Primary Faculty
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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: Soft tissue biomechanics, surgical biomechanics, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, novel imaging techniques to characterize soft tissue properties
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Carney, Laurel H.
- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- Laurel_Carney@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 276-3948
- 5-6438 Medical Center
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids
Castañeda, Benjamín
- Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Development of Point-of-Care Technologies for resource limitted settings. Development of ultrasound-based imaging diagnostic techniques.
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 optical methods based on near infared light illumination for disease detection and therapy monitoring in brain, bone, and breast
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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 imaging and therapy, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound
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Gdowski, Greg T.
- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
- Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- ggdowski@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2580
- 310 Goergen Hall
Interests: Technology commercialization, start-up ventures, neural circuitry and information processing, and computational neuroscience
Giacomelli, Michael
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Optics
- m.giacomelli@rochester.edu
- 5-8145 Medical Center
Interests: Multiphoton microscopy, surgical imaging, high throughput imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, high-speed analog and optoelectronics, design of microscopic and medical imaging systems
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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.
Hill, Cherice Natasha
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- chill40@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4775
- 309 Goergen
Interests: Multi-scale biomechanics of the human temporomandibular and lower extremity joints with a particular focus on diverse populations
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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: Cell mechanics and mechanotransduction, mechanosensitive ion channels, therapeutic strategies for musculoskeletal disease and joint pain
Lerner, Amy L.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering - Academic Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- amy.lerner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7847
- 307 Goergen Hall
Interests: Orthopaedic bio-mechanics, cornea mechanics, cartilage mechanics, medical image- based finite element modeling, knee biomechanics
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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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: Instrumentation, signal processing, ultrasound imaging, motion tracking, elasticity imaging methods, ultrasound echo models
McGrath, James
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- james.mcgrath@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5489
- 306 Goergen Hall
Interests: Microphysiological systems, nanomembranes for diagnostics, and microfluidics
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Seidman, Scott
- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering & 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
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Vats, Kanika
- Associate Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
Instructor, Rochester Scholars Pre-College Program
- Kanika_Vats@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 276-4628
- 316 Goergen Hall
Interests: Biomedical nanotechnology, biomimetic membranes, cell-material interactions
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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