Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering: BME Faculty

Share | |

Search |

Department of Biomedical Engineering: BME Faculty & Staff

Faculty Search:
BME Primary Faculty \| BME PhD Program Faculty \| BME PKU PhD Program Faculty
BME Primary Faculty


	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 Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor Phone: 404-385-1155 Email: st149@mail.gatech.edu

	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 Business Administrator: Erin Kirshtein Phone: 404-385-9785 Email: erin.kirshtein@bme.gatech.edu

	Gilda Barabino Associate Chair for Graduate Studies & Professor	Phone: 404-385-5016 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 2115 Email: gilda.barabino@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: sickle cell adhesion, cellular engineering, tissue engineering and bioreactors Business Administrator: Nydia Akins Phone: 404-385-5036 Email: nydia.akins@bme.gatech.edu

	Thomas Barker Associate 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 Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor Phone: 404-385-1155 Email: st149@mail.gatech.edu

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

	Ravi Bellamkonda Professor Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Chair in Biomedical Engineering GCC Distinguished Scholar Associate Vice President for Research	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 Business Administrator: Kelly Rockwell Phone: 404-385-2953 Email: krockwell@gatech.edu

	Paul J. Benkeser Senior Associate Chair for Operations & Professor	Phone: 404-894-2912 Fax: 404-385-0383 Location: GT: BME - 2120 Email: paul.benkeser@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: ultrasonic bioengineering, biomedical signal and image processing, biomedical engineering education Business Administrator: Nydia Akins Phone: 404-385-5036 Email: nydia.akins@bme.gatech.edu

	Mark Borodovsky Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Regents' Professor Chair, Department of Bioinformatics Faculty of Biological and Medical Physics Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia	Phone: 404-894-8432 Fax: 404-385-0383 Location: GT: BME - 4102 CSE - 1338 Email: borodovsky@gatech.edu Research Areas: bioionformatics, machine learning, biological systems modeling and prediction Business Administrator: Jeffrey Caimano Phone: 404-385-5056 Email: jeffrey.caimano@bme.gatech.edu

	Edward A. Botchwey, III Associate Professor	Phone: 404-385-5058 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: IBB - 1311 Email: edward.botchwey@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: tissue engineering and biomaterials, microvascular growth and remodeling, stem cell engineering Business Administrator: Donna Sibble Phone: 404-385-3830 Email: donna.sibble@bme.gatech.edu

	Robert Butera Professor	Phone: 404-894-2935 Fax: 404-894-5044 Location: GT: BME - 3104 Email: robert.butera@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: neuromodulation of peripheral nerve activity, real-time control methods applied to electrophysiology measurements, mechanisms of temporal synchrony in neural systems, neural control of breathing Business Administrator: Alyceson Andrews Phone: 404-894-1359 Email: andrews@bme.gatech.edu

	Michael E. Davis Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-727-9858 Fax: 404-727-9873 Location: EU: WMB - 2009 Email: michael.davis@bme.emory.edu Research Areas: Cardiac regeneration, oxidative stress, protein and cell therapy, biomaterials applications Business Administrator: Tanya Blackwell Phone: 404-727-0353 Email: tanya.blackwell@emory.edu

	Stephen P. DeWeerth Professor	Phone: 404-894-4738 Fax: 404-385-5044 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 Business Administrator: Alyceson Andrews Phone: 404-894-1359 Email: andrews@bme.gatech.edu

	C. Ross Ethier Professor Georgia Research Alliance Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Eminent Scholar in Bioengineering	Phone: 404-385-0100 Fax: 404-894-2423 Location: GT: IBB - 2306 Email: ross.ethier@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: glaucoma Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor Phone: 404-385-1155 Email: st149@mail.gatech.edu

	Barbara Burks Fasse Director of Learning Sciences Innovation and Research	Phone: 404-385-0158 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 2121 Email: bfasse@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: pedagogical reform in Biomedical Engineering instruction; design, implementation, and evaluation of curricular innovation and practices; ethnographic studies of organizational and cultural patterns and systems; metacognition Business Administrator: Elisabeth Suto-Bardoczi Phone: 404-385-1152 Email: elisabeth.bardoczi@bme.gatech.edu

	Don P. Giddens Dean Emeritus & Professor	Phone: 404-385-5040 Fax: 404-385-0383 Location: GT: BME - 3112 Email: don.giddens@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: fluid mechanics applied to cardiovascular disease, doppler velocimetry and ultrasound, hemodynamics Business Administrator: Jeffrey Caimano Phone: 404-385-5056 Email: jeffrey.caimano@bme.gatech.edu

	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 Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging	Phone: 404-712-2615 Fax: 404-712-2707 Location: EU: HA - N307 Email: xhu3@emory.edu Research Areas: magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, functional MRI, image reconstruction and processing, molecular imaging Business Administrator: Katrina Gourdet Phone: 404-712-2730 Email: kgourde@emory.edu

	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; role of shear stress in vascular inflammation and neovascularization; in vivo siRNA delivery Business Administrator: Tanya Blackwell Phone: 404-727-0353 Email: tanya.blackwell@emory.edu

	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 Business Administrator: Tanya Blackwell Phone: 404-727-0353 Email: tanya.blackwell@emory.edu

	Charlie Kemp Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-8192 Fax: 404-385-8109 Location: GT: 828 West Peachtree Street - 220F Email: charlie.kemp@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: healthcare robotics, autonomous robot manipulation, human-robot interaction Business Administrator: Donna Sibble Phone: 404-385-3830 Email: donna.sibble@bme.gatech.edu

	Melissa Lambeth Kemp Associate Professor Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar	Phone: 404-385-6341 Fax: 404-385-8109 Location: GT: IBB - 1314 Email: melissa.kemp@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: redox systems biology; computational modeling of immune cell signaling Business Administrator: Donna Sibble Phone: 404-385-3830 Email: donna.sibble@bme.gatech.edu

	Wilbur A. Lam MD Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-5081 Fax: 404-727-9873 Location: GT: M Building - 4100Q Email: wilbur.lam@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: cellular mechanics, BioMEMs/microfabrication/microfluidics, hematology (platelet and leukocyte biology, sickle cell disease, thrombosis), endothelial cell biology, cancer, pediatric medical devices and diagnostics

	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 Business Administrator: Alyceson Andrews Phone: 404-894-1359 Email: andrews@bme.gatech.edu

	Joseph M. Le Doux Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor	Phone: 404-385-0632 Fax: 404-385-8109 Location: GT: BME - 2113 Email: joe.ledoux@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: gene therapy, drug resistance immunotherapy, virus and cell engineering, virus-cell interactions Business Administrator: Nydia Akins Phone: 404-385-5036 Email: nydia.akins@bme.gatech.edu

	Robert H. Lee Associate Professor	Phone: 404-894-4484 Fax: 404-385-5044 Location: GT: BME - 3103 Email: rhlee@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: cellular neurophysiology, computer modeling of neurons Business Administrator: Tanya Blackwell Phone: 404-727-0353 Email: tanya.blackwell@emory.edu

	Todd C. McDevitt Associate Professor Petit Faculty Fellow for the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Director, Stem Cell Engineering Center	Phone: 404-385-6647 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: IBB -2311 Email: todd.mcdevitt@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: stem cell engineering, cell and tissue engineering, regenerative biomaterials Business Administrator: Jeffrey Caimano Phone: 404-385-5056 Email: jeffrey.caimano@bme.gatech.edu

	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 Business Administrator: Pat Jordan Phone: 404-385-3901 Email: patricia.jordan@bme.gatech.edu

	Wendy Newstetter Director of Learning Sciences Research	Phone: 404-385-2531 Fax: 404-385-0383 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 Business Administrator: Jeffrey Caimano Phone: 404-385-5056 Email: jeffrey.caimano@bme.gatech.edu

	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 The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Professor Director for Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center	Phone: 404-712-8595 Fax: 404-727-3567 Location: EU: WMB - 2007 Email: snie@emory.edu Research Areas: BioMEMS/bionanotechnology, bioimaging and biomaterials for tissue engineering Business Administrator: Cynthia Lewis-Webb Phone: 404-727-9901 Email: clewisw@emory.edu

	John Oshinski Associate 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 Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar	Phone: 404-385-8531 Fax: 404-385-8109 Location: GT: IBB - 1308 Email: manu.platt@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: tissue remodeling in arteries due to sickle cell disease or HIV-infection, roles of proteases in tumor metastasis, and bone marrow-derived stem cell based therapies Business Administrator: Donna Sibble Phone: 404-385-3830 Email: donna.sibble@bme.gatech.edu

	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 Business Administrator: Alyceson Andrews Phone: 404-894-1359 Email: andrews@bme.gatech.edu

	James K. Rains Design Instructor Director of BME Capstone	Phone: 404-385-0166 Fax: 404-385-5044 Location: GT: BME - 3105 Email: rains@gatech.edu Research Areas: medical device design and development design process Business Administrator: Elisabeth Suto-Bardoczi Phone: 404-385-1152 Email: elisabeth.bardoczi@bme.gatech.edu

	Philip J. Santangelo Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-2116 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 2107 Email: philip.santangelo@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: infectious disease, molecular imaging, nano-biophotonics, and optical microscopy Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor Phone: 404-385-1155 Email: st149@mail.gatech.edu

	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 Business Administrator: Alyceson Andrews Phone: 404-894-1359 Email: andrews@bme.gatech.edu

	W. Robert Taylor MD Professor	Phone: 404-727-8921 Fax: 404-727-3572 Location: EU: WMB - 319 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 Associate 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 Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor Phone: 404-385-1155 Email: st149@mail.gatech.edu

	Lena Ting Associate Professor	Phone: 404-894-5216 Fax: 404-385-5044 Location: GT: BME - 3111 Email: lena.ting@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomechanics and neural control of movement Business Administrator: Tanya Blackwell Phone: 404-727-0353 Email: tanya.blackwell@emory.edu

	Brani Vidakovic Professor	Phone: 404-385-7246 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 2101 Email: brani@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: statistics Business Administrator: Sheyil Taylor Phone: 404-385-1155 Email: st149@mail.gatech.edu

	Eberhard Voit Professor David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology	Phone: 404-385-5057 Fax: 404-385-0383 Location: GT: BME - 4103 Email: eberhard.voit@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomedical systems, metabolic pathways, biochemical systems theory, S-systems Business Administrator: Jeffrey Caimano Phone: 404-385-5056 Email: jeffrey.caimano@bme.gatech.edu

	May Dongmei Wang Associate Professor Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar	Phone: 404-385-2954 Fax: 404-385-0383 Location: GT: BME - 4106 Email: maywang@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomedical informatics, biomedical image analysis, biological and medical data visualization, telemedicine Business Administrator: Jeffrey Caimano Phone: 404-385-5056 Email: jeffrey.caimano@bme.gatech.edu

	Younan Xia Professor Brock Family Chair GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine	Phone: 404-385-3209 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: M Building 3100J Email: younan.xia@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, controlled release, molecular imaging Business Administrator: Denna Cummings Phone: 404-385-2054 Email: denna.cummings@bme.gatech.edu

	Ajit Yoganathan Associate Chair for Research & Regents' Professor 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 Business Administrator: Sandra Maffey Phone: 404-385-6528 Email: sandra.maffey@bme.gatech.edu

	Cheng Zhu Associate Chair for International Programs J. Erskine Love Endowed Chair in Engineering Regents' Professor	Phone: 404-894-3269 Fax: 404-385-8109 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 Business Administrator: Nydia Akins Phone: 404-385-5036 Email: nydia.akins@bme.gatech.edu



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. Non-GT Program Faculty have adjunct status in BME.

	Jeremy D. Ackerman MD Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-251-8846 Fax: 404-778-2630 Location: EU: Steiner Building - 117 Email: jdacker@emory.edu Research Areas: medical applications for new and emerging technologies

	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 Bldg - 027 Email: mallen@gatech.edu Research Areas: micromachining, microsensor and microactuator fabrication, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

	Nicholas Boulis, MD Associate Professor	Phone: 404-727-2354 Fax: 404-217-8576 Location: EU Email: nboulis@emory.edu Research Areas: cellular and molecular therapies for the nervous system

	Elliot Chaikof MD Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School Chairman, Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery Surgeon-in-Chief, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Phone: 617-632-9581 Fax: 617-632-9701 Location: HMS: 110 Francis Street, Suite 9F Email: echaikof@bidmc.harvard.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 Bldg - 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: ES&T - L1220 Email: mdawson@jhu.edu Research Areas: gene delivery, stem cell engineering, cell biophysics, cancer

	J. Brandon Dixon Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-3915 Fax: 404-385-1397 Location: GT: IBB - 2312 Email: brandon.dixon@me.gatech.edu Research Areas: lymphatics, lipid metabolism, biomechanics, biomedical optics, image processing, tissue engineering

	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

	Baowei Fei, EngD Associate Professor Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar Director of Quantitative BioImaging Laboratory (QBIL)	Phone: 404-712-5649 Fax: 404-712-5689 Location: EU: Emory Center for Systems Imaging Email: bfei@emory.edu Research Areas: medical imaging, qImage-guided interventions (IGI), image processing and analysis, uultimodality imaging (ultrasound/optical/PET/MRI), prostate cancer

	Craig R. Forest Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-7645 Fax: 404-894-9342 Location: GT: MaRC Bldg - 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

	Hao Gao Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-712-5694 Fax: 404-727-5611 Location: EU: Mathematics & Science Center - E414 Email: hao.gao@emory.edu Research Areas: biomedical imaging, signal/image processing, numerical analysis, scientific computing

	Andres J. Garcia Professor	Phone: 404-894-9384 Fax: 404-894-2291 Location: GT: IBB - 2310 Email: andres.garcia@me.gatech.edu Research Areas: cell adhesion to biomaterials, orthopaedic cellular and tissue engineering

	Maysam Ghovanloo Associate Professor	Phone: 404-385-7048 Fax: 404-894-4701 Location: GT: TSRB - 419 Email: mgh@gatech.edu Research Areas: implantable microelectronic devices, wireless neural interfacing, neuroprostheses, assistive Technologies, bio-inspired microsystems, medical instrumentation, low-power analog/digital/mixed-mode integrated circuits

	Robert E. Gross MD Associate Professor	Phone: 404-727-2354 Fax: 404-712-8576 Location: EU: WMB - 6311 Email: rgross@emory.edu Research Areas: ablative procedures, cell therapy, deep brain stimulation, dystonia, epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, gene therapy, neurodegenerative disorders, parkinson's disease, physiology of movement disorders, restorative approaches, transplantation, tremor

	Robert E. Guldberg Professor Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience	Phone: 404-894-6589 Fax: 404-894-2291 Location: GT: IBB - 1106 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

	David Hu Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-894-0573 Fax: 404-894-8496 Location: GT: Love Bldg - 007 Email: hu@me.gatech.edu Research Areas: fluid mechanics: fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, biomechanics, locomotion, and physical applied mathematics

	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

	Stamatios Lerakis, MD, FAHA, FACC, FASE, FASNC, FCCP Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Radiology and Imaging Sciences Director of Cardiac MRI at Emory University Hospital and Emory Clinic	Phone: 404-778-5414 Fax: 404-778-3540 Location: EU: Emory Clinic - Building A Email: stam.lerakis@emory.org Research Areas: cardiology, cardiovascular disease, CT scan, echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, magnetic resonance imaging

	Robert Liu Associate 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 Associate Professor	Phone: 404-894-8473 Fax: 404-894-4200 Location: GT: ES&T - 2228 Email: Hang.Lu@chbe.gatech.edu Research Areas: microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, neurobiology, cell biology, systems biology, biotechnology

	Valeria Tohver Milam Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-894-2845 Fax: 404-894-9140 Location: GT: MoSE - 3100L 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 Regents’ Professor Love Family Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	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

	James M. Provenzale MD Professor	Phone: 404-712-1052 Fax: 404-778-4296 Location: EU: WMB Email: jmprove@emory.edu Research Areas: applications of nanotechnology to cancer imaging and therapy; perfusion MR imaging; diffusion tensor imaging

	Douglas D. Robertson Jr., MD Associate Professor of Radiology	Phone: 404-778-5834 Fax: 404-778-6250 Location: Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center - Suite 4009 Email: douglas.robertson@emoryhealthcare.org Research Areas: musculoskeletal imaging

	Christopher J. Rozell Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-7671 Fax: 404-385-5044 Location: GT: Cent - 5218 Email: crozell@gatech.edu Research Areas: computationally motivated models of population coding in sensorineuroal systems; advanced signal processing methods for data acquisition and analysis

	Anthanassios Sambanis 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

	Ioannis Sechopoulos Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-712-2412 Fax: 404-712-5803 Location: Winship Cancer Institute (Clinic C) Suite 5018 Email: isechop@emory.edu Research Areas: medical physics and medical imaging

	Dong Moon Shin, MD, FACP Frances Kelly Blomeyer Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology Associate Director, Academic Development	Phone: 404-778-5990 Fax: 404-778-5520 Location: EU: Winship Cancer Institute, Room C30094 Email: dmshin@emory.edu Research Areas: head and neck cancer, laryngeal cancer, lung cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, thyroid cancer

	Sam Sober Assistant Professor	Phone: 415-722-3276 Fax: 404-727-2880 Location: EU: Wayne Rollins Research Center - 2103 Email: samuel.j.sober@emory.edu Research Areas: motor control, sensorimotor learning, vocal behavior

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

	Lakeshia J. Taite Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-894-8795 Fax: 404-894-2866 Location: GT: ES&T - 1220 Email: lakeshia.taite@chbe.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomaterials, cardiovascular tissue engineering, targeted drug delivery

	Susan Napier Thomas Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-1126 Fax: 404-385-1397 Location: GT: IBB 2315 Email: susan.thomas@me.gatech.edu Research Areas: bioengineering, cellular engineering, biomaterials, cancer, metastasis, immunology

	Randy D. Trumbower Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-727-3065 Fax: 404-727-3065 Location: Center for Rehabilitation Medicine Email: randy.trumbower@emory.edu Research Areas: stroke and spinal cord injury

	Alessandro Veneziani Associate Professor	Phone: 404-727-7925 Fax: 404-727-5611 Location: EU: Mathematics & Science Center - 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 MD, FACEP Associate Professor	Phone: 404-616-6010 Fax: 404-616-6182 Location: EU: Steiner Bldg - 112 Email: dwwrigh@emory.edu Research Areas: neuroinjury, sports concussions, cognitive impairment, neuroprotection and neuroplasticity, medical technology development

	Young-sup Yoon Professor of Medicine Director of Stem Cell Biology	Phone: 404-727-8176 Fax: 404-727-3988 Location: EU: WMB 3309 Email: yyoon5@emory.edu Research Areas: cardiovascular diseases, stem cells, tissue engineering


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 engineering and regenerative medicine

	Antony K. Chen Professor	Phone: +86-10-6276-7580 Fax: +86-10-6276-7580 Location: PKU Email: chenak@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: molecular imaging, cell biology

	Zhifei Dai Professor	Phone: +86-10-8252-9377 Fax: +86-10-8252-9377 Location: PKU Email: zhfdai@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: nanomedicine, drug delivery systems, contrast agents and molecular imaging probes, theranostic agents, biosensors and bioassays

	Liping Duan, MD Professor	Phone: +86-10-8280-2825 Fax: +86-10-8280-2825 Location: PKU Email: duanlp@bjmu.edu.cn Research Areas: neuro-gastroenterology

	Zigang Ge 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

	Hongbin Han Professor Deputy Director of Scientific Research Department of Peking University Health Science Center Guest Professor of Kagawa University, Japan	Phone: +86-10-6276-7580 Fax: +86-10-6276-7580 Location: PKU Email: hanhongbin@bjmu.edu.cn Research Areas: medical imaging, neuroscience, biomedical engineering

	Changhui Li Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-6256-0432 Fax: +86-10-6256-0432 Location: PKU Email: chli@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: biomedical photonics, photoacoustic tomography and sensing in biomedicine, molecular and functional imaging

	Yijun Liu Professor (Endowment pending)	Phone: +86-10-6275-2664 Fax: +86-10-6275-2664 Location: PKU Email: yijunliu@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: functional neuroimaging, molecular & translational imaging, brain health & addiction

	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

	Mingliang Pu Professor	Phone: +86-10-8280-2972 Fax: +86-10-8280-2972 Location: PKU Email: mpu@hsc.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: visual systems

	Xiao-Ping Pu Professor	Phone: +86-10-6276-7580 Fax: +86-10-6276-7580 Location: PKU Email: pxp123@bjmu.edu.cn Research Areas: drug regulation of parkinson’s disease genes and proteins

	Qiushi Ren Professor PKU-COE Endowed Chair Professor MOE Chang-Jiang Distinguished Professor Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering	Phone: +86-21-6276-7113 Fax: +86-21-6276-7113 Location: PKU Email: renqsh@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: molecular imaging, minimal invasive surgeries, neural engineering

	Wenchang Tan Professor	Phone: +86-10-6275-4244 Fax: +86-10-6275-1812 Location: PKU: Mechanics Building 501 Email: tanwch@mech.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: biomechanics, bio-fluid mechanics, mechanobiology, non-newtonian fluid mechanics

	Rong Fu Wang Professor Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine of Peking University Science Health Center	Phone: +86-10-8357-2594 Fax: +86-10-6655-1057 Location: PKU Email: rongfu_wang2003@yahoo.com.cn Research Areas: molecular and clinical nuclear medicine

	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

	Peng Xi Associate Professor	Phone: +86-10-6256-0432 Fax: +86-10-6256-0432 Location: PKU Email: xipeng@coe.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: optical nanoscopy, multiphoton microscopy, novel biomedical optical instrumentation

	Wu Xiaolei Professor	Phone: +86-10-6275-9047 Fax: +86-10-6275-9047 Location: PKU Email: xiaolei_wu@pku.edu.cn Research Areas: molecular microbial ecology, microbial enhanced oil recovery, environmental biotechnology, bioenergy technology

	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.

	Feng Xu, MD Professor & Director	Phone: +86-10-6235-6136 Fax: +86-10-6235-6136 Location: PKU Email: Xusteven01@hotmail.com Research Areas: medical equipment’s quality control, clinical application risk evaluation

	Chang-Cheng Yin Professor Head of Department of Biophysics	Phone: +86-10-8280-1394 Fax: +86-10-8280-1394 Location: PKU Email: ccyin@hsc.pku.edu.cn Research Areas: macromolecular assemblies

	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

Site Map | Accountability | Legal & Privacy Information | Contact Webmaster

Chair: Larry V. McIntire

BME at GT:
BME at Emory:

313 Ferst Drive, Room 2127 Atlanta, GA 30332-0535 Phone: (404) 385-0124 Fax: (404) 894-4243
101 Woodruff Circle, Suite 2001 Atlanta, GA 30322-4600 Phone: (404) 727-9874 Fax: (404) 727-9873