People
Primary Faculty
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Awad, Hani
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Orthopaedics
- hani_awad@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5268
- 1.8531 Medical Center
Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
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Benoit, Danielle
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
UR Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute
- benoit@bme.rochester.edu | (585) 273-2698
- 308 Goergen Hall
Interests: Therapeutic Biomaterials
Brown III, Edward
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- mark.buckley@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4195
Interests: Viscoelasticity in soft biological tissues; Soft tissue aging, disease and repair
C
Carney, Laurel H.
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Center for Navigation and Communication Sciences
- 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
- 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 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
Genetics, Development and Stem Cells Program
Materials Science Graduate Program
- Catherine.K.Kuo@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2312
- 215 Robert B. Goergen Hall
Interests: Tissue engineering ; Orthopaedics; Stem cells; Developmental biology ; Mechanobiology ; Biomaterials
L
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
- 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 Neurobiology and Anatomy
- 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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
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
V
Vats, Kanika
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Kanika_Vats@URMC.Rochester.edu | (585) 276-4628
- 311 Goergen Hall
W
Waugh, Richard E.
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
- 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