Faculty and Staff Directory

University Distinguished Professor, 

Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies

Professor, 

Bioresponsive drug delivery; cell and tissue engineering; tissue architecture; targeted therapeutics; breast cancer

Associate Professor, 

Drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis

Professor of the Practice, 

Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging

DiPietro Assistant Professor, 

Agricultural & environmental biotechnology; enzyme immobilization and protein assemblies

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery

Assistant Professor, 

Theoretical biology and biophysics; Computational modeling and simulations; Structure-dynamics of complex bio-systems; Rational design of glycoprotein-based therapeutic strategies

University Distinguished Professor, 

Polymeric biomaterials for medical products such as implantable electronic devices, hydrogel-based devices and drug delivery systems

Associate Professor, 

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) for biomedical imaging and biosensing

Affiliated Faculty, 

Theoretical Chemistry, Biophysics, Materials Chemistry

Associate Professor, 

Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction

Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Master's Programs, 

synthesis and application of novel polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Professor, 

Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications

Affiliated Faculty, 

Associate Professor, 

Molecular modeling and process simulation of interfacial/nanoconfined systems and mixtures relevant to separations, development of nano/bio-materials, energy and the environment

Assistant Professor, 

Fate, persistence, and toxicity of materials in the environment and the body to inform the design of functional, sustainable, and benign next-generation materials, products, and processes

Associate Professor, 

Bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions

Associate Professor, 

Neural interface technology, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biomechanics

Associate Professor, 

Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus

Associate Professor, 

Design and manipulation of molecular/materials chemistry and structure for new property discovery, new functionality and technology development by combining theoretical and experimental methods; high performance computing, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, polymer physics, materials and biomolecular engineering

Assistant Professor, 

Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy

University Distinguished Professor, 

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine

Professor, 

Biosensing, nanomedicines, nanoparticles, nano enhanced process

Assistant Professor, 

Fluid mechanics, soft matter, microfluidics, active colloidal systems, electrokinetic flow, interfacial phenomena, complex fluids, reactive flow, biological flow; additive manufacturing, material synthesis and processing in flow, oil/gas recovery and remediation

Affiliated Faculty, 

Drug delivery and targeting; Drug carriers; Pharmaceutical biotechnology; Experimental cancer immunology; Nanomedicine; Pharmaceutical carriers; Liposomes and micelles

Professor, 

Our group investigates biomolecules at the single-molecule level. We develop nanopore-based and other nanotechnology-based methods for probing the structure and dynamic behavior of biomolecules. We employ optical waveguides and single-molecule enzymatic approaches for RNA sequencing, and utilize engineered nanopore sensors for applications in single-molecule proteomics. We are experimentalists, but we also use advanced computational tools to perform big data analysis.

Professor, 

Natural product biochemistry, plant abiotic and biotic interactions, carbon sequestration, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery

Professor and Chairperson, 

Mechanobiology of neural systems; Systems for nerve regeneration; Diversity and equity in engineering

Assistant Professor, 

Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health