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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	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: 404-385- 5044 Location: GT: BME 3111 Email: thomas.barker@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: branching morphogenesis, extracellular matrix, regenerative medicine

	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 (An 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

	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

	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 Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Tissue Engineering	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 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

	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: 404-727-9873 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

	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 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: musculoskeletal biomechanics and neurophysiology

	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

	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

	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

	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 Assistant 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

	Yadong Wang Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-385-5027 Fax: 404-894-4243 Location: GT: BME - 2113 Email: yadong.wang@bme.gatech.edu Research Areas: biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery

	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: cell/molecular mechanics, application to immunology and tumor biology


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

	Marijn Brummer Assistant Professor	Phone: 404-727-5882 Fax: 404-712-7904 Location: EU: EU Hospital - AG15 Email: mbrumme@emory.edu Research Areas: radiology

	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

	Marie E. Csete Associate Professor	Phone: 404-712-2588 Fax: 404-712-2585 Location: EU: 420 Email: marie_csete@emoryhealthcare.org Research Areas: anesthesiology

	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

	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

	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

	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

	Tracy Faber Associate Professor	Phone: 404-712-7915 Fax: 404-727-3488 Location: EU: WMB 1203 Email: tracy_faber@emory.org Research Areas: imaging

	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

	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

	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: shochm2@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.

	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

	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

	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 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@che.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@che.gatech.edu Research Areas: tissue engineering, cellular engineering, intracellular protein trafficking and secretion, cell modeling

	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

	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

	David W. Wright, M.D., F.A.C.E.P Assistant Professor Director, Emergency Medicine Research Center	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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