People
Primary Faculty
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Awad, Hani
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Orthopaedics
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- hani_awad@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5268
- 1.8531 Medical Center
Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
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Benoit, Danielle
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Materials Science Program
Center for Musculoskeletal Research and Center for Oral Biology
Departments of Chemical Engineering, Orthopaedics, and Biomedical Genetics
Society for Biomaterials, Special Interest Groups Representative to the Board of Directors
- benoit@bme.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2698
- 308 Goergen Hall
Interests: Therapeutic Biomaterials
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, angiogenesis
Buckley, Mark
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Center for Visual Science
- mark.buckley@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4195
Interests: Viscoelasticity in soft biological tissues; Soft tissue aging, disease and repair
C
Carney, Laurel H.
- Marylou Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- laurel.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3948
- Medical Center
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; Signal processing for hearing aids
Choe, Regine
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- regine_choe@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4374
- MC 5-7233A Med Center
Interests: Diffuse optics for in vivo cancer detection, diagnosis and therapy monitoring
D
Dalecki, Diane
- Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
- diane.dalecki@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7378
- 210A Goergen Hall
Interests: Biomedical ultrasound, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound.
G
Gdowski, Greg T.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- ggdowski@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2580
- 310 Robert B. 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
- m.giacomelli@rochester.edu | (585) 276-6260
- 5-8527 Medical Center
Interests: Multiphoton Microscopy, Surgical Imaging, Digital Pathology, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, 3D and molecular imaging
K
Kuo, Catherine K.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Wilmot Cancer Center
Genetics, Development and Stem Cells Program
Materials Science Graduate Program
- Catherine.K.Kuo@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2312
- 215 Robert B. Goergen Hall
Interests: Regenerative medicine; tissue engineering; mechanobiology; biomaterials; stem cells; developmental biology; orthopaedics
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Lalor, Edmund
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Edmund_Lalor@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3077
- G9609 SMD (Dept. of Neuroscience)
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
M
Maddox, Ross
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- ross.maddox@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1835
- G9607 SMD (Dept. of Neuroscience)
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Development of electroencephalography paradigms for research and diagnosis
McAleavey, Stephen
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
- stephen.mcaleavey@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7768
- 309 Goergen Hall
Interests: Development of novel, clinically applicable ultrasound imaging techniques
McGrath, James
- 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
- 212 Hopeman
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell mechanics
S
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
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Instructor, Rochester Scholars Pre-College Program
- Kanika_Vats@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 276-4628
- 311 Goergen Hall
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Waugh, Richard E.
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Vice Provost for Research
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- waugh@bme.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3768
- 218 Robert B. Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins