Arash Kheradvar, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: cardiac mechanics, cardiovascular devices, cardiac imaging Email: arashkh@uci.edu
Ronke Olabisi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Samueli Faculty Development Chair
Email: ccl@uci.edu
Email: ronke.olabisi@uci.edu
Research Interests: genetic engineering, directed evolution, synthetic biology, chemical biology
Research Interests: orthopedic tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for injury, aging, disease and space flight
Michelle Khine, Ph.D.
Wendy F. Liu, Ph.D.
Daryl Preece, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: development of novel nano- and microfabrication technologies and systems for single cell analysis, stem cell research, in vitro diagnostics Email: mkhine@uci.edu
Christine King, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Teaching Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: engineering and STEM education, active learning, wireless health systems, rehabilitation, brain-computer interfaces, robotics Email: kingce@uci.edu
Frithjof Kruggel, M.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: biomedical signal and image processing, anatomical and functional neuroimaging in humans, structure-function relationship in the human brain Email: fkruggel@uci.edu
Abraham P. Lee, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: lab-ona-chip health monitoring instruments, drug delivery micro/nanoparticles, integrated cell-sorting microdevices, lipid vesicles as carriers for cells and biomolecules, high-throughput droplet bioassays, microfluidic tactile sensors Email: aplee@uci.edu
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Chang C. Liu, Ph.D.
Research Interests: biomaterials, microdevices in cardiovascular engineering, cell-cell and cellmicro-environment interactions, cell functions and controls Email: wendy.liu@uci.edu
Beth A. Lopour, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: computational neuroscience, signal processing, mathematical modeling, epilepsy, translational research Email: beth.lopour@uci.edu
Joshua Mauney, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Urology
Research Interests: tissue engineering of urogenital, gastrointestinal and respiratory hollow organs; silk fibroin biomaterials, cellular and molecular mechanisms of tissue regeneration following surgical reconstruction Email: mauneyj@uci.edu
Thomas Milner, Ph.D. Director of Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic, Professor of Surgery, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: opticalbased therapeutics and diagnostic imaging, biomedical optics NEW FACULTY sensors, optical tomography MEMBER Email: milnert@uci.edu
Research Interests: nano-optics, neuro-photonics, optical forces and mechanotransduction, singular optics and biophotonics Email: dpreece@uci.edu
William C. Tang, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) nanoscale engineering for biomedical applications, microsystems integration, microimplants, microbiomechanics, microfluidics Email: wctang@uci.edu
Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Biomedical Engineering Research Interests: photon migration, diffuse optical imaging, non-linear optical microscopy, photodynamic therapy Email: bjtrombe@uci.edu
Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: x-rayinduced acoustic computed tomography for in vivo radiation NEW FACULTY dosimetry & radiology, fast MEMBER proton-induced acoustic imaging for precision proton therapy, and electroacoustic tomography guided electroporation Email: liangzhx@uci.edu
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