Biomedical Engineering

Pathways

Director: Dr. Noel Ziebarth
Description: To provide integrated medical and engineering training to prepare future physician innovators. In addition to course work in biomedical engineering, they will engage in a mentored capstone design project that addresses a specific healthcare need. Students will receive training in engineering design focused on medical devices and systems, and enhance their technical skills in areas including programming, data processing, device prototyping, and/or tissue engineering. Students will work under the supervision of a research mentor and may be partnered with a biomedical engineering capstone design team.

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Faculty

Noel Ziebarth, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Graduate
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Biography: Dr. Ziebarth’s research program is dedicated to applying advanced imaging technologies to investigate the structural and mechanical properties of ophthalmic tissues. Specifically, her laboratory uses confocal microscopy (FRAP), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to analyze the lens, cornea, retina, and optic nerve of the eye in their normal and diseased states. In addition to using commercially available modalities, she has also developed custom Atomic Force Microscopes (hardware and software) that can measure the elastic and viscoelastic properties of cells, tissues, and polymers.
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Ashutosh Agarwal, Ph.D.

Co-Director: Engineering Cancer Cures, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director of Engineering and Applied Physics: Desai Sethi Urology Institute
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Fotios Andreopoulos, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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Jorge Bohorquez, Ph.D.

Professor of Professional Practice
College of Engineering
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Courtney Dumont, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
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Biography: Courtney Dumont received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer in 2014 under the mentorship of Deanna Thompson while studying the effects of endothelial hemodynamics on neural stem cell fate, and her BS at Rensselaer in 2009. Dr. Dumont performed her postdoctoral research under the mentorship of Lonnie Shea at the Univeristy of Michigan, where she evaluated various gene therapy, stem cell, and biomaterial therapeutic options for spinal cord injury. Her teaching interests include tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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Patrick Ganzer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
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Biography: Patrick D. Ganzer, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami (jointly appointed at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Biomedical Engineering). He received his undergraduate degree in 2008 from King’s College (Pennsylvania; Summa Cum Laude). In 2013, he received his Ph.D. from Drexel University, conducting biomedical engineering and neuroscience research in preclinical models of spinal cord injury...
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Charles Huang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
College of Enginnering
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Biography: Dr. Huang is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami (UM) College of Engineering, USA. His current research focuses on the mechanobiology of orthopedic soft tissues and stem cells, especially impact injury of articular cartilage, and energy metabolism of intervertebral disc...
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Alicia Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
College of Engineering
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Biography: Transport and Electromechanical Properties, Nutritional Supply to Cells and Tissues, Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Soft Tissues, Finite Element, Analysis, Orthopaedic Tissues: Intervertebral Disc, Meniscus, etc.
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Abhishek Prasad, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
College of Engineering
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Biography: Neural Electrodes, Neuroprosthetics, Motor neurophysiology, Brain-Machine Interfaces
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Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.

Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology
Assistant Vice Provost for Research Workforce Development, University of Miami
Director, University of Miami CTSI Workforce Development
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Biography: Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Miami, Research Health Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and founder and Chief Scientific Officer of RestorEar Devices, LLC. The NeuroTherapeutics group led by Dr. Rajguru carries out research with translational focus on characterization, diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss and balance dysfunction...
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Alice Tomei, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
College of Engineering
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Biography: Dr. Tomei is an Associate Professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Immunology and Surgery and the director of the Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Millers School of Medicine. She is applying her unique background in bioengineering and immunology to develop novel immunoengineering platforms to prevent rejection after islet transplantation and to promote antigen-specific tolerance for a cure of type-1 diabetes...
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Yingchun Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor
College of Engineering
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Biography: Yingchun Zhang, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Desai Sethi Urology Institute, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and the director of the Predictive Modeling and Functional Imaging Research Laboratory (PreMI) at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, in collaboration with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota...
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