Area's of Research
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BIOMATERIALS, MECHANOBIOLOGY, AND TISSUE
James Ankrum |
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Drug Delivery |
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Edward Sander |
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Wound healing Our lab - the Multi-scale Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Tissue Engineering Laboratory (3MT) - is focused on integrating experiment with theory to understand the dynamic and multi-scale mechanical interplay between cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in forming and remodeling tissues. Multiscale mechanical interactions are scale-spanning physical interactions between cells, the extracellular matrix (ECM), and the tissue, and they are critical to all phases of a tissue’s life cycle (i.e., development, growth, homeostasis, aging, and disease). Learn More |
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| Secondary faculty members in Cellular Engineering: Mahmoud Abou Alaiwa, Jose Assouline, John Engelhardt, Amy Lee, Steven Lentz, Alan Moy, Aliasger Salem, Richard Smith, David Stoltz | |||
CARDIOVASCULAR BIOMECHANICS
Suresh M.L. Raghavan |
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BioMOST The mission of the BioMechanics Of Soft Tissues (BioMOST) division is to contribute to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the soft tissue structures in the human body by drawing upon principles in engineering mechanics. The division employs biomechanical experimentation, mathematical modeling, and computational simulations to address issues of interest in the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. Learn more |
Sarah Vigmostad |
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Coronary blood flow dynamics; heart valve mechanics; cardiovascular implant design and analysis; RBC dynamics for analysis of blood damage; vocal cord dynamics |
REGENERATIVE ENGINEERING
Kristan Worthington |
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Tissue engineering; nanotechnology |
Michael A. Mackery |
Live cell imaging; modeling biomedical reaction pathways in living cells |
COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS
Terry A. Braun |
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Genetics; bioinformatics and computational genetics; macular degeneration |
Thomas L. Casavant |
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Bioinformatics; computational biology; genome sequence analysis; software tools for human disease mutation identification |
Michael Schnieders
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Our lab is focused on molecular biophysics theory and high performance computational algorithms that are needed to reduce the time and cost of engineering drugs and organic biomaterials. A complementary goal is to help open the door to personalized medicine by developing tools to map genetic information onto molecular phenotypes. Learn more |
HUMAN SIMULATION & COMPUTATIONAL BIOMECHANICS
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Karim Abdel-Malek |
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Human simulation: human systems integration; injury prediction; human modeling; virtual reality; personal protective equipment simulation; sports simulation |
IMAGING AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Sajan Goud Lingala |
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The Laboratory of Quantitative and Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging focuses on the development of novel MRI acquisition, reconstruction, and processing methods that enables rapid and informative MRI applications. Current application areas include dynamic MRI of moving organs (eg. upper-airway dynamics during speaking, free breathing cardiopulmonary MRI), and tumor characterization using quantitative MRI biomarkers. |
Joseph M. Reinhardt
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My lab focuses on using unique imaging protocols, image processing and image analysis, and machine learning to understand the respiratory system. We use CT imaging to study normal lung anatomy and biomechanics and to observe the changes that occur during diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in an effort to better understand disease progression and build predictive models that might be used to guide therapy. |
MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOMECHANICS
Nicole M. Grosland |
Spinal biomechanics; total joint arthroplasty; patient/ subject-specific model development; finite element meshing techniques |
Tae-Hong Lim |
Spine biomechanics; effect of mechanical loads on the cellular activities in the intervertebral discs; discogenic low back pain; mathematical modeling of spinal muscles |
David G. Wilder |
Whole body vibration; spine biomechanics; injury prevention; ergonomics; international standards development |
