Faculty expertise
- Biomedical imaging and instrumentation
- Computational and systems biology
- Injury and musculosketal biomechanics
- Tissue engineering and biomaterials
Biomedical imaging and instrumentation
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Zhifeng Kou
- Neuroimaging of traumatic brain injury
- Biomedical signal processing (MR pulse sequence design)
- Biomedical image processing
- Neuroscience
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Jitao Zhang
- Brillouin microscopy
- Stiffness and viscosity of cells, tissue and biomaterials
- Clinical application in combating birth defects and cancers
Computational and systems biology
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Mahendra Kavdia
- Vascular systems biology and bioengineering
- Computational and multiscale modeling of biological and physiological systems
- Biotransport, signal transduction and reaction network
- Nitric oxide, reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species; oxidative and nitrosative stress
- Endothelial cell dysfunction, blood substitutes
- Mechanisms of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and age-related vascular complications
Injury and musculoskeletal biomechanics
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Cynthia Bir
- Forensic bioengineering
- Law enforcement safety
- Biomechanical analysis of MTBI associated with football
- Evaluation of the cumulative concussive effect of heading in youth soccer
- Evaluation of acceleration techniques for measuring head impact bbiomechanics
- Correlation between punch dynamics and risk of injury: Biomedical analysis of a boxer's punch
- Assessment of MTBI in female boxers
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E. Peter Washabaugh
- Designing and testing robotic devices for therapy
- Designing and testing robotic devices for therapy
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Liying Zhang
- Injury biomechanics
- Mechanisms of head injury from impact, sports and blast loading
- Experimental and computational modeling of brain injury in humans and animal models
- Helmet impact performance and protection
- Open-field blast experiments and simulations
- Axonal neuropathology
- Physiology and blood protein biomarkers
- Clinical studies
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Cameron ‘Dale’ Bass
Cameron 'Dale' Bass' faculty profile
- Assessing human injury and/or fatality risk from various vocational, occupational, vehicular, and military exposures
Tissue engineering and biomaterials
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Mai Lam
- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- Biomaterials applications
- Cardiac and musculoskeletal systems
- Stem cell differentiation and transplantation
- Cellular and tissue biomechanics
- Extracellular matrix interactions
- Cell adhesion
- Translational studies
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Ulrike Klueh
- Role of inflammation and wound healing in controlling performance and function of implantable devices and biomaterials in vitro and in vivo
- Biomarkes for clinical management of diabetic foot ulcers
- Disparities and diabetes technology
- Role of environmental pollutants and diabetes
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Harini Sundararaghavan
- Neural tissue engineering
- Designing polymeric scaffolds for directed cell migration
- Three-dimensional tissue-engineered gradients: chemotaxis, haptotaxis, durotaxis
- Directing differentiation of adult stem cells
- Microfluidics/soft lithography
- Electrospinning
