| BME PhD Program Faculty |
| The BME Program Faculty includes all faculty
members who can advise PhD students in the BME Graduate Program.
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Mark G. Allen
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation
Joseph M. Pettit Professor
Regents Professor |
Phone:
404-894-8884 Fax:
404-894-2776 Location:
GT: MiRC 120, Carnegie Building 027 Email:
mark.allen@ece.gatech.edu Research Areas:
micromachining, microsensor and microactuator fabrication, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
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Julia E. Babensee
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-385-0130 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: IBB - 1315 Email:
julia.babensee@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
immunology,tissue engineering, biomaterials, drug delivery, dendritic cells |
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Gang Bao
Professor Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering College of Engineering Distinguished Professor |
Phone:
404-385-0373 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: M Building - 4100M Email:
gang.bao@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Biomolecular Engineering, Bionanotechnology, Molecular Imaging, Molecular Biomechanics |
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Gilda Barabino
Professor |
Phone:
404-385-5016 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 2108 Email:
gilda.barabino@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
sickle cell adhesion, cellular engineering, tissue engineering and bioreactors |
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Thomas Barker
Assistant Professor
Director, BME in the Global Economy Study/Work Abroad Program
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Phone:
404-385-5039 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME 2108 Email:
thomas.barker@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions, ECM-directed cell differentiation in regeneration and pathogenesis, cell and molecular mchanobiology, ECM-inspired biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications |
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Ravi Bellamkonda
Professor
Deputy Director of Research, GTEC (NSF funded ERC)
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Professor |
Phone:
404-385-5038 Fax:
404-385-5044 Location:
GT: BME - 3108 Email:
ravi@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Neural Tissue Engineering, Targeted Drug Delivery for Brain Tumor Therapy, Peripheral & Central Nerve Regeneration, Electrode-Brain Interfaces, Long circulating contrast agents, Polymeric Biomaterials |
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Paul J. Benkeser
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Professor |
Phone:
404-894-2912 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 2120 Email:
paul.benkeser@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Ultrasonic bioengineering, Biomedical signal and image processing, Biomedical engineering education |
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Mark Borodovsky
Director
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
Regents' Professor |
Phone:
404-894-8432 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT:Whitaker 4102 Email:
borodovsky@gatech.edu Research Areas:
bioinformatics |
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Barbara D. Boyan
Professor
Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
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Phone:
404-385-4108 Fax:
404-894-2291 Location:
GT: IBB - 1108 Email:
barbara.boyan@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
tissue engineering |
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Marijn Brummer
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-727-5882 Fax:
404-712-7904 Location:
EU: EU Hospital - AG15 Email:
mbrumme@emory.edu Research Areas:
radiology |
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Robert Butera
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-894-2935 Fax:
404-894-5044 Location:
GT: BME - 3104 Email:
robert.butera@ece.gatech.edu Research Areas:
cellular/systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience, electrophysiological instrumentation |
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Elliot Chaikof MD
Professor |
Phone:
404-727-8413 Fax:
404-727-3660 Location:
EU: WMB - 5105 Email:
echaiko@emory.edu Research Areas:
biomaterials, cell transplantation, cardiovascular tissue engineering, cellular biomechanics |
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Young-Hui Chang
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-894-9993 Fax:
404-894-9982 Location:
GT: Centennial Research Building 354 Email:
yh.chang@ap.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Comparative biomechanics, Sensorimotor integration during legged locomotion, Passive dynamics during legged locomotion |
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Marie E. Csete
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-712-2588 Fax:
404-712-2585 Location:
EU: 420 Email:
marie_csete@emoryhealthcare.org Research Areas:
anesthesiology |
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Michael E. Davis
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-727-9858 Fax:
404-727-9873 Location:
EU - 2009 Email:
michael.davis@bme.emory.edu Research Areas:
Cardiac regeneration, oxidative stress, protein and cell therapy, biomaterials applications |
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Stephen P. DeWeerth
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Professor |
Phone:
404-894-4738 Fax:
404-894-2295 Location:
GT: BME - 3107 Email:
steve.deweerth@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Neuromorphic engineering, Hybrid neural microsystems, Modeling of biological sensorimotor systems, Analog VLSI circuit design, Nonlinear dynamical systems, Distance learning and remote laboratories |
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Samuel Dudley MD
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-329-4626 Fax:
404-329-2211 Location:
VA Medical Center 111B Email:
sdudley@emory.edu Research Areas:
Physiology |
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Timothy Q. Duong
Associate Professor
Director, Yerkes Imaging Center
Associate Professor of Neurology & Radiology, Emory
Research Chemist, Atlanta VA Medical Center
Program Faculty, Neuroscience, Emory
Faculty, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience |
Phone:
404-727-9734 Fax:
404-712-9917 Location:
EU: Yerkes Research Center Email:
tduong@emory.edu Research Areas:
functional MRI, stroke imaging, high-resolution retinal imaging, diffusion tensor imaging |
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Dale Edmondson
Professor |
Phone:
404-727-5972 Fax:
404-727-2738 Location:
EU: Rollins Research Center - 4021 Email:
dedmond@bimcore.emory.edu Research Areas:
Physical biochemistry; oxidation-reduction enzymes |
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Suzanne Eskin
Principal Research Scientist |
Phone:
404-385-5158 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 1210 Email:
suzanne.eskin@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
vascular biology, cardiovascular tissue engineering, gene expression of vascular cells |
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Tracy Faber
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-712-7915 Fax:
404-727-3488 Location:
EU: WMB 1203 Email:
tracy_faber@emory.org Research Areas:
imaging |
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Ernest V. Garcia
Professor & Director of Radiology |
Phone:
404-712-7422 Fax:
404-712-7961 Location:
EU: E - 163 Email:
ernest_garcia@emoryhealthcare.org Research Areas:
imaging |
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Andres J. Garcia
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-894-9384 Fax:
404-894-2291 Location:
GT: IBB - 2314 Email:
andres.garcia@me.gatech.edu Research Areas:
cell adhesion to biomaterials, orthopaedic cellular and tissue engineering |
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Don P. Giddens
Dean, College of Engineering Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering & Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar |
Phone:
404-894-6825 Fax:
404-894-0168 Location:
GT: BME - 3112 Email:
don.giddens@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
fluid mechanics applied to cardiovascular disease, Doppler velocimetry and ultrasound, hemodynamics |
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Rudolph “Rudy” Gleason
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-7218 Fax:
404-385-1397 Location:
GT: IBB 2305 Email:
rudolph.gleason@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
vascular mechanics, soft tissue growth and remodeling, and tissue engineering |
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Robert E. Guldberg
Professor Associate Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience |
Phone:
404-894-6589 Fax:
404-894-2291 Location:
GT: IBB - 2311 Email:
robert.guldberg@me.gatech.edu Research Areas:
tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, biomechanics, osteoarthritis, skeletal fragility, microcomputed tomography imaging |
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Shawn Hochman
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-712-3131 Fax:
404-727-2648 Location:
EU: 644 Email:
shochm2@emory.edu Research Areas:
spinal cord functional systems, molecular biology |
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Xiaoping Hu
Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging |
Phone:
404-712-2615 Fax:
404-712-2707 Location:
EU: HA - E307 Email:
xhu3@emory.edu Research Areas:
Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, functional MRI,image reconstruction and processing, molecular imaging |
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Dieter Jaeger
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-727-8139 Fax:
404-727-2880 Location:
EU: Rollins Research Center - 2129 Email:
djaeger@emory.edu Research Areas:
Modeling of neurons and circuits in cerebellum and basal ganglia. Brain slice and in vivo electrophysiology of said neurons and circuits.
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Hanjoong Jo
Professor Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor in Biomedical Engineering |
Phone:
404-712-9654 Fax:
404-727-9873 Location:
EU: WMB - 308 Email:
hanjoong.jo@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Atherosclerosis, Microgravity-induced vascular dysfunction, Role of blood flow on endothelial cell biology |
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Ronald Joyner
Professor |
Phone:
404-727-5747 Fax:
404-727-6024 Location:
EU: Childrens Research Center - 2040 Email:
rjoyner@cellbio.emory.edu Research Areas:
electrophysiology and molecular biology of the heart |
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Andrew Karellas
Professor |
Phone:
404-712-2411 Fax:
404-712-5813 Location:
EU: Winship Cancer Institute - Suite 5018 Email:
akarell@emory.edu Research Areas:
Breast imaging, digital mammography, tomosynthesis |
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Shella Keilholz
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-727-2433 Fax:
404-727-9873 Location:
EU: WMB - 2009B Email:
shella.keilholz@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Magnetic resonance imaging, Functional MRI, Neural connectivity, Learning and plasticity |
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Charlie Kemp
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-8192 Fax:
404-385-7452 Location:
GT: 828 West Peachtree Street - Room 220F Email:
charlie.kemp@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
healthcare robotics, autonomous robot manipulation, human-robot interaction |
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Melissa Lambeth Kemp
Assistant Professor Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Professor |
Phone:
404-385-6341 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: IBB 1314 Email:
melissa.kemp@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
systems biology in the context of cancer immunology, computational modeling of intracellular metabolic and signaling pathways |
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Andrew Kowalczyk
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-727-8517 Fax:
404-727-6256 Location:
EU: 405 M Email:
akowalc@emory.edu Research Areas:
Dermatology and Cell Biology |
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Michelle C. LaPlaca
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-385-0629 Fax:
404-385-5044 Location:
GT: BME - 3109 Email:
michelle.laplaca@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, neural tissue engineering, injury biomechanics, neural interfacing, cognitive impairment associated with brain injury and aging
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Joseph M. Le Doux
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-385-0632 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: IBB - 2315 Email:
joe.ledoux@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
gene therapy, drug resistance immunotherapy, virus and cell engineering, virus-cell interactions
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Robert H. Lee
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-894-4484 Fax:
404-894-2295 Location:
GT: BME - 3103 Email:
rhlee@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
cellular neurophysiology, computer modeling of neurons |
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Robert Liu
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-727-5274 Fax:
404-727-2880 Location:
EU: Rollins Research Center - 2131 Email:
robert.liu@emory.edu Research Areas:
auditory systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience, neural coding, neuroethology, acoustic communication |
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Hang Lu
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-894-8473 Fax:
404-894-4200 Location:
GT: ES&T - 1312 Email:
Hang.Lu@chbe.gatech.edu Research Areas:
microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, neurobiology, cell biology |
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Todd C. McDevitt
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-6647 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
UA Whitaker 2102 Email:
todd.mcdevitt@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Cell and tissue engineering, stem cell engineering, biomaterials |
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Larry V. McIntire
The Wallace H. Coulter Chair & Professor |
Phone:
404-894-5057 Fax:
404-385-5028 Location:
GT: BME - 2116 ; EU: WMB - 2001 Email:
larry.mcintire@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Bioengineering aspects of vascular biology, thrombosis, inflammatory response, and infectious disease; cellular engineering |
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Valeria Tohver Milam
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-894-2845 Fax:
404-894-9140 Location:
GT: Love Bldg., Room 354 Email:
valeria.milam@mse.gatech.edu Research Areas:
colloid-based biomaterials and cellular supports, DNA-driven assembly |
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Niren Murthy
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-5145 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: IBB - 3303 Email:
niren.murthy@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
drug delivery, polymer chemistry, immunology, vaccine development |
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Robert M. Nerem
Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine
Institute Professor,
Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
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Phone:
404-894-2768 Fax:
404-894-2291 Location:
GT: IBB - 1106 Email:
robert.nerem@ibb.gatech.edu Research Areas:
atherosclerosis, hemodynamics, vascular endothelial cells, cellular and tissue |
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Richard Nichols
Professor Chair of Applied Physiology at Georgia Tech |
Phone:
404-894-3986 Fax:
404-894-9982 Location:
GT: Weber - 113B Email:
trn@gatech.edu Research Areas:
Mechanisms of motor coordination: role of sensory feedback for posture and locomotion, musculoskeletal biomechanics.
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Shuming Nie
Professor and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Director for Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center
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Phone:
404-712-8595 Fax:
404-727-3567 Location:
EU: E - 209 Email:
snie@emory.edu Research Areas:
BioMEMS/bionanotechnology, bioimaging and biomaterials for tissue engineering |
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John Oshinski
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-727-5894 Fax:
404-712-5948 Location:
EU: EUH - AG10 Email:
jnoshin@emory.edu Research Areas:
cardiovascular engineering, medical imaging |
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Steve Potter
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-385-2989 Fax:
404-385-5044 Location:
GT: BME - 3110 Email:
steve.potter@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
study of learning and memory in vitro, development of more brain-like computing systems |
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Mark R. Prausnitz
Professor |
Phone:
404-894-5135 Fax:
404-894-2866 Location:
GT: IBB - 1312 Email:
mark.prausnitz@che.gatech.edu Research Areas:
transdermal, ocular and intracellular delivery of drugs, vaccines, and genes; bioMEMS; ultrasound
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Astrid Prinz
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-727-5191 Fax:
404-727-2880 Location:
EU: Wayne Rollins Research Center - 2105 Email:
astrid.prinz@emory.edu Research Areas:
biology |
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Anthanassios Sambanis
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-894-2869 Fax:
404-894-2291 Location:
GT: IBB - 1306 Email:
athanassios.sambanis@che.gatech.edu Research Areas:
tissue engineering, cellular engineering, intracellular protein trafficking and secretion, cell modeling |
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Philip J. Santangelo
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-2116 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME – 4107 Email:
philip.santangelo@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
infectious disease, molecular imaging, nano-biophotonics, and optical microscopy |
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Oskar Skrinjar
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-2953 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 4105 Email:
oskar.skrinjar@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
medical imaging, image processing, computer vision, computer
graphics |
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Garrett B. Stanley
Associate Professor |
Phone:
404-385-5037 Fax:
404-385-5044 Location:
GT: BME 3102 Email:
garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Neural Coding, Neural Signal Processing, Sensory Processing,
Vision and Touch, Neural Prosthetics, Estimation and Control
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Donald Stein
Asa G. Candler Professor |
Phone:
404-712-9704 Fax:
404-727-2388 Location:
EU: 1648 Pierce Dr. NE Room 261 Email:
dstei04@emory.edu Research Areas:
traumatic brain injury, gender specific hormones, CNS plasticity |
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Allen R. Tannenbaum
Professor Julian Hightower Chair |
Phone:
404-894-0290 Fax:
404-894-7583 Location:
GT: BME - 4102 Email:
tannenba@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
medical imaging, FMRI, endoscopy, computer vision, visualization |
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W. Robert Taylor MD
Professor |
Phone:
404-727-8921 Fax:
404-727-3572 Location:
EU: WMB - 308A Email:
wtaylor@emory.edu Research Areas:
Vascular biology with an emphasis on the role of vascular inflammation in the pathogenesis of hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis. |
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Johnna S. Temenoff
Assistant Professor |
Phone:
404-385-5026 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME 2112 Email:
johnna.temenoff@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Engineering interfaces between orthopaedic tissues, Tendon and ligament tissue engineering, Development of novel polymeric biomaterials |
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Lena Ting
Professor |
Phone:
404-894-5216 Fax:
404-385-5044 Location:
GT: BME - 3105 Email:
lena.ting@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
biomechanics and neural control of movement |
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Brani Vidakovic
Professor |
Phone:
404-385-7246 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME 2101 Email:
brani@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Statistics |
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Raymond P. Vito
Professor Vice Provost, Graduate and Undergraduate Studies |
Phone:
404-894-2792 Fax:
404-894-1658 Location:
GT: IBB - 2308 Email:
raymond.vito@me.gatech.edu Research Areas:
soft tissue mechanics, biomechanical design |
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Eberhard Voit
Professor David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems |
Phone:
404-385-5057 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 4103 Email:
eberhard.voit@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
Biomedical Systems,Metabolic Pathways, Biochemical Systems Theory, S-systems |
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May Dongmei Wang
Assistant Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
Director of Biocomputing and Bioinformatics Core in Emory-Georgia Tech Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence |
Phone:
404-385-2954 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 4106 Email:
maywang@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
biomedical informatics, biomedical image analysis, biological and medical data visualization, telemedicine |
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David W. Wright, M.D., F.A.C.E.P
Assistant Professor
Director, Emergency Medicine Research Center
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Phone:
404-616-6010 Fax:
404-616-6182 Location:
EU: Steiner Bldg Rm 112 Email:
david.wright@emory.edu Research Areas:
neuroinjury, sports concussions, cognitive impairment, neuroprotection and neuroplasticity, medical technology development |
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Ajit Yoganathan
Regents' Professor Associate Chair for Research The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering |
Phone:
404-894-2849 Fax:
404-894-4243 Location:
GT: BME - 2119 Email:
ajit.yoganathan@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:
cardiovascular fluid mechanics, artificial heart valves, Doppler ultrasound, MRI, blood rheology |
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Cheng Zhu
Regents' Professor Associate Chair for International Programs |
Phone:
404-894-3269 Fax:
404-894-2291 Location:
GT: IBB 3312 Email:
cheng.zhu@me.gatech.edu Research Areas:
cell/molecular mechanics, application to immunology and tumor biology |
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