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: 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@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 optics for in vivo cancer detection, diagnosis and therapy monitoring
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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.
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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
- 5-8145 Medical Center
Interests: Multiphoton Microscopy, Surgical Imaging, Digital Pathology, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, 3D and molecular imaging
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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
- Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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: 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

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

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
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- james.mcgrath@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5489
- 306 Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell motility; Quantitative light microscopy
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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
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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
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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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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