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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2017 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Biomedical Engineering 125  

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 theory

George 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 tomography

Stephen 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 biomaterials

Sang-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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