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BME Graduate Faculty

 

Taner Akkin
    (Biomedical Engineering)
    Biomedical optics and imaging
akkin@umn.edu
    (612) 625-8783
Alptekin Aksan
(Mechanical Engineering)
Biostabilization and Biopreservation
aaksan@me.umn.edu
(612) 626-6618
Edgar Arriaga
(Chemistry)
Characterization of subcellular environments, single cell studies, BioMEMS
arriaga@chem.umn.edu
(612) 624-8024
James Ashe
(Neuroscience)
Neural control of behavior including basic motor function, motor learning, sequence production, and decision making.
ashe@umn.edu
(612) 725-2282
Shai Ashkenazi, Ph.D.
( Biomedical Engineering)
Bioimaging, Instrumentation
ashke003@umn.edu
(612) 625-6107
Roberto Ballarini
(Civil Engineering)
Biomechanics
broberto@umn.edu
(612) 625-2148
Alan Bank*
(Medicine)
arterial elastic mechanics, biomechanics of atherosclerotic plaque rupture, congestive heart failure, endothelial function
bankx001@tc.umn.edu
(651) 726-6983
Victor Barocas
(Biomedical Engineering, DGS)
Computational Biomechanics and Biotransport, Tissue Engineering, Ophthalmic Engineering, Microfluidics
baroc001@umn.edu
(612) 626-5572
Joan E. Bechtold
(Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Hennepin County Medical Center)
Biomechanics, mechanical testing, fracture fixation, joint prostheses
bechto1@attglobal.net
(612) 336-6609
John Bischof
(Mechanical Engineering)
Bioeat and Mass Transfer, Thermophysics and biophysics, Thermal Injury (Burn or Cryo), Cryopreservation.
bischof@umn.edu
(612) 625-5513
Patrick Bolan*
(Radiology)
MRI
bola0035@umn.edu
(612) 625-7302
Michael Bowser
(Chemistry)
Bioanalysis, Microfluidics, Neurochemistry, In Vitro Selection
bowser@chem.umn.edu
(612) 624-0873
Matthew Chafee*
(Neuroscience)
Neuroscience
chafe001@umn.edu
(612) 823-5937
Wei Chen
(Radiology)
Study of metabolism and function in brain and heart using magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging technologies
wei@cmrr.umn.edu
(612) 625-8814
Michel Cramer-Bornemann*
(Neurology)
Sleep disorders medicine
crame008@umn.edu
(612) 624-0999
Tianhong Cui
(Mechanical Engineering)
MEMS/NEMS, Micro/Nanomanufacturing,
Flexible Electronics
cuixx006@umn.edu
Kevin Dorfman
(CEMS)
Microfluidics BiomMEMS
dorfman@umn.edu
(612) 624-5560
William K. Durfee
(Mechanical Engineering)
Muscle biomechanics, electrical stimulation, medical product design, virtual reality
wkdurfee@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-0099
Emad Ebbini
(Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Image-guided surgery with ultrasound phased arrays, real time 3D cardiac imaging, signal and image processing, ultrasonic imaging
emad@ece.umn.edu
(612) 625-1852
Timothy Ebner
(Neuroscience)
Cerebellum and motor cortex control of arm movements and brain optical imaging
ebner001@umn.edu
(612) 626-2205
 Arthur G. Erdman
(Mechanical Engineering)
Medical device and product design, kinematics and dynamic applications, MEMS devices in medicine
agerdman@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-8580
Stanley M. Finkelstein
(Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
Instrumentation, medical computing, patient home monitoring
stan@umn.edu
(612) 625-6406  
John E. Foker
(Surgery)
Prostheses, bioprosthetic cardiac valves
foker001@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-0910
Michael G. Garwood*
(Radiology)
In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
gar@umn.edu
(612) 626-7007
Geoff Ghose
(Neuroscience)
ghose002@umn.edu
(612) 625-8362
William B. Gleason
(Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
Biomaterials, computer modeling, drug delivery
bgleason@tc.umn.edu
(612) 626-2455
Bruce E. Hammer
(Radiology)
NMR, imaging and spectroscopy, bioreactors
hamme003@tc.umn.edu
(612) 626-8151
Ramesh Harjani*
(Electrical and Computer Engineering)
MEMS and sensor interface circuits, wireless communications circuits, analog and mixed-signal test.
harjani@ece.umn.edu
(612) 625-4032
Bin He
(Biomedical Engineering)
Biomedical imaging, Neuroengineering, Brain-Computer Interface, Bio-modeling, Bioinstrumentation, Bioelectromagnetism
binhe@umn.edu
(612) 626-1115
Robert P. Hebbel
(Medicine)
Endothelial biology and tissue engineering, iron and oxidant damage to membrane molecules
hebbe001@tc.umn.edu
(612) 624-6104
Goran Hellekant
(Physiology and Pharmacology)
Neurophysiology
ghelleka@d.umn.edu
(608) 262-1056
James E. Holte
(Electrical Engineering)
Integration of instrumentation and modeling techniques
holte@ee.umn.edu
(612) 625-0811
Wei-Shou Hu
(Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
Tissue engineering, biotechnology
acre@cems.umn.edu
(612) 626-0587
Allison Hubel
(Mechanical Engineering)
Culture and cryopreservation of engineered tissues and cellular therapeutics
hubel001@tc.umn.edu
(612) 626-4451
Susanta K. Hui*
(Therapeutic Radiology)
Tomotherapy
huixx019@umn.edu
(612) 626-4484
Paul A. Iaizzo
(Anesthesiology and Physiology)
Skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology, pathophysiology of inherited muscle disorders, human thermoregulation and biomedical correlates of wound prevention
iaizz001@tc.umn.edu
(612) 624-7912
Efrosini Kokkoli
(Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
Biomimetic Surface Science,  Biopolymers, Biomaterials,  Targeted Drug Delivery
kokkoli@cems.umn.edu
612-626-1185
Robert LaPrade*
(Biomechanics/Orthopaedics/Tissue Engineering)
Complex knee ligament injuries, posterolateral knee injuries, stem cell articular cartilage treatment
lapra001@umn.edu
(612) 625-7649
Paul C. Letourneau
(Neuroscience)
Mechanisms of cell motility, neuronal guidance and nervous system development and regeneration.
letour@lenti.med.umn.edu
(612) 624-5999 
Jack L. Lewis
(Orthopaedic Surgery and Mechanical Engineering)
Musculoskeletal biomechanics, orthopedic engineering
lewis001@tc.umn.edu
(612) 626-5021
Hubert Lim
(Biomedical Engineering)
Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience
hlim@umn.edu
(612) 626-4565
Paula M. Ludewig*
(Physical Med/Rehab)
Musculoskeletal Injury and Rehabilitation
ludew001@umn.edu
(612) 626-0420
Keith Lurie, MD*
(Medicine)
Development of new device and drug technology for resuscitation and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia; development of a pharmacological pacemaker; development of pacemaker technologies for treatment of heart failure and arrhythmias.
lurie002@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-4401
James B. McCarthy
(Laboratory Medicine & Pathology)
Characterization of cell adhesion molecules, cell motility and adhesion receptor function, control of inflammation
mccar001@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-7454
Jeffrey McCullough
(Laboratory Medicine & Pathology)
mccul001@umn.edu
(612) 626-3272
Greg Metzger
(Radiology)
MRI
gmetzger@umn.edu
612-626-2001
Joachim Mueller
(Physics)
muell053@umn.edu
612-625-4369
Tay Netoff
(Biomedical Engineering)
Neuroscience, Study of Epilepsy
tnetoff@umn.edu
(612) 625-3618
Thomas Novacheck
(Orthopaedic Surgery)
novac001@umn.edu
David J. Nuckley
(Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)
Orthopaedic biomechanics
dnuckley@umn.edu
612-624-2364
David Odde
(Biomedical Engineering)
mitosis, cell growth, microtubule dynamics
(612) 626-9980
oddex002@umn.edu
Sang-Hyun Oh
(Electrical Engineering)
Microfluidic Biotechnology, Biomedical Sensors, Biophotonics, BioMEMS
sang@umn.edu
(612) 625-0125
Hans George Othmer
(Mathematics)
cell mechanics and motility, developmental biology, dynamical systems, mathematical biology
othme001@umn.edu
(612)624-8325
Klearchos Papas
(Surgery)
papas006@umn.edu
(612) 626-0471
Richard E. Poppele
(Neuroscience)
Neurobiology, sensory-motor integration and control of posture and movement
dick@umn.edu
(612) 625-7623
Rajesh Rajamani
(Mechanical Engineering)
MEMS Sensors, Biomedical Devices, Battery-less Wireless Sensing Applications
rajamani@me.umn.edu
(612) 626-7961
David Redish
(Neuroscience)
Neurobiology, computational modeling, behavioral neuroscience, signal processing, analyses of distributed representations
redish@ahc.umn.edu
(612) 626-3738
Osha Roopnarine
(Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
Spectroscopic and functional studies of myosin mutations that cause heart disease
roopn001@umn.edu
(612) 626-8470
Jonathan N. Sachs
(Biomedical Engineering)
Cellular membrane structure, biophysics
jnsachs@umn.edu
(612) 624-7158
Michael Schwartz
(Orthopaedic Surgery, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare)
Biomechanics, gait analysis
schwa021@tc.umn.edu
(612) 229-3929
Wei Shen
(Biomedical Engineering)
Biomaterials, Cellular Microenvironments, Cell-enrironment interactions, Biomolecular Engineering
shenx104@umn.edu
(612) 624-3771
Ron Siegel
(Pharmaceutics and Biomedical Engineering)
Drug Delivery, Hydrogels, MEMS
siege017@umn.edu
(612) 624-6164
Narendra Simha
(Biomedical Engineering)
Tissue Mechanics
simha@umn.edu
(612) 626-8055
Fotis Sotiropoulos
(Civil Engineering)
Computational Fluid Dynamics
fotis@umn.edu
(612) 624-2022
Ephraim M. Sparrow
(Mechanical Engineering)
Heat transfer and fluid mechanics
esparrow@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-5502
Alena Talkachova
(Biomedical Engineering)
Cardiac Electrophysiology
(612) 626-2719
talkacal@umn.edu
Doris Taylor
(Center for Cardiovascular Repair)
dataylor@umn.edu
(612) 626-1216
David Thomas
(Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
Molecular Dynamics of Energy Transduction in Muscle
ddt@umn.edu
612-625-0957
Gerald Timm
(Urological Surgery)
Artificial Muscle Development
timmx025@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-0977
Bob Tranquillo
(Biomedical Engineering)
Cardiovascular and neural tissue engineering
tranquillo@cems.umn.edu
(612) 625-6868
Charles Truwit*
(Radiology, Pediatrics)
MR-guided therapies, MR-compatible biomedical devices (mechanical, thermal radio frequency, remote and robotic), MR-compatible motors and servos
truwit@tc.umn.edu
(612) 626-2365
Kamil Ugurbil
(Radiology)
ugurb001@umn.edu
612-626-9591
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
(Radiology)
Medical Imaging
vande094@umn.edu
612-626-2001
Thomas Vaughan
(Radiology)
Biomedical instrumentation, electromagnetics design and modeling, magnetic resonance imaging
vaugh020@umn.edu
(612) 626-2001
Chun Wang
(Biomedical Engineering)
Biomaterials, drug and gene delivery, tissue engineering
wangx504@umn.edu
(612) 626-3990
Timothy Wiedmann
(Pharmaceutics)
Aerosol drug delivery for the prevention and treatment of respiratory disease
wiedm001@umn.edu
(612) 624-5457
Jay Zhang
(Medicine)
Cardiology, NMR spectroscopic study of myocardial bioenergetics, cardiac applications of MRS and MRI, heart energetics
zhang047@tc.umn.edu
(612) 625-7403
 

* Can advise M.S. but not Ph.D. students