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Fallahi-Sichani, Mohammad
Read MoreAssistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research in the Fallahi-Sichani laboratory aims at designing, building and utilizing new experimental and computational tools, as means to discover fundamental mechanisms that regulate the behavior of human cells in response to perturbations, such as cytokines, environmental stress, and...
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French, Brent A., Ph.D.
Read MoreProfessor of Biomedical Engineering
Research interests of the Molecular Bioengineering Lab focus on developing new, more effective strategies for treating and preventing human disease. In parallel, we develop novel diagnostic imaging methods to better understand the progression/regression of disease and the impact of novel...
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Gelfand, Bradley D., Ph.D.
Read MoreAssistant Professor
Dr. Gelfand graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa (Iowa City). He next attended the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) where he earned his Ph.D. also in Biomedical Engineering. Brad next joined the Ambati Laboratory at the University of Kentucky in...
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Gerling, Gregory J.
Read MoreAssociate Professor
I am an Associate Professor in Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, at the University of Virginia. My group's research interests are in general related to the fields of haptics, computational neuroscience, human factors and ergonomics, biomechanics, and human–machine interaction. My...
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Hossack, John A.
Read MoreProfessor
Molecular imaging using molecular targeted microbubble-based contrast agents.
Ultrasound provides for single particle (single microbubble) imaging sensitivity. When we can detect a microbubble that has adhered to a selected molecular receptor, we have detected the signature of disease at...
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Janes, Kevin
Read MoreProfessor
Kevin Janes received his B.S. and B.A. degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Spanish at Johns Hopkins University in 1999. He was a Fulbright Scholar at La Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain before attaining his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at M.I.T. in 2005 under the joint supervision of...
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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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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...