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Department of Biomedical Engineering

Faculty & Staff

The biomedical engineering faculty group consists of a total of nine faculty members from the College of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences. While a general interest in the successful implementation of a biomedical engineering department is common among these faculty members, the diversity and variety of their respective areas of interest acts as the cornerstone to the program. Descriptions of the group members are provided below. 

Primary Faculty and Staff 

James Baish
Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Biological Heat and Mass Transport, Tumor Physiology, System Dynamics, Origins of Biological Form

Daniel Cavanagh
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Emmitt Memorial Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Interests: Biomedical Fluid Dynamics, Therapeutic Uses of Surfactants, Intravascular Gas Embolism

Donna Ebenstein
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco
Interests: Biomaterials, Biomimetics, Nanomechanics, Structure-Property Relationships

Marie Jacob
Academic Assistant
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bucknell University

Eric A. Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D.  Virginia Tech
Interests:  Auto, Military,Consumer Product, and Sports Safety, Injury Biomechanics, Eye Injury Biomechanics, Lower Extremity Injury Biomechanics

William E. King
Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Interests:  Laser-Tissue Interactions, Artificial Blood Substitutes, Liquid Ventilation of the Lung, Applied Mathematics 

 

Joseph Tranquillo
Assistant Professor of Biomedical & Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. Duke University
Interests: Computational Electrophysiology

 

Affiliated Faculty 

Mitchell Chernin
Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Clemson University
Interests: Molecular Biology, Regulation of Gene Expression, Bone Remodeling and Growth, Regulation of the Cardiac Renin-angiotensin system

Arthur Sharpiro
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Columbia University
Interests: Visual Adaptation, Low-light-level Vision, Color Vision, Mathematical Models of Visual Processing

Margot Vigeant
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Interests: Biotransport in Cell Migration, Bacterial Adhesion, Biofilm Formation

 

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