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Michelle Digman, Ph.D.
William J. Link Associate Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biophotonics, fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, nanoscale imaging, mechanotransduction, cancer cell migration, fluorescence lifetime and metabolic mapping
Email: mdigman@uci.edu
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Kyriacos Athanasiou, Ph.D.
Henry Samueli Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director of DELTAi (Directing Engineering & Life-science Translational Advances @ Irvine)
Research Interests: Understanding and enhancing the healing processes of musculoskeletal tissues as well as the body’s cartilaginous tissues, applying the translation of engineering innovations to clinical use, especially in terms of instruments and devices
Email: athens@uci.edu
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Elliot Botvinick, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Laser microbeams, cellular mechanotransduction, mechanobiology
Email: elliot.botvinick@uci.edu
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Gregory Brewer, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Neuronal networks, decoding brain learning and memory, brain-inspired computing, Alzheimer's disease, brain aging, neuron cell culture
Email: gjbrewer@uci.edu
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James Brody, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, micro-nanoscale systems
Email: jpbrody@uci.edu
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Zhongping Chen, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Surgery; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, optical coherence tomography, bioMEMS, biomedical devices
Email: z2chen@uci.edu
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Naomi Chesler, Ph.D.
Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Cardiovascular Innovation and Research Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Cardiovascular mechanobiology and biomechanics, engineering education, diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM
Email: nchesler@uci.edu
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Bernard Choi, Ph.D.
Professor in Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, in vivo optical imaging, microvasculature, light-based therapeutics
Email: choib@uci.edu
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Fangyuan Ding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Developmental and Cell Biology; Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests: Spatial transcriptomics, RNA biology and engineering, synthetic biology, single molecule imaging and biophysics
Email: dingfy@uci.edu
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Tim Downing, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests: Stem cell and tissue engineering, regenerative biology, cell reprogramming, epigenomics, mechanobiology
Email: tim.downing@uci.edu
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Enrico Gratton, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests: Design of new fluorescence instruments, protein dynamics, single molecule, fluorescence microscopy, photon migration in tissues
Email: egratton@uci.edu
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Anna Grosberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Computational modeling of biological systems, biomechanics, cardiac tissue engineering
Email: grosberg@uci.edu
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Jered Haun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, molecular engineering, computational simulations, targeted drug delivery, clinical cancer detection
Email: jered.haun@uci.edu
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Elliot Hui, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Microscale tissue engineering, bioMEMS, cell-cell interactions, global health diagnostics
Email: eehui@uci.edu
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Tibor Juhasz, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Laser-tissue interactions, high-precision microsurgery with lasers, laser applications in ophthalmology, corneal biomechanics
Email: tjuhasz@uci.edu
Arash Kheradvar, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Cardiac mechanics, cardiovascular devices, cardiac imaging
Email: arashkh@uci.edu
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Michelle Khine, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Development of novel nano- and micro-fabrication technologies and systems for single cell analysis, stem cell research, in vitro diagnostics
Email: mkhine@uci.edu
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Christine King, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Teaching Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering and STEM education, active learning, wireless health systems, rehabilitation, brain-computer interfaces, robotics
Email: kingce@uci.edu
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Frithjof Kruggel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical signal and image processing, anatomical and functional neuroimaging in humans, structure-function relationship in the human brain
Email: fkruggel@uci.edu
Abraham Lee, Ph.D.
Chancellor's Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Lab-on-a-chip health monitoring instruments, drug delivery micro/nanoparticles, integrated cell-sorting microdevices, lipid vesicles as carriers for cells and biomolecules, high-throughput droplet bioassays, microfluidic tactile sensors
Email: aplee@uci.edu
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Chang Liu, Ph.D.
Professor and Chancellor's Fellow of Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Biology; Biochemistry
Research Interests: Genetic engineering, directed evolution, synthetic biology, chemical biology
Email: ccl@uci.edu
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Wendy Liu, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials, microdevices in cardiovascular engineering, cell-cell and cell-micro-environment interactions, cell functions and controls
Email: wendy.liu@uci.edu
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Beth Lopour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, signal processing, mathematical modeling, epilepsy, translational research
Email: beth.lopour@uci.edu
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Joshua Mauney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Urology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Tissue engineering of urogenital, gastrointestinal, and respiratory hollow organs, silk fibroin biomaterials, cellular and molecular mechanisms of tissue regeneration following surgical reconstruction
Email: mauneyj@uci.edu
Zoran Nenadic, D.Sc.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Adaptive biomedical signal processing, control algorithms for biomedical devices, brain-machine interfaces, modeling and analysis of biological neural networks
Email: znenadic@uci.edu
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Ronke Olabisi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Samueli Faculty Development Chair
Research Interests: Orthopedic tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for injury, aging, disease, and space flight
Email: ronke.olabisi@uci.edu
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Pim Oomen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Cardiovascular biomechanics, electrophysiology, growth & remodeling, patient-specific modeling
Email: poomen@uci.edu
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Daryl Preece, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Nano-optics, neuro-photonics, optical forces and mechanotransduction, singular optics and biophotonics
Email: dpreece@uci.edu
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Gurneet Sangha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (starts April 1, 2025)
Research Interests: Vascular mechanobiology, cardiovascular imaging, hematology, healthcare disparities
Email: gsangha1@uci.edu
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William Tang, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) nanoscale engineering for biomedical applications, microsystems integration, microimplants, microbiomechanics, microfluidics
Email: wctang@uci.edu
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Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Photon migration, diffuse optical imaging, non-linear optical microscopy, photodynamic therapy
Email: bjtrombe@uci.edu
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Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Bioelectronics, bioimaging, biomedical computational technologies
Email: liangzhx@uci.edu
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