Biomedical Engineering 125
Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy
The curriculum for the master of engineering degree is offered online as well as on campus.
Director of Graduate Program: Professor David Shreiber, Biomedical Engineering Building, Busch Campus (848-445-6589)
Website: http://bme.rutgers.edu/graduate-program
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Glenn Amatucci, Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Energy storage devices and materials; microbatteries;
nanomaterials
Ioannis P. Androulakis, 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
Nada N. Boustany, Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bio-optics; optical imaging; microscopy
Kenneth Breslauer, Linus C. Pauling
Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Molecular recognition; drug-DNA interactions; DNA
polymorphism; characterizing inter- and intramolecular forces macroscopically
and microscopically; biothermody 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
Shishir P. S. Chundawat, Assistant
Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Michigan State
Glycoengineering; protein engineering; glycan
biopolymers; biofuels
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, RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Tissue engineering for tendons/ligaments; resorbable
biomaterials; wound healing
Bonnie Firestein, 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, RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Rutgers
Imaging; telemedicine; bioinformatics; pattern recognition;
computer-assisted diagnosis
Ramsey A. Foty, Associate Professor of Surgery, 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
J. Christopher Fritton, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, NJMS; Ph.D., Cornell
Damage detection by bone cells; tissue repair mechanisms; diet and
drugs effects on fracture risk
Charles J. Gatt, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, RWJMS; M.D., UMDNJ
Sports medicine; knee biomechanics
Panagiotis Georgopoulos, Professor of
Environmental and Occupational Medicine, RWJMS, Ph.D., California
Institute of Technology
Environmental chemical engineering; turbulent transport;
reactive flows
Adam Gormley, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Utah
Biomaterials, nanomedicine, and self-assembly; biosensing and diagnostics
Martin Grumet, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion in the nervous system
Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., British Columbia (Canada)
Medical image processing and analysis;
image guided surgery and therapy systems; computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery
Marianthi Ierapetritou, Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Imperial College (UK)
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, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Nanobiomaterials; biosensors; chemical/functional genomicsJ
ohn K-J. Li, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE;
Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Cardiovascular dynamics; biomedical instrumentation
Adrian Mann, Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Oxford
Nanotechnology; biomaterials and tissue engineering
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, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Protein evolution and folding; computational de novo design of proteins and biomimetics
Judith A. Neubauer, Professor of Medicine, RWJMS;
Ph.D., Rutgers
Neuromodulation of central neurons; neurobiology
Ronke M. Olabisi, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; 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
Biju Parekkadan, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, RBHS; Ph.D., Harvard
Develop and translate new technologies for cell and genetic engineering
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
bioinformatics
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, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Tissue engineering; injury biomechanics; nerve regeneration
Frederick H. Silver, Professor of Pathology, 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
Stavroula Sofou, Associate Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Biomedical engineering; membranes; self-assembly of
biological materials; drug delivery; intermolecular and interfacial
interactions
Jay C. Sy, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory
Drug delivery; medical devices; biomaterials; heart and brain disease
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; drug delivery
Harvey R. Weiss, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Duke
Coronary and cerebral circulation; nitric oxide; myocardial signal transduction
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, Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (San Francisco and Berkeley)
Microscale flow phenomena; miniaturizing biomedical
instrumentation
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Jean Baum, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Protein recognition and aggregation
Helen 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
Wei Dai, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Baylor
Structures of protein complexes by cryo-electron microscopy and tomographyStephen C. Danforth, Professor of Materials Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Solid free-form fabrication; fused deposition; microstructure/property relationships
Shabbar Danish, Associate Professor of Surgery, RWJMS; M.D., UMDNJ-RWJMS
Pattern recognition; deep brain stimulation surgery
Meenakshi Dutt, Assistant Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Duke
Particle technology; multifunctional biohybrid materials;
nanoparticle-cell membrane interactions; molecular simulations
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, Associate 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, Associate Professor of Medicine and
Pharmacology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
DNA repair; chromatin structure; breast cancer biology
Marc R. Gartenberg, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale
Nuclear organization of DNA; chromosome structure; yeast
plasmid segregation
Zhixiong Guo, Professor
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Polytechnic
Laser-material interactions; bioimaging and sensing;
micro-/nanoscale phenomena; thermal radiation; numerical modeling
Medhi Javanmard, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Stanford
Nanobiotechnology; bioMEMS; point-of-care diagnostics; biomarker detection
Hilton Kaplan, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology; SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
Neuroscience; decellularized limb-face transplants; man-machine interfaces
Sagar D. Khare, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Computational design of enzymes and protein-ligand interactions; molecular recognition
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
Kristen S. Labazzo, Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Medical device development and testing; prototype fabrication and biomaterialsSang-Hyuk Lee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Biological physics
Michael Lewis, Professor of Psychology, 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
David
J. Margolis, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D.,
Washington
In
vivo two-photo imaging; neural circuit function; neuroplasticity; TBI
Sanjeeva
Murthy, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology;
SAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
Biomedical materials
Laleh Najafizadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Cognitive neuroscience; functional brain imaging; diffuse optical brain imaging; brain connectivity
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
Zhiping Pang, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Texas (Southwestern)
Mechanisms of synaptic regulation: from stem cell to the brain
Kenneth Paradiso, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, RWJMS; Ph.D., Stony Brook
Pre- and postsynaptic physiology at the calyx of Held
Assimina Pelegri, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Georgia
Interfacial mechanics as applied to the characterization,
experimentation, and multiscale modelling of biological composite
structures
Derek B. Sant'Angelo, Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS/CHINJ; Ph.D., Rutgers/RWJMS
Innate T cells; transcription factors;
autoimmunity; lineage commitment; immune system development; immunotherapy
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 Elizabeth B. Torres, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Cognitive psychology; motor memory Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty Kavita Beri, Visiting Scientist at New Jersey Center for Biomaterials and
Center for Dermal Research; Ph.D., Mahatama Gandhi Mission
Wound healing using lasers, stem cells, and plant-derived phytohormones Carlos Eduardo Caicedo-Carvajal, Senior Scientist, Orthobond Corp.; Ph.D., Rutgers/UMDNJ
Tissue engineering; cancer architecture Lloyd Marks, M.D., President, MGI Medical; Ph.D., Michigan
Acquisition and processing of real time physiologic data for clinical use
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