Curricula Vitae in Biomedical Engineering

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Ahmed Alshareef Assistant Professor	biological tissue, deformation and mechanics, biomechanics, simulations of injury and disease	Ahmed A. Alshareef is an Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing.
Professor R. Michael Gower Associate Professor	understanding the immune system to develop bio-instructive materials that stimulate immune response	Our research focuses on understanding the immune system in order to develop bio-instructive materials that stimulate specific immune responses. We aim to control immune cell migration to synthetic microenvironments that are engineered to program and expand regulatory immune cells as a therapeutic tool for inflammatory disease. We employ these technologies in animal disease models with the long-term goal of developing translational therapies for atherosclerosis, diabetes, and cancer.
Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari Professor	Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Drug Delivery	Jabbari's group research interests are in the areas of tissue engineering, biomaterials, and drug delivery. Tissue regeneration and maintenance is a complex process involving the interactions of cells with growth and differentiation factors, cytokines, and extracellular components. These guiding signals originate from the interactions of cells with bioactive peptide domains attached to the collagenous network or the non-collagenous soluble factors of the extracellular matrix.
Dr. Ehsan Jabbarzadeh Professor	Tissue engineering, Stem cells, Drug Discovery	The overarching theme of our research is the robust design and engineering of tissues through understanding and modeling of the environmental effects on stem cell differentiation and tissue remodeling and development. We are engineering microenvironments based on carbon nanotube arrays with finely controllable biophysical and biochemical properties for the investigation of molecular mechanisms associated with cell migration, proliferation and differentiation.
Dr. Melissa A. Moss Associate Dean	protein aggregation, kinetics of protein aggregation, inhibition of protein aggregation, effect of protein aggregates on neuronal and vascular cells, blood-brain barrier function	Professor Moss's research focuses on the problem of Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Tarek Shazly Professor		The research in Dr. Shazly's lab is focused on defining and characterizing relevant tissue properties for clinical applications and rationally designing polymeric biomaterials that leverage local biology to enhance therapeutic gain. His specific interests include physiological mechanical testing of soft matter, mechanical modeling, multiphysics-based computational modeling, tissue-material adhesion and tissue scaffold engineering.
Nader Taheri-Qazvini Assistant Professor	Polymer Science and Engineering, Soft Matter, Nanocomposites	My research focuses on the rational design, synthesis, and structure-property relation of soft materials for healthcare and biomedical applications. Specifically, my lab is interested in harnessing charge driven self-assembly between macromolecules and two-dimensional nanomaterials for designing hybrid soft materials. This covers a broad class of systems in several fields, with problems including biofabrication, biosensing, environmental remediation, and cellular motions.
Dr. Mark Uline Professor	Molecular modeling of biological interfaces, Bubble and droplet nucleation theory, Molecular dynamics simulations in the isothermal-isobaric ensemble	The Uline research group is working toward the fundamental understanding of how the complex interactions at interfaces couple together to give the rich phenomena observed in various chemical and biological systems. Currently, we are focused on molecular modeling of biological interfaces, in particular, phase transitions and binding in lipid bilayers and surfactant driven nematic ordering transitions in liquid-crystal thin films.
Dr. Guiren Wang Associate Professor	Lab-on-a-Chip and microscopy for Biophysics on aquaporins protein water channel, cancer, Cancer diagnostics, microbiomechanics, Nanoscopy, Optical diagnostics, Fluid and biofluid dynamics	Dr. Wang's research and interests include transcellular transport phenomena, aquaporin protein water channel, micro/nanofluidics, lab-on-a-chip, super resolution imaging and STED nanoscopy, femtosecond laser based measurement, fluorescence spectroscopy, cancer, biomechanics, developing HTS for drug discovery/delivery, optical measurement, (bio)fluid mechanics, turbulence and mixing..
Tao Wei Associate Professor	biomaterials, biocompatible materials and biotechniques, polymer membrane and semiconducting polymers, low-dimensional or nanoporous materials	Dr. Tao Wei's lab focuses on functional materials and biotechnologies using the combination of multiscale simulations, experiments and machine learning.