Faculty expertise

Biomedical imaging and instrumentation

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  Jitao Zhang

  Jitao's faculty profile

  • 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

  Mahendra's faculty profile

  • 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

  Cynthia's faculty profile

  • 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

  E. Peter's faculty profile

  • Designing and testing robotic devices for therapy
     
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  Liying Zhang

  Liying's faculty profile

  • 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

  Mai's faculty profile

  • 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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  Harini Sundararaghavan

  Harini's faculty profile

  • 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