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Adamo, Joan
Director, Regulatory Support Services, CTSI
- Telephone
- (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
- Telephone
- (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
- Office Location
- 1.8531 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5268
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Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
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Baran, Tim
Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
Assistant Professor of Optics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5340
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Interests: Biomedical optics; photodynamic therapy; medical image processing
Benoit, Danielle
Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Therapeutic Biomaterials
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Chess, Patricia
Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2972
Interests: Pulmonary biomechanics
Crane, Benjamin
Professor of Otolaryngology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
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Interests: The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception
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Dean, David
Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3933
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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
- Telephone
- (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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1810
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Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin
Dickerson, Ian
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1040
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Interests: Carbon Nanotube-Mediated Gene Transfer; Neuropeptide Signal Transduction; Protein-Protein Interactions
Diekwisch, Thomas
Margaret and Cy Welcher Professor in Dental Research
Professor or Dentistry
Professor of Periodontology
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Chair, Center for Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3000
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Interests: Periodontics, Orthodontics, Oral Surgery, Endodontics, Orofacial Pain and Tissue engineering
Dogra, Vikram
Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Urology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (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
- Office Location
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3774
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6803
Dziorny, Adam
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8138
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Fiebelkorn, Ian C.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275--866
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Interests: The overarching goal of the Fiebelkorn lab’s research is to understand how the brain flexibly allocates its limited processing resources to improve behavioral outcomes.
Flax, Jonathan
Research Assistant Professor of Urology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Freedman, Edward G.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1892
Interests: Understanding the neural underpinnings of sensory processing, cognitive control of behavior, and the interactions of motor control and executive functions across the human lifespan.
Frisch, Benjamin J.
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (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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Gdowski, Martha Johnson
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6592
Interests: Human Anatomy; Sensorimotor Integration in Normal and Pathological Aging
Gildner, Candace
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4113
Glading, Angela
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5750
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Interests: Role of cell-cell contact in regulating cellular function in both the normal and disease state
Gomez-Ramirez, Manuel
Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1497
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Interests: Our lab’s mission is to develop mechanistic models of how objects are perceived and manipulated with our hands.
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Haddas, Ram
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, UR Medicine Motion Analysis Laboratories
Interests: My research is dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal and neurological pathologies as well as their sequelae using Disability and Functional Outcomes Measurement (DFOMs).
Henry, Kenneth S.
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4851
Hocking, Denise
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Interests: Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix
Hollenbach, Stefanie
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7480
Interests: Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Howard, Thomas
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding
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Loiselle, Alayna E.
Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7239
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Lopatkin, Allison J.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6858
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Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology lab studying horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic resistance and microbial dynamics
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Maddox, Ross
Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Auditory brainstem response; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Audiologic diagnosis
Marcos, Susana
Nicholas George Professor of Optics
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
Director, David R Williams Center for Visual Science
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6279
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Interests: Ocular Imaging, Corneal Biomechanics, Ocular implants, Opto-mechanical modeling in the eye, Myopia, Presbyopia, Cataract, Adaptive Optics, Visual Simulation, Diagnostic technologies in ophthalmology
Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad
Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7148
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 275--487
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Interests: Imaging the function of retinal neurons using calcium indicators; Evaluating vision restoration by optogenetics, stem cells or gene therapy
Meyer, Anne
Associate Professor of Biology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9290
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
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Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
Mix, Doran
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 279-5100
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 524-8
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Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
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Nam, Jong-Hoon
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 203 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4555
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4595
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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
Nichols, Anne
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4273
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Interests: Tendon mechanobiology and the cell biology of tissue adaptation
Norman-Haignere, Samuel
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (646) 256-4905
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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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Padmanabhan, Krishnan
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science A&S
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0698
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Interests: The broad goal of the NCC Lab’s research is to understand the principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits they form, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations.
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
- Office Location
- 724 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3294
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4071
- rlp@me.rochester.edu
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
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Rolland, Jannick
Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor of 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
- Office Location
- 505 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 752-1013
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1469
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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
- Telephone
- (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
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4848
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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
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Interests: Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Slane, Laura
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (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
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7706
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Stone, Jonathan J.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (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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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
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 270 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8672
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Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics
Wilson, Nicole
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor or Pediatrics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4435
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Wismueller, Axel
Professor of Imaging Sciences, of Biomedical Engineering, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- MCA 2-2214 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 613-2399
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Interests: Mathematical algorithms for computational analysis; Pattern recognition in clinical real-world applications
Wu, J.H. David
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- j.wu@rochester.edu
Interests: Biochemical Engineering, Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology
Wu, Chia-Lung
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1335
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Interests: Bioengineering, cellular biology, next-generation sequencing techniques and genome editing tools
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Xie, Chao
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275--081
Interests: Bone repair and regeneration for critical defects caused by trauma, infection, and tumors, aiming to connect translational medicine with innovative therapies for musculoskeletal diseases
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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
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4129
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Interests: Basic and translational studies of musculoskeletal diseases and breast cancer
Yeh, Shu-Chi
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1632
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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
- Office Location
- 414 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9819
Interests: Optical Engineering; Biomedical Optical Systems
Zhang, Xinping
Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7928
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Interests: Understanding bone tissue repair using molecular, genetic, imaging and engineering approaches
Zhong, Jianhui
Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Interests: Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging