| Philip
O.
Alderson:
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| James Picker Professor Radiology,
M.D.,
Washington University,
1970 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Peter
K.
Allen:
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| Professor of Computer Science,
M.S., Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania,
1985 |
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| Dimitris
Anastassiou:
|
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| Professor (Electrical Engineering),
Ph.D.,
University of California,
1979 |
| Interests:
Genomic Information Science and Technology; Digital image/video communications and processing with emphasis on multimedia applications; genomic information science and technology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Ernest
W.
April:
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| Associate Professor (Anatomy and Cell Biology),
M.D. |
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| Gerard
A.
Ateshian:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1991 |
| Interests:
Cartilage mechanics, biotribology, and tissue engineering, diarthrodial joint mechanics, soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, computer-assisted surgery |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Truman
R.
Brown:
|
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| Percey Kay and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor,
Ph.D.,
MIT,
1970 |
| Interests:
MR applications to physiology and neural functioning, spactroscopy |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Kevin
D.
Costa:
|
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of California (San Diego),
1996 |
| Interests:
Cardiac cell and tissue biomechanics, constitutive modeling, finite element methods, atomic force microscopy |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Aniruddha
Das:
|
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| Assistant Professor (Psychiatry),
Ph.D.,
University of California (Berkeley),
1985 |
| Interests:
Understanding the brain mechanisms of early vision |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Robert
DeLaPaz:
|
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| Professor (Radiology),
M.D.,
University Of Utah,
1976 |
|
| X.
Edward
Guo:
|
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1994 |
| Interests:
Bone tissue biomechanics, cellular and molecular mechanisms of mechano-signal transduction |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Andreas
H.
Hielscher:
|
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rice University,
1995 |
| Interests:
Biomedical optical imaging of joints, cerebral hemodynamics, vascular reactivity and optical molecular imaging. Model-based tomographic image reconstruction algorithms and medical instrument development |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Elizabeth
Hillman:
|
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D. |
| Interests:
optical imaging, multi-photon systems |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Jeffrey
W.
Holmes:
|
|
| Associate Professor,
Ph.D., M.D.,
University of California (San Diego),
1995, 1998 |
| Interests:
Cardiac mechanics, biomechanical properties of cardiac tissue, structure-function relations and mechano-signal transduction of cardiac cells |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Shunichi
Homma:
|
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| Margaret Milliken Hatch Professor (Medicine) |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Clark
T.
Hung:
|
|
| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania,
1995 |
| Interests:
Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on cells related to cellular and tissue engineering |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Kung
Ming
Jan:
|
|
| Associate Professor (Clinical Medicine),
M.D. |
|
| Lance
C.
Kam:
|
|
| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
1999 |
| Interests:
Cell interaction with micro- and nano-scale features of topology, chemistry, and extracellular signals. Biophysics of cell signalling involving biomembrane-associated proteins |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Elisa
E.
Konofagou:
|
|
| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Houston,
1999 |
| Interests:
Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image processing, soft tissue mechanics |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Andrew
F.
Laine:
|
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| Professor,
D.Sc.,
Washington University,
1989 |
| Interests:
Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Edward
F.
Leonard:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania,
1960 |
| Interests:
Blood-material interactions, immunophysics, modeling intracellular signaling |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Helen
H.
Lu:
|
|
| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania,
1998 |
| Interests:
Interface Tissue Engineering and the formulation of multiple tissue systems, design and fabrication of novel, composite biomaterials for implantation, mechanisms of cell-biomaterial interactions |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Zheng
Feng
Lu:
|
|
| Associate Professor (Clinical Radiology) |
|
| Jeremy
Mao:
|
|
| Associate Professor,
D.D.S., Ph.D. |
| Interests:
Dental and craniofacial tissue engineering |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Shiro
Matsuoka:
|
|
| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D.,
1959 |
| Interests:
Thermodynamics of nonequilibrium states; dynamics of polymer molecules, dielectric and viscoelastic relaxation phenomena; physics of interfacial free energy; modeling and analysis of diffusion process for charged molecules |
|
| Barclay
Morrison III:
|
|
| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania,
1999 |
| Interests:
Universal tissue tolerance criteria, role of the cytoskeleton in injury, application of genomic and proteomic technologies to mechanotransduction, repair strategies using stem cells |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Van
C.
Mow:
|
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| Stanley Dicker Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
1966 |
| Interests:
Orthopedic biomechanics and osteoarthritis research, computer-aided surgical planning, telemedicine |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Elizabeth
S.
Olson:
|
|
| Assistant Professor (Surgery),
Ph.D. |
| Interests:
Mechanics of hearing and the basis for frequency tuning in the inner ear |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| James
Picker:
|
|
| Professor (Radiology),
M.D.,
Washington University,
1970 |
|
| Richard
N.
Pierson:
|
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| Professor (Medicine),
M.D. |
|
| John
Pile-Spellman:
|
|
| Professor (Radiology, Neurosurgery),
M.D.,
Tufts University School of Medicine,
1978 |
|
| Arthur
A.
Pilla:
|
|
| Adjunct Professor,
Ph.D. |
| Interests:
Biophysical/Biological/Clinical effects of electromagnetic fields. Cell/tissue modelling with application to signal transduction and clinical studies. Bone/wound repair, acute and chronic pain relief, nerve regeneration and cancer applications |
|
| Paul
Sajda:
|
|
| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania,
1994 |
| Interests:
Neurocomputational modeling and neuroengineering, pattern recognition, adaptive processing for biomedical image and signal analysis |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Michael
P.
Sheetz:
|
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| (Biology) William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology,
Ph.D,
Cal Tech,
1972 |
| Interests:
Cell motility, motor molecules, integrin-cytoskeleton interactions |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| Samuel
K.
Sia:
|
|
| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
2002 |
| Interests:
Cellular biochemistry, systems biology, molecular modeling |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
|
| R.
Theodore
Smith:
|
|
| Professor,
M.D., Ph.D. |
| Interests:
computer assisted methods of retinal images, quantification of human visual system |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Henry
M.
Spotnitz:
|
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| Professor (Surgery) |
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| Gordana
Vunjak-Novakovic:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Belgrade,
1980 |
| Interests:
Cell and tissue engineering, bio-reactors, quantitative physiology, stem cells |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Alvin
Wald:
|
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| Adjunct Associate Professor |
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