Brain Disorders

Assistant Professor

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Developing materials and fabrication technologies to enable the design and construction of complex cellular and material systems, with the goal of addressing fundamental and translational problems in biomedicine.

Professor

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Developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques for rapid acquisition of image data in the setting of cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal disease, using tools in physics, signal processing, and image reconstruction.

Professor

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Developing ultrasound-activated drug and gene delivery systems for treating cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Investigating the mechanisms through which collateral arteries grow and adapt in response to changes in blood flow.

Professor

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Developing computational predictive models using machine learning and signal and image processing with applications in pathology, radiology, systems biology and mobile sensing.

Assistant Professor

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Analysis of stem cell fate using single cell mass cytometry and high-dimensional modeling of cell lineage trajectories.

Professor of Biology

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Pursuing the molecular basis for long-distance neurotrophic construction signaling, how TNFR family signaling suppresses pro-growth cues to promote nervous system refinement, building non-invasive tools to better understand the signaling pathways underlying neural circuit assembly and function, and applying what we've learned about the development of the nervous system to nervous system pathology related to degeneration, pain, and metabolism.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Biomaterials for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and drug delivery within the central nervous system, developing both synthetic polymers and recombinant engineered proteins.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Applied Biomechanics

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Using computational and experimental methods to study the mechanisms of injury from impacts sustained in sports collisions, automotive crashes, and the military, to develop new technologies for injury prevention.

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Seed Funding for transformative research, including "Multiscale Imaging of Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in TBI" (Song Hu, Craig Meyer, Wilson Miller) and "Automating Glia Neuroimaging" (Dan Weller, Scott Acton, Gustavo Rohde).