Full Directory
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Adamo, Joan
- Director, Regulatory Support Services, CTSI
- joan_adamo@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-0742
Interests: Regulatory Science; guidance for researchers who are planning studies regulated by the FDA
Anand, Ajay
- Associate Professor of Data Science
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Deputy Director, Georgen Institute of Data Science
- ajay.anand@rochester.edu | (585) 276--314
Interests: Ultrasound signal processing; Model-based parameter estimation; Novel clinical ultrasound imaging techniques; Biomedical data analytics
Awad, Hani
- Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Donald and Mary Clark Professorship of Orthopaedics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- hani_awad@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5268
- 1.8531 Medical Center
Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
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Baran, Tim
- Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
Assistant Professor of Optics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- timothy.baran@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5340
Interests: Biomedical optics; photodynamic therapy; medical image processing
Benoit, Danielle
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- benoit@bme.rochester.edu | (585) 273--269
Interests: Therapeutic Biomaterials
Berger, Andrew J.
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- ajberger@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4724
- 405 Goergen Hall
Interests: Biomedical Optics; Optics Education
Beyene, Mahllet
- CMTI Graduate Program Coordinator
- mbeyene@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2353
- 204 Goergen Hall
Brown III, Edward
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
- edward_brown@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5918
- 5-7224A Medical Center
Interests: Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy, novel in vivo imaging and measurement techniques, tumor biology
Buckley, Mark
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Center for Visual Science
- mark.buckley@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4195
- 317 Goergen Hall
Interests: Viscoelasticity in soft biological tissues; Soft tissue aging, disease and repair
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Carney, Laurel H.
- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- laurel.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3948
- 5-7617 Medical Center
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; Signal processing for hearing aids
Chess, Patricia
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- patricia_chess@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2972
Interests: Effects of strain on pulmonary epithelium
Choe, Regine
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- regine.choe@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4374
- MC 5-7233A Med Center
Interests: Diffuse optics for in vivo cancer detection, diagnosis and therapy monitoring
Clark, Robert
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- rclark@rochester.edu
- 214 Hopeman
Interests: Dynamic systems; Measurement and control; Single-molecule mechanics; Bio-nano-manufacturing; Scaffolds for tissue engineering
Contestabile, Deb
- Marketing, Communications & Outreach Manager
- deborah.contestabile@rochester.edu | (585) 274-1187
- 204 Goergen Hall
Crane, Benjamin
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngolog
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Interests: The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception
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Dalecki, Diane
- Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Director, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
- diane.dalecki@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7378
- 308 Goergen Hall
Interests: Biomedical ultrasound, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound.
Dean, David
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- david_dean@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3933
Interests: Gene Therapy
DeAngelis, Greg
- George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Center for Visual Science
- gdeangelis@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8677
Interests: Visual neuroscience; Multi-sensory integration; Neural coding; Linking neurons to perception
DeLouise, Lisa A.
- Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- lisa_delouise@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1810
Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin
Dickerson, Ian
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Ian_Dickerson@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1040
Interests: Carbon Nanotube-Mediated Gene Transfer; Neuropeptide Signal Transduction; Protein-Protein Interactions
Dogra, Vikram
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Urology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- vikram_dogra@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4388
Interests: Photoacoustic imaging for medical diagnosis ; Application of high resolution ultrasound for bladder tumor detection and follow-up; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for hemostasis
Doyley, Marvin
- Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology) - Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- m.doyley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3774
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging
Duric, Nebojsa
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Vice Chair for Research, Department of Imaging Sciences
Dylag, Andrew
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- andrew_dylag@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6803
Dziorny, Adam
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- adam_dziorny@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8138
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Eagan, Gina
- Student Programs Assistant
- gina.eagan@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2090
- 204 Robert B. Goergen Hall
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Flax, Jonathan
- Research Assistant Professor of Urology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Frisch, Benjamin J.
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Benjamin_frisch2@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7148
Interests: The role of inflammation in bone marrow microenvironmental dysfunction; interactions of myelogenous leukemia with the bone marrow microenvironment; in vitro modeling of the bone marrow microenvironment
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Ganeshan, Veena
- Senior Laboratory Engineer
- veena.ganeshan@rochester.edu | (585) 276-6837
- 311 Goergen Hall
Gdowski, Greg T.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- ggdowski@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2580
- 310 Goergen Hall
Interests: Teaching Area — The process of commercialization of medical technologies from identifying unmet clinical needs to the design, fabrication, marketing, regulatory, and intellectual property aspects of creating medical technologies and devices
Giacomelli, Michael
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Optics
- m.giacomelli@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8145
- 5-8527 Medical Center
Interests: Multiphoton Microscopy, Surgical Imaging, Digital Pathology, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, 3D and molecular imaging
Gildner, Candace
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- candace_gildner@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4113
Gira, Martin
- Senior Laboratory Engineer
- mgira@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3715
- 224a Goergen Hall (office)
Glading, Angela
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- angela_glading@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5750
Interests: Role of cell-cell contact in regulating cellular function in both the normal and disease state
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Henry, Kenneth S.
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- kenneth_henry@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4851
Herrera-Perez, Marisol
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- marisol.herreraperez@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2312
- 215 Goergen Hall
Interests: Tissue self-organization, biophysics of cell shape and motility, morphogenesis, mechanics of development, control of cell communication.
Hocking, Denise
- Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix
Howard, Thomas
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- thoward@ece.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding
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Lalor, Edmund
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Edmund_Lalor@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3077
- 2.B203A Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
Interests: Human sensory neurophysiology; Brain-computer interfacing; Computational neuroscience; Neural encoding of natural sounds; Sensory processing in psychiatric and developmental disorders
Lee, Whasil
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Whasil_Lee@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4631
- 4-8553 Medical Center
Interests: Musculoskeletal cell mechanics, Mechanosensitive Ion channels, Knee joint tissue development, aging, disease and repair
Lerner, Amy L.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Academic Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- amy.lerner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7847
- 307 Goergen Hall
Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics, medical image-based finite element modeling, knee biomechanics, medical device design, cornea mechanics
Lipari , Bonnie
- Senior Research and Grants Administrator
- bonnie.lipari@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0453
- 209 Goergen Hall
Loiselle, Alayna E.
- Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- alayna_loiselle@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7239
Lomakina, Elena
- Research Assistant Professor
- elena.lomakina@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0437
- 213 Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins
Luebke, Anne E.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- anne_luebke@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1635
- 6-8547 Medical Center
Interests: Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels
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Maddox, Ross
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- ross.maddox@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1835
- 2-B203B Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Auditory brainstem response; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Audiologic diagnosis
Marple, Taimi
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator
- taimi.marple@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4754
- 206 Goergen Hall
McAleavey, Stephen
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound - Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- stephen.mcaleavey@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7768
- 210A Goergen Hall
Interests: Development of novel, clinically applicable ultrasound imaging techniques
McGrath, James
- Dean's Professor
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- james.mcgrath@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5489
- 306 Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell motility; Quantitative light microscopy
Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad
- Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- mohammad_mehr@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7148
Interests: The primary focus of the PURE lab at the University of Rochester is to develop novel, hybrid, and ultrasound-based diagnostic methods, and define the clinical utility of the developed technologies as it applies to detection, diagnosis, and therapy of various pathologies.
Merigan, William
- Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor, Center for Visual Science
- wmerigan@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275--487
Interests: Imaging the function of retinal neurons using calcium indicators; Evaluating vision restoration by optogenetics, stem cells or gene therapy
Mesfin, Addisu
- Professor of Orthopaedics
Professor of Public Health Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neurosurgery
- addisu_mesfin@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5321
Meyer, Anne
- Associate Professor of Biology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- anne.meyer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9290
Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; survival strategies of bacteria; organization of bacterial DNA
Miller, Benjamin
- Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
- benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9805
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
Mix, Doran
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- dmix@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 279-5100
Interests: Elastographic-based imaging of AAA; Fenestrated endograft
Moore, Duncan T.
- Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor in Optical Engineering Science
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Business Administration
- moore@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 524-8
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
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Nam, Jong-Hoon
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- jong-hoon.nam@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4555
- 203 Hopeman
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell mechanics
Nedergaard, Maiken
- Professor of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuromedicine
Professor of Neurosurgery - Co-Director, Center for Translational Neuromedicine
- nedergaard@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4595
Interests: The basic biology of glial cells in the CNS and the role of astrocytes in several neurological diseases, including stroke, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, tremor, and ALS. Research is aimed at defining new strategies for the treatment of neurological diseases that target astrocytic dysfunction
Norman-Haignere, Samuel
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- samuel_norman-haignere@URMC.Rochester.edu | (646) 256--490
Interests: Auditory neuroscience and perception; Neural encoding of speech and music; Statistical modeling of neural responses; Temporal integration; Human intracranial recordings; Functional MRI; Cross-species comparisons
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Parker, Kevin J.
- William F. May Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology) - Dean Emeritus, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
- kevin.parker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3294
- 724 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Medical Imaging; 3D and 4D Imaging; CT, MRI, and ultrasound; Multi-dimensional processing and display techniques; Doppler Imaging Techniques; Sonoelasticity; Digital Halftoning; Blue Noise Mask ; Color Halftoning
Perucchio, Renato
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
- rlp@me.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4071
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
Principe, Judy
- Graduate Program Coordinator
- judith.principe@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3891
- 207 Goergen Hall
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Rolland, Jannick
- Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Professor of Optics and Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science - Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics
Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering
- rolland@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 752-1013
- 505 Goergen Hall
Interests: Optical Aberration Theory; Freeform Optics; Metasurfaces; Metaform; Optical System Design; Optical Metrology; Illumination; Instrumentation and System Engineering; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE); Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR); Head-Worn Displays; Heads-up Displays
Romanski, Lizabeth
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Liz_Romanski@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 273-1469
Interests: Understanding how social communication information is processed, integrated and remembered in the brain
Rubens, Deborah
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Vice Chair, Faculty and Professional Development, Department of Imaging Sciences
- deborah_rubens@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8365
Interests: Ultrasound sonoelasticity; 3-dimensional imaging; Contrast agents
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Schallek, Jesse B.
- Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science
- jschall3@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4848
Schieber, Marc H.
- Professor of Neurology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor, Center for Visual Science
Interests: Neural Control of Individuated Finger Movements
Schwarz, Douglas Mitchell
- Senior Analyst/Programmer
- douglas_schwarz@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-3930
- 5-7618 Medical Center
Schwarz, Edward
- Professor of Orthopaedics
Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics
Professor of Medicine, Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Urology - Director , Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Interests: Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Seidman, Scott
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
Center for Visual Science
- scott_seidman@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3932
- 216 Goergen Hall
Interests: Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration
Slane, Laura
- Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- laura.slane@rochester.edu | (585) 276-6872
Small, Eric M.
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- eric_small@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-7706
Stone, Jonathan J.
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- jonathan_stone@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 225-5767
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Uddin, Md Nasir
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neuroimaging; Iron and Myelin Mapping; Microstructure Imaging; MR Angiography; Neuroinflammation
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Vats, Kanika
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Instructor, Rochester Scholars Pre-College Program
- Kanika_Vats@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 276-4628
- 316 Goergen Hall
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Wan, Jiandi
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
- University of Rochester Medical Center; Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis
Waugh, Richard E.
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
- richard.waugh@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3768
- 218 Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins
Williams, David R.
- William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Director, Center for Visual Science
- david@cvs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8672
- 270 Meliora Hall
Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics
Wilson, Nicole
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor or Pediatrics
- nicole_wilson@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4435
Wismueller, Axel
- Professor of Imaging Sciences, of Biomedical Engineering, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Axel_Wismueller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 613-2399
- MCA 2-2214 Medical Center
Interests: Mathematical algorithms for computational analysis; Pattern recognition in clinical real-world applications
Wu, Chia-Lung
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- chia-lung_wu@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1335
Interests: Bioengineering, cellular biology, next-generation sequencing techniques and genome editing tools
Wu, J.H. David
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
Interests: Biochemical Engineering, Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology
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Yao, Zhenqiang
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor or Dentistry
- zhenqiang_yao@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4129
Interests: Basic and translational studies of musculoskeletal diseases and breast cancer
Yeh, Shu-Chi
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- ShuChi_Yeh@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 275-1632
Interests: Intravital imaging-based approaches for direct visualization, quantification, and molecular profiling of the local regulatory machineries that harbor the skeletal, hematopoietic, and malignant stem cells
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Zavislan, James M.
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor 2018-2021
- zavislan@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9819
- 414 Goergen Hall
Interests: Optical Engineering; Biomedical Optical Systems
Zhang, Xinping
- Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- xinping_zhang@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7928
Interests: Understanding bone tissue repair using molecular, genetic, imaging and engineering approaches
Zhong, Jianhui
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging