Bioengineering Research Map Lee Makowski, Professor and Chair [email protected] Mark Niedre, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Studies [email protected] Shiaoming Shi, Director of MS Programs [email protected]
@NUBioE1 @nu_bioe @nubioe www.bioe.neu.edu Anand Asthagiri Associate Professor of Bioengineering Affiliated Professor of Biology and Chemical Engineering [email protected]
Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology Research Interests: integrative, predictive principles for engineering mammalian cell behaviors and multicellular morphodynamics, with applications in cancer and regenerative medicine.
Lab Website: http://www.cell-engineering.org Teaching: BIOE3380 Biomolecular dynamics and control, BIOE5420 Cellular Engineering Ambika Bajpayee Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Moleecular Electrostatics & Drug Delivery Lab [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: Targeted delivery of drugs and imaging probes; bio-electrostatics; bio-transport modeling; biomechanics; mechanisms underlying trauma and age induced osteoarthritis
Lab website: https://web.northeastern.edu/bajpayeelab/ Teaching: BIOE 5650 Multiscale Biomechanics; BIOE 5651 Fields Forces and Flows Chiara Bellini, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Affiliated Faculty, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology Research Interests: Cardiovascular mechanics; cell-mediated growth & remodeling of tissues and organs; thoracic aortic aneurysms; arterial stiffness; vascular/skeletal systems interaction; effect of chronic aerosol inhalation on cardiovascular function
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LCllExUAAAAJ&hl=en Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/wormneurolab/ Teaching: BIOE 2350 Biomechanics Teaching: BIOE 2355 Quantitative Physiology; BIOE 5060 Introduction to Neurophotonics Samuel Chung, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering [email protected]
Research Area 1: Imaging, Instrumentation, and Signal Processing Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: Axon regeneration; femtosecond laser surgery; fluorescence imaging; microscopy automation
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/wormneurolab/ Teaching: BIOE 2355 Quantitative Physiology; BIOE 5060 Introduction to Neurophotonics Heather Clark Professor, Bioengineering and Chemistry Director, Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems [email protected]
Research Area 1: Imaging, Instrumentation, and Signal Processing Research Interests: My group is currently working at the interface of chemistry and biology to develop and apply novel nanoscale probes for bio measurements. Ultimately, we will use nanosensors to image specific chemical processes in the body, in real-time.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=55DQl4UAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1 Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HS6Rz_EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Teaching: Physiological Fluid Mechanics Guohao Dai Assistant Professor of Bioengineering [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: Vascular Tissue Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering, 3D Bioprinting
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HS6Rz_EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Teaching: Physiological Fluid Mechanics Qianqian Fang, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Interests: Optical tomography, computational optics, point-of-care devices, brain functional imaging
Webpage: https://fanglab.org; http://mcx.space Teaching: BioE 3210 Bioelectricity; 5235: Biomed. Imaging, 5810: Design of Biomed Instru. Erel Levine Associate Professor [email protected]
Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology
Research Interests: Gut-brain interactions and its effects on health, stress response, and behavior; Statistical and machine learning approaches to biological data; Synthetic biology in multi-cellular organisms
Publications: https://web.northeastern.edu/sysbioeng/ Teaching: Mathematical methods in bioengineering, quantitative and physical biology Herbert Levine Professor of Bioengineering and Physics [email protected]
Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology
Research Interests: Theoretical approaches to the functional behavior of living systems. Cell signaling and cell motility. Cancer metastasis and the cancer-immune interaction. Drug resistance and epigenetics.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gHjHIvAAAAAJ&hl=en Teaching: Biomechanics, cell motility, graduate and undergraduate physics Jiahe Li, Ph.D. Professor of Bioengineering and Physics [email protected]
Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Protein engineering; immunotherapy; cancer treatment; vaccine development; drug delivery
Publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/53092740/?sort=date&direction=ascending Teaching: TBD Lee Makowski Professor and Chair, Bioengineering [email protected]
Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ZphipMAAAAJ&hl=en Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yu2lFAUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Teaching: Principles of Bioengineering, Molecular Bioengineering Teaching: BIOE 3210 Bioelectricity; BIOE 5235 Biomedical Imaging Mark Niedre, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Bioengineering Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Studies [email protected]
Research Area 1: Imaging, Instrumentation, and Signal Processing Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: Biomedical optics; fluorescence imaging; cancer metastasis; rare cell detection and tracking in the body; ultrafast light-tissue interactions; image reconstruction and signal processing
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ZphipMAAAAJ&hl=en Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yu2lFAUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Teaching: Principles of Bioengineering, Molecular Bioengineering Teaching: BIOE 3210 Bioelectricity; BIOE 5235 Biomedical Imaging Jessica M. Oakes Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Respiratory Innovation and Simulation Team [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology
Publications: https://www.northeastern.edu/biofluids/ Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qzIVkq0AAAAJ&hl=en Teaching: Transport and Fluids for Bioengineers and Computational Biomechanics Teaching: GE 2361 Mathematical methods for Engineers; BIOE 5060 Mechanotransduction in cells & tissue Hari Parameswaran, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: Mechanotransduction, multiscale mechanobiology, Computational modeling, Cell-Cell communication, [Current:] Dynamic switching of force transmission pathways in multicellular ensembles
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qzIVkq0AAAAJ&hl=en Teaching: GE 2361 Mathematical methods for Engineers; BIOE 5060 Mechanotransduction in cells & tissue Sara H. Rouhanifard Assistant Professor of Bioengineering [email protected] @SRouhanifard
Research Area 1: Imaging, Instrumentation, and Signal Processing Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Development of single-cell technologies for DNA+RNA, Nucleic acid detection as a diagnostic tool, RNA modifications in developing neurons.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kZmY4wEAAAAJ&hl=en & https://rouhanifardlab.com/ Teaching: BIOE 3380 Jeffrey Ruberti Professor of Bioengineering [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering Research Interests: My lab focuses on the role matrix molecules play in the transition of animals from a loosely-connected grouping of cells to a fully-connected, mechanically robust structure. The relevant disciplines are: Mechanochemistry, Mechanobiology, Mechanobioreactor Development, Cell Culture, Single Molecule Light Microscopy, High Resolution Electron Microscopy.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kZmY4wEAAAAJ&hl=en & https://rouhanifardlab.com/ Webpage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wIt-jakAAAAJ&hl=en Teaching: BIOE 3380 Teaching: Principles of Bioengineering, Quantitative Physiology, Capstone Design Sandra Shefelbine Associate Professor of Bioengineering Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering [email protected]
Research Area 2: Biomechanics, Biotransport and MechanoBiology Research Interests: multi-scale mechanics of bones; adaptation of bone to mechanical loading during growth and ageing
Publications: www.shefelbine.org Teaching: ME 5665 Musculoskeletal Biomechanics; BIOE 2350 Biomechanics Nikolai Slavov Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Affiliated Faculty, Biology [email protected]
Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology Research Interests: Rationally engineered directed differentiation, single-cell analysis, ribo- some-mediated translational regulation, proteomics, cell signaling, systems biology
Publications: northeastern.edu/slavovlab Teaching: Mathematical Methods for Engineers & Methods and Logic in Systems Biology Eduardo D. Sontag Distinguished University Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering Faculty, Program in Therapeutic Science, Harvard Medical School [email protected]
Research Area 3: Molecular, Cell, and Tissue Engineering Research Area 4: Computational and Systems Biology Research Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology, Control Systems in Biology and Engineering, Biocomputing, Immune/Tumor Interactions, Optimal Control of Cancer Therapy, Phenotypic Resistance, Reverse Engineering Cell Signaling, and Gene Networks, Resource Competition in Cells.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CCToMygAAAAJ Teaching: BIOE 5115 Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering Bioengineering Overview
• 504 undergraduates, 60 Masters, 51 PhD
• 20 Core Faculty, 43 affiliated faculty - 3 Distinguished Professors - 18 Young Investigator Awards - 1 AHA member, 1 AIMBE member
• 30 co-op employers in Boston area - Bio-rad, Boston Scientific, Covidien, Genzyme, MIT Lincoln Labs, Novartis, Smith and Nephew, Vention Medical, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
• Seeking accreditation by Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET Bioengineering Overview
• Total funding received by sponsors in FY18: $3.4M - National Institues of Health - National Science Foundation - United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation - Purdue University - Relay Therapeutics - Rutgers University - The Morton Cure Paralysis Fund
• Total research expenditures in FY18: $3.6M
• Total of active research grants: $17.2M