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Kasson, Peter
Read MoreAssociate Professor of Molecular Physiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Peter Kasson received his MD and PhD from Stanford University, where he worked on antigen presentation with Harden McConnell and cell-surface signaling in T-cell activation with Axel Brunger and Mark Davis. During his postdoc with Vijay Pande, he helped develop the distributed-computing...
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Kelly, Kimberly A.
Read MoreProfessor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Kelly develops phage-based nanoparticle techniques for diagnostic imaging, drug target identification, and drug delivery in the setting of pancreatic cancer.
Kimberly A. Kelly, PhD is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the University of Virginia in...
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Kent, Richard W.
Read MoreProfessor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Emergency Medicine
Dr. Kent is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia. He has worked in the field of automobile safety for 25 years. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed books, chapters, and articles in the field and has...
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Kester, Mark
Read MoreDirector, nanoSTAR Institute, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology/Biophysics
Mark Kester is a Professor of Pharmacology and the Director of the NanoSTAR Institute of the University of Virginia. He was previosuly the G. Thomas Passananti Professor of Pharmacology at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and the inagural Director of the Penn State Center for NanoMedicine...
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Klibanov, Alexander L (Sasha)
Read MoreAssociate Professor
Born and raised and educated (all the way past Ph.D.) in Moscow, then USSR, what is now Russia. In 1991 moved to USA and worked in academic research and industrial positions. Research interests are in the area of chemistry applications in biomedical research.
Ultrasound imaging is a...
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Kundu, Bijoy Kumar
Read MoreAssociate Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Bijoy K. Kundu, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the tenure track in the department of Radiology and Medical Imaging at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. After completing his PhD in Nuclear Physics from the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India, he pursued his post-doctoral work at...