ogle

Biomedical Engineering

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

Paolo Provenzano

Biomedical Engineering

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

Jonathan Sachs

Biomedical Engineering

Computational molecular modeling, experimental biophysics

Wei Shen

Biomedical Engineering

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

Bob Tranquillo

Biomedical Engineering

Cardiovascular tissue engineering

Chun Wang

Biomedical Engineering

Biologically guided engineering of polymeric biomaterials

David Wood

Biomedical Engineering

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

Faculty with Graduate Education Responsibilities

Alptekin Aksan

Mechanical Engineering

Biostabilization and biopreservation

Edgar Arriaga

Chemistry

Characterization of subcellular environments, single cell studies, BioMEMS

Michael Bowser

Chemistry

Bioanalysis, microfluidics, neurochemistry, iIn vitro selection

Kevin Dorfman

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Microfluidic electrophoresis of DNA and other biomolecules, biophysics of structured nucleic acids

Melissa Gardner

Genetics, Cell Biology & Development

Computational biology, quantitative fluorescence microscopy, single-molecule TIRF microscopy, genetics

Benjamin Hackel

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Molecular imaging, engineering proteins, tumor targeting

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

Efrosini Kokkoli

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Targeted drug delivery, biomimetic approaches to biomaterials design

Jeffrey McCullough

Lab Medicine and Pathology

Novel cellular therapies, clinical trials of platelet or granulcyte transfusion, trials of pathogen inactivated blood products

Hans Othmer

Mathematics

Cell mechanics and motility, developmental biology, dynamical systems, mathematical biology

Osha Roopnarine

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Spectroscopic and functional studies of myosin mutations that cause heart disease

David Thomas

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Molecular dynamics of energy transduction in muscle using site-directed spectroscopic probes