Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology

Biomedical Engineering Faculty List

Meet Our Faculty & Staff

Sean Collins, PT, ScD, CCS

Chair, Associate Professor and Director of Human Assessment Lab
Stephen McCarthy, Ph.D.

Professor, M.S. Co-Coordinator, Director, Co-Director

Medical devices, biodegradable polymers, mechanical behavior, applications of CAD/CAM
Dhimiter Bello, Sc.D., MSc

Associate Professor
Bryan Buchholz, Ph.D.

Professor, Director

Occupational Biomechanics, Bioinstrumentation
Bridgette Budhlall, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Synthesis & applications of polymer colloids & soft matter towards stimuli-responsive materials. Emulsion polymers. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for biomedical devices, drug delivery systems & biosensors.
Charles Byrne

Professor

Algorithms for medical imaging
Cindy Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Database Systems and XML
Aldo Crugnola

Professor & Dean Emeritus

Mechanical-physical properties, process-induced changes in physical molecular structure
Clayton S. French, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor

Radiological science & protection
Peter Gaines, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Molecular and Developmental Biology
Mahdi Garelnabi, M.Sc., MLT, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Clinical Chemistry and Instrumentation
Nancy Goodyear, Ph.D., MT (ASCP), CLS (NCA)

Assistant Professor

Clinical Microbiology, Safe Disinfection
Michael Graves, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Associate Chair

Molecular Biology and Virology
Garth Hall, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Garry Handelman, Ph.D.

Professor

Nutritional Sciences
Guixin (Susan) He, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Microbiology
Jerome Hojnacki, Ph.D.

Professor, Graduate Coordinator

Atherosclerosis, Lipid Biochemistry, Lipoprotein Metabolism & Nutrition
Carl W. Lawton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
Mufeed Mah'd, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Digital Signal and Image Processing
Sanjeev Manohar, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Associate Professor
Kenneth Marx, Ph.D.

Professor

Biochemistry, Physical Biochemistry, Data Mining, & Cheminformatics
Asil Oztekin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Medical informatics, healthcare engineering, decision analysis, multivariate data analysis, data mining
Eugene J Rogers, Ph.D., M.S., N.R.C.C., MT(ASCP)

Professor, Chair

Clinical Chemistry, Analytical Biochemistry
Connie J. Seymour, PT, Ph.D., OCS

Associate Professor & Coordinator, Advanced Clinical Practice & Community Partnership
Thomas B. Shea, Ph.D.

Professor, Director

Cell Biology
Joel Therrien, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Nanoelectronic Devices
Xingwei Wang, Ph.D

Associate Professor

Optical biosensing & biomedical devices
Thomas Wilson, Ph.D., M.P.H., L.D.N.

Associate Professor, Program Coordinator - Nutritional Sciences

Nutritional Sciences
Bruce Young, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Susan J. Braunhut, Ph.D.

Professor

Tissue Regeneration; Ionizing Radiation Therapy for Human Cancer; Hyperthermia; Breast Cancer; Vascular Biology; Extracellular Matrix
Daniel F. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Materials preparation and structure/properties relationships in polymer nanocomposites, polymer crosslinking and network formation, pre-ceramic polymers, sol-gel chemistry and materials analysis (porosimetry, permeation testing, thermal analysis, x-ray diffraction & spectroscopic techniques)
Seongkyu Yoon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Director

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