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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

	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

	Gilda Barabino Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Vice Provost for Academic Diversity	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

	Thomas Barker Assistant Professor	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 mechanobiology, ECM-inspired biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications

	Essy Behravesh Director-Instructional Lab	Phone: 404-385-4254 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME 0239 Email: e.behravesh@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas:

	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

	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

	George Biros Associate Professor	Phone: 404-385-7682 Fax: 404-385-7337 Location: GT: KACB - 1324 Email: gbiros@acm.org Research Areas: medical image analysis, inverse problems in biophysics, biological particulate flows, soft-tissue mechanics, computational mathematics

	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: bioionformatics, machine learning, biological systems modeling and prediction

	Lewis Franklin Bost Director of Design Instruction	Phone: 404-385-2115 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 3113 Email: franklin.bost@gatech.edu Research Areas: Medical Device Design and Development

	Barbara D. Boyan Professor Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Tissue Engineering Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar	Phone: 404-385-4108 Fax: 404-894-2291 Location: GT: IBB - 1108 Email: barbara.boyan@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: tissue engineering

	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

	Stephen P. DeWeerth 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

	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

	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

	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

	Hanjoong Jo Professor Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor in Biomedical Engineering	Phone: 404-712-9654 Fax: 404-727-3330 Location: EU: WMB - 308 Email: hanjoong.jo@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: mechanobiology and cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis and aortic valve disease;

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	Wendy Newstetter Director of Learning Sciences Research	Phone: 404-385-2531 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 2125 Email: wendy.newstetter@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: cognition in biomedical engineering, learning and expertise in BME, design and evaluation of innovative learning environments

	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.

	Shuming Nie Professor and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering Director for Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center	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

	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

	Manu O. Platt Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-8531 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT - IBB 1308 Email: manu.platt@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: Tissue remodeling in regenerative medicine; Microenvironmental cues modulating stem cell signaling networks

	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

	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

	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

	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

	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.

	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

	Lena Ting Associate 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

	Brani Vidakovic Professor	Phone: 404-385-7246 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME 2101 Email: brani@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: Statistics

	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

	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

	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

	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: biomechanics of cell adhesion and signaling molecules of the immune system and the vascular systems



BME PhD Program Faculty

The BME PhD Program Faculty includes all faculty members who can advise PhD students in the BME Graduate Program. Please note that all Primary Faculty members are also a part of the BME PhD Program Faculty and are not repeated below.

	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: mallen@gatech.edu Research Areas: micromachining, microsensor and microactuator fabrication, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

	Pamela T. Bhatti Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-3144 Fax: 404-894-4641 Location: GT: MiRC 225 Email: pamela.bhatti@ece.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomedical sensors and subsystems including bioMEMS

	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

	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

	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

	Michelle R. Dawson Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-894-5192 Fax: 404-385-2713 Location: GT: Ford ES&T - L1220 Email: mdawson@jhu.edu Research Areas: gene delivery, stem cell engineering, cell biophysics, cancer

	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

	Craig R. Forest Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-7645 Fax: 404-894-9342 Location: GT: MaRC Building, Room 411 Email: cforest@gatech.edu Research Areas: Ultra-high throughput genomics instrumentation; detection, separation, amplification of DNA; 3-D microfabrication technologies for genomics applications; and micro-lenslet arrays

	Andres J. Garcia 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

	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

	Shawn Hochman Associate Professor	Phone: 404-712-3131 Fax: 404-727-2648 Location: EU: 644 Email: shochman@physio.emory.edu Research Areas: spinal cord functional systems, molecular biology

	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.

	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

	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

	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

	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

	Robert M. Nerem Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience	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

	Mark R. Prausnitz Professor	Phone: 404-894-5135 Fax: 404-894-2866 Location: GT: IBB - 1312 Email: mark.prausnitz@chbe.gatech.edu Research Areas: transdermal, ocular and intracellular delivery of drugs, vaccines, and genes; bioMEMS; ultrasound

	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

	Anthanassios Sambanis Associate Professor	Phone: 404-894-2869 Fax: 404-894-2291 Location: GT: IBB - 1306 Email: athanassios.sambanis@chbe.gatech.edu Research Areas: tissue engineering, cellular engineering, intracellular protein trafficking and secretion, cell modeling

	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

	Todd Sulchek Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-1887 Fax: 404-385-8187 Location: GT: Love Building - Room 303 Email: todd.sulchek@me.gatech.edu Research Areas: atomic force microscopy, MEMs, biomechanics, adhesion, multivalent drug delivery, imaging and metrology, biosensors

	Srini Tridandapani, MD Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-712-1098 Fax: 404-712 1871 Location: EU Hospital: Room A-141 Email: stridan@emory.edu Research Areas: Cardiac Computed Tomography, Ultrasound Microbubble Contrast Agents, Medical Informatics, Computer/Telecommunication Networks and High Performance Computing, Queueing Theory, Statistics.

	Alessandro Veneziani Associate Professor	Phone: 404-727-7925 Fax: 404-727-5611 Location: EU: Mathematics & Science Center - Room N418 Email: ale@mathcs.emory.edu Research Areas: computational cardiovascular mathematics, numerical methods for partial differential equations, numerical analysis

	Raymond P. Vito Professor Vice Provost for 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

	David W. Wright, M.D., FACEP Assistant Professor Director of the Emergency Medicine Research Center	Phone: 404-616-6010 Fax: 404-616-6182 Location: EU: Steiner Bldg Rm 112 Email: dwwrigh@emory.edu Research Areas: neuroinjury, sports concussions, cognitive impairment, neuroprotection and neuroplasticity, medical technology development

	Evan Zamir Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-3679 Fax: 404-385-1397 Location: GT: IBB - 2306 Email: evan.zamir@me.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomechanics, morphogenesis, cell motility, developmental biology, gastrulation


BME PKU PhD Program Faculty

Please note that all BME Primary Faculty members are also a part of the BME PKU PhD Program Faculty and are not repeated below.

	Haifeng Chen Research Professor	Phone: +86-10-6275-4396 Fax: +86-10-6275-4396 Location: PKU Email: haifeng.chen@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: biomaterials, bio-nanotechnology, tissue eEngineering and regenerative medicine

	Zigang Ge Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-6275-6736 Fax: +86-10-6275-7545 Location: PKU Email: gez@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: cartilage regeneration and osteoarthritis, stem cells, biomaterials

	Ying Luo Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-8252-9288 Fax: +86-10-8252-9288 Location: PKU: Fang-Zheng Bldg 206 Email: yluo@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: bioconjugates, polymeric biomaterials, tissue engineering and regeneration, drug delivery

	Qiguo Rong Associate Dean	Phone: +86-10-6275-7429 Fax: +86-10-6275-1812 Location: PKU Email: qrong@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: biomechanics, system biology

	Jeff Jianzhong Xi Professor	Phone: +86-10-6276-0698 Fax: +86-10-6276-0698 Location: PKU Email: xi@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: microRNA, siRNA and noncoding RNA, biochips

	Tianyu Xie Professor	Phone: +86-10- 6276-7405 Fax: +86-10- 6276-7405 Location: PKU Email: tianyu_xie@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: spectrum endoscope, robotic endoscope, medical imaging, and localization of medical device inside of human body.

	Chunyang Xiong Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-6275-7940 Fax: +86-10-6275-7940 Location: PKU Email: cyxiong@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: cell mechanics and biomedical micro/nanotechnology

	Jue Zhang Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-6275-5036 Fax: +86-10-6275-1493 Location: PKU Email: zhangjue@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: functional magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, biomedical signal and image processing, computer aided surgery, sleep medicine and bioelectricity

	Huaiqiu Zhu Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-6276-7261 Fax: +86-10-6276-7261 Location: PKU Email: hqzhu@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: bioinformatics and computational system biology

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