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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2010–2012 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Biomedical Engineering 125  

Biomedical Engineering 125

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor David Shreiber, Biomedical Engineering Building, Busch Campus (732-445-4500, ext. 6312)

Codirector of Graduate Program: Professor Ramsey Foty, Surgery, UMDNJ, Clinical Academic Building, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732-235-7482)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Harold Alexander, President, Orthogen, Inc.; President, Academic Research and Analysis
Tissue engineering; biomechanics; biomaterials; orthopedic implant design

Glenn Amatucci, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Energy storage devices and materials; microbatteries; nanomaterials

Ioannis P. Androulakis, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D, Purdue
Bioinformatics; systems engineering

François Berthiaume, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Tissue; stem cell; metabolic engineering for tissue regeneration

Gyan Bhanot, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Cancer biomarkers; pathways; drug targets; microarray and mass spectrometry data analysis; population genetics; evolution and disease

Nada N. Boustany, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bio-optics; optical imaging and microscopy

Helen M. Buettner, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Chemical and biochemical engineering; nerve regeneration

Grigore C. Burdea, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Director, Human-Machine Interface Laboratory; Ph.D., New York Medical
Robotics and virtual reality; biomechanics; rehabilitation

Li Cai, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., UMDNJ
Physiology; neural stem cell research in developing retina

Bernard Coleman, Professor of Mathematics, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Continuum mechanics; thermodynamics; biophysics

William Craelius, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Cardiac and neural electrophysiology; biophysics; prosthetics; rehabilitation

Gary M. Drzewiecki, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Circulatory system dynamics; noninvasive hemodynamics; chaos and fractals

Michael G. Dunn, Associate Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Tissue engineering for tendons/ligaments; resorbable biomaterials; wound healing

Bonnie Firestein, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Dendrite branching in forebrain and spinal cord neurons

David Foran, Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Imaging; telemedicine; bioinformatics; pattern recognition; computer-assisted diagnosis

Ramsey A. Foty, Associate Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Toronto
Self assembly in embryonic development; tissue engineering

Joseph W. Freeman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., Rutgers/UMDNJ
Repair and regeneration of tissue; mechanisms of tissue damage and healing; cancer development

Charles J. Gatt, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., UMDNJ
Sports medicine; knee biomechanics

Panagiotis Georgopoulos, Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Environmental chemical engineering; turbulent transport; reactive flows

Martin Grumet, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion in the nervous system

Marianthi Ierapetritou, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northeastern
Process systems engineering; optimization

Sobin Kim, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
DNA sequencing; genotyping and haplotyping; disease gene discovery

Joachim B. Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, SAS-NB; Ph.D., Weizmann (Israel)
Interaction of living cells with artificial surfaces

Eileen Kowler, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland
Eye movements and visual information processing

Noshir A. Langrana, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Spinal mechanics; fracture fixation; knee joint; kinematics
 
Ki-Bum Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Nanobiomaterials; biosensors; chemical/functional genomics

John K-J. Li, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Cardiovascular dynamics; biomedical instrumentation

Jianjie Ma, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Baylor
Molecular, cellular, and nanosystems bioengineering

Anant Madabhushi, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D.,Pennsylvania
Medical image analysis; machine learning; computer-aided diagnosis

Adrian Mann, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Oxford
Nanotechnology; biomaterials and tissue engineering

Dimitris Metaxas, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Computational bioengineering; biomedical imaging

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Syracuse
Visual pattern recognition; neural networks; digital signal processing

Bozena Michniak-Kohn, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Leicester (UK)
Topical and transdermal drug delivery

Prabhas V. Moghe, Professor of Biomedical, Chemical, and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota
Matrix microarchitecture; tissue engineering; cell-biomaterials interactions; stem cells

Fernando Muzzio, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Mixing; chaos and randomness; transport phenomena

Vikas Nanda, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Protein evolution and folding; computational de novo design of proteins and biomimetics

Judith A. Neubauer, Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Neuromodulation of central neurons; neurobiology

Thomas V. Papathomas, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Motion, depth, and texture perception; visual pattern recognition

Mark Pierce, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., Manchester
Optical imaging systems for cancer diagnosis and management

Richard Riman, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Hydrothermal synthesis; biomaterials

Charles M. Roth, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; inflammatory diseases; applied bioinformatics

John Semmlow, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Illinois
Neural control of eye movements; noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease

Troy Shinbrot, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Computational bioengineering; biomedical imaging

George K. Shoane, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Visual control models; early visual processing; machine vision applications

David I. Shreiber, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Tissue engineering; injury biomechanics; nerve regeneration

Frederick H. Silver, Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biomaterials; connective tissue structure and mechanics; viscoelasticity

Patrick J. Sinko, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Michigan
Biopharmaceutics; intestinal absorption mechanism; peptide drug analogs and anti-HIV drug metabolism

Jay A. Tischfield, Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Genetics and genomics; complex human diseases

Maria Silvina Tomassone, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northeastern
Interfacial phenomena; spreading; surfactant dynamics; nanoparticle dynamics

Kathryn E. Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Biopolymer synthesis; microfabrication; nerve repair

Joseph Wilder, Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Human visual perception; biometrics; vision-based instrumentation

Martin L. Yarmush, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller; M.D., Yale
Tissue engineering; metabolic engineering; genomics and proteomics; stem cell bioengineering

Jeffrey D. Zahn, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (San Francisco and Berkeley)
Microscale flow phenomena; miniaturizing biomedical instrumentation

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Helen Berman, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Bioinformatics; genomics; proteomics; biophysics

Bharat Biswal, Associate Professor of Radiology, UMDNJ-NJMS; Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin
Medical imaging, including MRI, functional MRI, and laser Doppler imaging

Kenneth J. Breslauer, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
DNA-drug interactions; biothermodynamics; drug designs

Stephen C. Danforth, Professor of Materials Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Solid free-form fabrication; fused deposition; microstructure/property relationships

Shabbar Danish, Assistant Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ/RWJMS; M.D., UMDNJ/RWJMS
Pattern recognition; deep brain stimulation surgery

David T. Denhardt, Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, SAS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Molecular biology of cancer; cell signaling and regulation of gene expression; structure and function of osteopontin and tissue inhibitor or metalloproteinases

Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry, HHMI Investigator, WIM/SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Structure and mechanism of transcription complexes; small-molecule inhibitors of transcription; single-molecule imaging

Laura Fabris, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, SOE/IAMDN; Ph.D., Padova (Italy)
Hybrid nanomaterials for optics and electronics; bioconjugated nanomaterials for imaging; biosensing and drug delivery

Shridar Ganesan, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
DNA repair; chromatin structure; breast cancer biology

Marc R. Gartenberg, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale
Nuclear organization of DNA; chromosome structure; yeast plasmid segregation

John Glod, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Colorado
Microenvironment of solid tumors; interactions of macrophages and glioma stem cells; breast cancer

Zhixiong Guo, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Polytechnic
Laser-material interactions; bioimaging and sensing; micro/nanoscale phenomena; thermal radiation; numerical modeling

Charalampos Kalodimos, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Ioannina (Greece) and Curie Institute (France)
Protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions; biomolecular NMR spectroscopy

Doyle D. Knight, Mary Raisler Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Compressible fluid mechanics; turbulence; computational fluid dynamics; automated optimal design; high-performance computing; aerodynamics

Casimir A. Kulikowski, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Hawaii
Artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; imaging; biomedical applications

Michael Lewis, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Socioemotional and perceptual-cognitive development

Kang Li, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Data mining; health monitoring; quality and reliability; stochastic processes and sensor data analysis

Tim Maguire, Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Tissue engineering; medical device and systems engineering    

Sanjeeva Murthy, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; SAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
Development of biological materials using polymer physics

Alexander V. Neimark, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., D.Sc., Moscow State
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; molecular simulations of nanophases and nanostructured materials; characterization of porous materials; adsorption; micro- and nanofluids of biofluids

Wilma Olson, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical and computational studies of nucleic acid structure and properties

Jerry I. Scheinbeim, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Polymer electroprocessing; structure-electroactive properties relationships in electroactive polymeric materials; ferroelectric, peizoelectric, pyroelectric, dielectric, and electrostrictive properties of polymers

Rene Schloss, Research Associate in Biomedical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., Harvard
Stem cells; central nervous system injury

Aaron Shatkin, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; University Professor of Molecular Biology, Rutgers; Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine; Ph.D., Rockefeller
Eukaryotic gene expression; viral cytopathogenesis; protein synthesis

Paul Takhistov, Associate Professor of Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., USSR Academy of Science
Nonthermal food processing; biofilms; biosensors; nanotechnology

Lin Yang, Assistant Professor of Radiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Medical image analysis; computer vision and machine learning

 
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