Biomedical Engineering 125
Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor David Shreiber, Biomedical Engineering Building, Busch Campus (848-445-6589)
Codirector of Graduate Program: Professor Ramsey Foty, Surgery,
UMDNJ-RWJMS, 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 BioMaPS, SAS; 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 microscopyHelen 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; rehabilitationLi Cai, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., UMDNJ
Physiology; neural stem cell research in developing retinaBernard Coleman, Professor of Mathematics, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Continuum mechanics; thermodynamics; biophysicsWilliam Craelius, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Northwestern
Cardiac and neural electrophysiology; biophysics;
prosthetics; rehabilitationGary M. Drzewiecki, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Circulatory system dynamics; noninvasive hemodynamics; chaos
and fractalsMichael 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, SE; 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 biomechanicsPanagiotis Georgopoulos, Associate Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS, Ph.D., California
Institute of Technology
Environmental chemical engineering; turbulent transport;
reactive flowsMartin 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., Imperial College
Process systems engineering; optimization
Joachim B. Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D.,
Weizmann (Israel)
Polymeric biomaterials; 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
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
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
Ronke M. Olabisi, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Orthopedic tissue engineering for aging, injury, disease, and space flight
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, SE; Ph.D.,
Manchester
Optical imaging systems for cancer diagnosis and management
Richard Riman, Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hydrothermal synthesis; biomaterials
Charles M. Roth, Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; inflammatory diseases; applied
bioinformaticsJohn Semmlow, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Neural control of eye movements; noninvasive detection of
coronary artery disease Troy Shinbrot, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Maryland (College Park)
Computational bioengineering; self-assembly; mixing; chaos theoryGeorge 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 regenerationFrederick H. Silver, Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biomaterials; connective tissue structure and mechanics;
viscoelasticityPatrick J. Sinko, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D.,
Michigan
Biopharmaceutics; intestinal absorption mechanism; peptide
drug analogs and anti-HIV drug metabolismJay A. Tischfield, Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Genetics and genomics; complex human diseasesMaria Silvina Tomassone, Associate Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northeastern
Interfacial phenomena; spreading; surfactant dynamics;
nanoparticle dynamicsKathryn E. Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D.,
Cornell
Biopolymer synthesis; microfabrication; drug deliveryJoseph Wilder, Research Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Human visual perception; biometrics; vision-based
instrumentationMartin 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 bioengineeringJeffrey D. Zahn, Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (San Francisco and Berkeley)
Microscale flow phenomena; miniaturizing biomedical
instrumentationAssociate Members of the Graduate FacultyHelen Berman, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Bioinformatics; genomics; proteomics; biophysics 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 Emeritus 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, SAS/WIM;
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,
SE/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 cancerZhixiong Guo, Professor
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Polytechnic
Laser-material interactions; bioimaging and sensing;
micro-/nanoscale phenomena; thermal radiation; numerical modeling 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;
aerodynamicsCasimir A. Kulikowski, Professor of Computer Science, SAS;
Ph.D., Hawaii
Artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; imaging;
biomedical applicationsMichael 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, SE; 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 Kenneth Paradiso, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Stony Brook
Pre- and postsynaptic physiology at the calyx of Held
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, SE; Ph.D.,
Harvard
Stem cells; central nervous system injury Paul Takhistov, Associate Professor of Food Science, SEBS;
Ph.D., USSR Academy of Science
Nonthermal food processing; biofilms; biosensors;
nanotechnology Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty Carlos Eduardo Caicedo-Carvajal, Senior Scientist, Orthobond Corp.; Ph.D., Rutgers/UMDNJ
Tissue engineering; cancer architecture
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