Graduate Faculty
| Jerome H. Abrams (Surgery) Modeling non-linear physiologic systems abrams.jerome@minneapolis.va.gov (612) 725-2065 |
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 |
Robert J. Bache (Medicine) Cardiology, biorheology, NMR, vascular biology bache001@tc.umn.edu (612) 625-2454 |
| Alan Bank (Medicine) arterial elastic mechanics, biomechanics of atherosclerotic plaque rupture, congestive heart failure, endothelial function bankx001@tc.umn.edu (651) 726-2758 |
Victor Barocas (Biomedical Engineering) Computational Biomechanics and Biotransport, Tissue Engineering, Ophthalmic Engineering, Microfluidics baroc001@umn.edu (612) 626-5572 |
Joan E. Bechtold |
David G. Benditt |
| John Bischof (Mechanical Engineering) Bioeat and Mass Transfer, Thermophysics and biophysics, Thermal Injury (Burn or Cryo), Cryopreservation. bischof@umn.edu (612) 625-5513 |
Michel Cramer Bornemann (Neurology) michel9626@yahoo.com 612-873-6201 |
| Michael Bowser (Chemistry) Bioanalysis, Microfluidics, Neurochemistry, In Vitro Selection bowser@chem.umn.edu (612) 624-0873 |
Frank B. Cerra (Surgery, Senior VP, Academic Health Center) Biomedical applications in human intensive-care practice cerra001@ tc.umn.edu (612) 626-4949 |
| 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 |
Jay N. Cohn (Medicine) Cardiology, biorheology cohnx001@tc.umn.edu (612) 625-5646 |
| 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 |
Martha Flanders (Neuroscience) Musculoskeletal modeling, neuromuscular control of arm movement fland001@umn.edu (612) 624-6601 |
| John E. Foker (Surgery) Prostheses, bioprosthetic cardiac valves foker001@tc.umn.edu (612) 625-0910 |
Lorraine Francis (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) Biomaterials, Ceramics Processing, Composites, Coatings lfrancis@umn.edu (612) 625-0559 |
| 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 |
Bruce E. Hammer (Radiology) NMR, imaging and spectroscopy, bioreactors hamme003@tc.umn.edu (612) 626-8151 |
Ramesh Harjani |
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 hellekant@ahabs.wisc.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 |
| Paul A. Iaizzo |
Kenneth H. Keller |
| 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 |
David G. Levitt (Physiology) Biophysics, determination of protein structure using x-ray crystallography. levit001@tc.umn.edu (612) 625-7649 |
| Jack L. Lewis (Orthopaedic Surgery and Mechanical Engineering) Musculoskeletal biomechanics, orthopedic engineering lewis001@tc.umn.edu (612) 626-5021 |
Haiying Liu (Radiology) MR-guided minimally invasive neurosurgery, neurosurgical devices for use in MROR (surgical guidance system, robotics and implantable system), stroke and tumor detection/treatment, targeted drug delivery, human brain functional imaging, intra-operative fMRI/ spectroscopic imaging. Haiying.Liu-1@tc.umn.edu (612) 626-0951 |
| 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 |
Tay Netoff |
Thomas Novacheck (Orthopaedic Surgery) novac001@umn.edu |
David Odde |
Sang-Hyun Oh |
| Klearchos Papas (Surgery) papas006@umn.edu (612) 626-0471 |
Robert P. Patterson (Physical Medicine and Rehab) Medical instrumentation, bioelectric impedance measurements, bioelectric potentials, therapeutic elec stimulation patte001@tc.umn.edu (612) 626-3308 |
| Dennis L. Polla (Electrical and Computer Engineering) polla@umn.edu (612) 626-2753 |
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 |
| Ken Roberts (Urologic Surgery/Human Anatomy) Gamete Cryopreservation, Mechanisms of Cryosurgical Tissue Abalation, Molecular and Cellular Male Reproductive Biology roberts@med.umn.edu (612) 625-9977 |
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) Biophysics/Biochemistry 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 |
| Carl S. Smith (Surgery, Hennepin County Medical Center) Neural network modeling, chaos/fractals in urologic physiology smith150@tc.umn.edu (612) 347-2811 |
Ephraim M. Sparrow (Mechanical Engineering) Heat transfer and fluid mechanics esparrow@tc.umn.edu (612) 625-5502 |
| Doris Taylor (Center for Cardiovascular Repair) dataylor@umn.edu (612) 626-1216 |
Ahmed H. Tewfik (Electrical Engineering) Signal and image processing, high-speed MRI, ultrasound imaging, image databases tewfik@ee.umn.edu (612) 625-6024 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Vaughan (Radiology) Biomedical instrumentation, electromagnetics design and modeling, magnetic resonance imaging Vaugh020@umn.edu (612) 626-2001 |
Neal F. Viemeister (Psychology) Auditory psychophysics nfv@umn.edu (612) 625-4024 |
| 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 |
| Robert Wilson (Medicine) Development of cardiovascular devices for angiography and angioplasty, and human coronary physiology wilso008@tc.umn.edu (612) 625-9100 |
Euisik Yoon (Electrical Engineering) BioMEMS, biomedical sensors and instrumentation, disposable microsystems, microfluidic chip for cellular manipulation yoon@umn.edu (612) 625-1574 |
| 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 |
Departmental Faculty
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