DIRECTORY Zoran Nenadic, D.Sc.
James Brody, Ph.D.
William J. Link Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Zhongping Chen, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Surgery
Kyriacos Athanasiou, Ph.D.
Research Interests: biomedical optics, in vivo optical imaging, microvasculature, light-based therapeutics
Gregory J. Brewer, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: neuronal networks, decoding brain learning and memory, brain-inspired computing, Alzheimer’s disease, brain aging, neuron cell culture
Email: egratton@uci.edu
Anna Grosberg, Ph.D.
Email: choib@uci.edu
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Michelle Digman, Ph.D.
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Chair in Laser Biomedicine and Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering; Developmental and Cell Biology
Email: elliot.botvinick@uci.edu
Research Interests: design of new fluorescence instruments, protein dynamics, single molecule, fluorescence microscopy, photon migration in tissues
Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Michael Berns, Ph.D.
Research Interests: laser microbeams, cellular mechanotransduction, mechanobiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
Bernard Choi, Ph.D.
Email: athens@uci.edu
Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Enrico Gratton, Ph.D.
Email: z2chen@uci.edu
Research Interests: understanding and enhancing the healing processes of musculoskeletal tissues as well as the body’s cartilaginous tissues; applying the translation of engineering innovations to clinical use, especially in terms of instruments and devices
Elliot Botvinick, Ph.D.
Email: adurkin@uci.edu
Research Interests: biomedical optics, optical coherence tomography, bioMEMS, biomedical devices
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Email: mwberns@uci.edu
Research Interests: spatial frequency domain imaging, wide-field functional imaging, quantitative near-infrared spectroscopy of superficial tissues, chemometrics, fluorescence spectroscopy, quantitative spectral imaging
Email: jpbrody@uci.edu
Email: znenadic@uci.edu
Research Interests: photomedicine, laser microscopy, biomedical devices
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: bioinformatics, micro-nanoscale systems
Research Interests: adaptive biomedical signal processing, control algorithms for biomedical devices, brain-machine interfaces, modeling and analysis of biological neural networks
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Anthony Durkin, Ph.D.
Research Interests: computational modeling of biological systems, biomechanics, cardiac tissue engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering NEWLY PROMOTED
Email: grosberg@uci.edu
Research Interests: biophotonics, fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, nanoscale imaging, mechanotransduction, cancer cell migration, fluorescence lifetime and metabolic mapping
Jered Haun, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: mdigman@uci.edu
Tim Downing, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Research Interests: stem cell and tissue engineering, regenerative biology, cell reprogramming, epigenomics, mechanobiology Email: tim.downing@uci.edu
NEWLY PROMOTED
Research Interests: nanotechnology, molecular engineering, computational simulations, targeted drug delivery, clinical cancer detection Email: jered.haun@uci.edu
Elliot E. Hui, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: microscale tissue engineering, bioMEMS, cell-cell interactions, global health diagnostics Email: eehui@uci.edu
Email: gjbrewer@uci.edu
UCI Department of Biomedical Engineering
