Affiliated Faculty
A
Adamo, Joan
- Director, Regulatory Support Services, CTSI
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0742
Interests: Regulatory Science; guidance for researchers who are planning studies regulated by the FDA
Anand, Ajay
- Associate Professor of Data Science
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Deputy Director, Georgen Institute of Data Science
- Telephone
- (585) 276--314
Interests: Ultrasound signal processing; Model-based parameter estimation; Novel clinical ultrasound imaging techniques; Biomedical data analytics
- Associate Professor of Data Science
Awad, Hani
- Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Donald and Mary Clark Professorship of Orthopaedics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 1.8531 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5268
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
- Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
B
Baran, Tim
- Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
Assistant Professor of Optics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5340
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical optics; photodynamic therapy; medical image processing
- Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
Benoit, Danielle
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 273--269
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Therapeutic Biomaterials
Berger, Andrew J.
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 405 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4724
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical Optics; Optics Education
- Professor of Optics
C
Chess, Patricia
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2972
Interests: Pulmonary biomechanics
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Clark, Robert
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 214 Hopeman
- rclark@rochester.edu
Interests: Dynamic systems; Measurement and control; Single-molecule mechanics; Bio-nano-manufacturing; Scaffolds for tissue engineering
Crane, Benjamin
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngolog
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngolog
D
Dean, David
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3933
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Gene Therapy
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
DeAngelis, Greg
- George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Center for Visual Science
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8677
Interests: Visual neuroscience; Multi-sensory integration; Neural coding; Linking neurons to perception
- George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
DeLouise, Lisa A.
- Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1810
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin
- Associate Professor of Dermatology
Dickerson, Ian
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1040
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Carbon Nanotube-Mediated Gene Transfer; Neuropeptide Signal Transduction; Protein-Protein Interactions
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Dogra, Vikram
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Urology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4388
Interests: Photoacoustic imaging for medical diagnosis ; Application of high resolution ultrasound for bladder tumor detection and follow-up; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for hemostasis
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Doyley, Marvin
- Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology) - Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3774
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging
- Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Duric, Nebojsa
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Vice Chair for Research, Department of Imaging Sciences
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Dylag, Andrew
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6803
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Dziorny, Adam
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8138
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
F
Fiebelkorn, Ian C.
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275--866
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The overarching goal of the Fiebelkorn lab’s research is to understand how the brain flexibly allocates its limited processing resources to improve behavioral outcomes.
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Flax, Jonathan
- Research Assistant Professor of Urology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Research Assistant Professor of Urology
Frisch, Benjamin J.
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7148
Interests: The role of inflammation in bone marrow microenvironmental dysfunction; interactions of myelogenous leukemia with the bone marrow microenvironment; in vitro modeling of the bone marrow microenvironment
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
G
Gildner, Candace
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4113
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Glading, Angela
- Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5750
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Role of cell-cell contact in regulating cellular function in both the normal and disease state
- Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
H
Haddas, Ram
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Director, UR Medicine Motion Analysis Laboratories
Interests: My research is dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal and neurological pathologies as well as their sequelae using Disability and Functional Outcomes Measurement (DFOMs).
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Henry, Kenneth S.
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4851
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Hocking, Denise
- Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix
- Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Howard, Thomas
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
L
Loiselle, Alayna E.
- Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7239
- Web Address
- Website
- Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Lopatkin, Allison J.
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6858
- Web Address
- Website
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
M
Maddox, Ross
- Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Auditory brainstem response; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Audiologic diagnosis
Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad
- Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7148
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The primary focus of the PURE lab at the University of Rochester is to develop novel, hybrid, and ultrasound-based diagnostic methods, and define the clinical utility of the developed technologies as it applies to detection, diagnosis, and therapy of various pathologies.
- Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences
Merigan, William
- Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor, Center for Visual Science
- Telephone
- (585) 275--487
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Imaging the function of retinal neurons using calcium indicators; Evaluating vision restoration by optogenetics, stem cells or gene therapy
- Professor of Ophthalmology
Meyer, Anne
- Associate Professor of Biology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9290
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Synthetic biology; 3D printing of bacteria; engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials; survival strategies of bacteria; organization of bacterial DNA
- Associate Professor of Biology
Miller, Benjamin
- Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
- Professor of Dermatology
Mix, Doran
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 279-5100
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Elastographic-based imaging of AAA; Fenestrated endograft
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
Moore, Duncan T.
- Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor in Optical Engineering Science
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Business Administration
- Telephone
- (585) 524-8
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
- Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor in Optical Engineering Science
N
Nam, Jong-Hoon
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 203 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4555
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell mechanics
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Nedergaard, Maiken
- Professor of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuromedicine
Professor of Neurosurgery - Co-Director, Center for Translational Neuromedicine
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4595
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The basic biology of glial cells in the CNS and the role of astrocytes in several neurological diseases, including stroke, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, tremor, and ALS. Research is aimed at defining new strategies for the treatment of neurological diseases that target astrocytic dysfunction
- Professor of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuromedicine
Norman-Haignere, Samuel
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (646) 256-4905
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience and perception; Neural encoding of speech and music; Statistical modeling of neural responses; Temporal integration; Human intracranial recordings; Functional MRI; Cross-species comparisons
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
P
Parker, Kevin J.
- William F. May Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology) - Dean Emeritus, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
- Office Location
- 724 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3294
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Medical Imaging; 3D and 4D Imaging; CT, MRI, and ultrasound; Multi-dimensional processing and display techniques; Doppler Imaging Techniques; Sonoelasticity; Digital Halftoning; Blue Noise Mask ; Color Halftoning
- William F. May Professor of Engineering
Perucchio, Renato
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4071
- rlp@me.rochester.edu
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
R
Rolland, Jannick
- Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science - Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics
Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering
- Office Location
- 505 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 752-1013
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Aberration Theory; Freeform Optics; Metasurfaces; Metaform; Optical System Design; Optical Metrology; Illumination; Instrumentation and System Engineering; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE); Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR); Head-Worn Displays; Heads-up Displays
- Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Romanski, Lizabeth
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1469
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Understanding how social communication information is processed, integrated and remembered in the brain
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Rubens, Deborah
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering - Vice Chair, Faculty and Professional Development, Department of Imaging Sciences
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8365
Interests: Ultrasound sonoelasticity; 3-dimensional imaging; Contrast agents
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
S
Schallek, Jesse B.
- Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4848
- Web Address
- Website
- Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Schieber, Marc H.
- Professor of Neurology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor, Center for Visual Science
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Neural Control of Individuated Finger Movements
- Professor of Neurology
Schwarz, Edward
- Professor of Orthopaedics
Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics
Professor of Medicine, Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Urology - Director , Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Professor of Orthopaedics
Slane, Laura
- Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6872
- Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Small, Eric M.
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7706
- Web Address
- Website
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute
Stone, Jonathan J.
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 225-5767
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
U
Uddin, Md Nasir
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neuroimaging; Iron and Myelin Mapping; Microstructure Imaging; MR Angiography; Neuroinflammation
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
W
Williams, David R.
- William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science - Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 270 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8672
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics
- William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Wilson, Nicole
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor or Pediatrics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4435
- Web Address
- Website
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Wismueller, Axel
- Professor of Imaging Sciences, of Biomedical Engineering, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- MCA 2-2214 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 613-2399
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mathematical algorithms for computational analysis; Pattern recognition in clinical real-world applications
Wu, J.H. David
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
- j.wu@rochester.edu
Interests: Biochemical Engineering, Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology
Wu, Chia-Lung
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1335
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Bioengineering, cellular biology, next-generation sequencing techniques and genome editing tools
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Y
Yao, Zhenqiang
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor or Dentistry
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4129
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Basic and translational studies of musculoskeletal diseases and breast cancer
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Yeh, Shu-Chi
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1632
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Intravital imaging-based approaches for direct visualization, quantification, and molecular profiling of the local regulatory machineries that harbor the skeletal, hematopoietic, and malignant stem cells
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Z
Zavislan, James M.
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor 2018-2021
- Office Location
- 414 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9819
Interests: Optical Engineering; Biomedical Optical Systems
- Professor of Optics
Zhong, Jianhui
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging
- Professor of Imaging Sciences