New York Center for Biomedical Engineering

NYCBE consists of many internationally-recognized faculty whose research complements and synergizes with that of our core faculty

• Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD
  Title: Professor and Deputy Chief, Thoracic Service
  Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Research Interests: Thoracic surgeon with expertise and research in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in the chest, including medical devices
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• Priti Balchandani, PhD
  Title: Professor of Diagnostic, Molecular, and Interventional Radiology
  Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
  Research Interests: Developing novel techniques to exploit the power of high-field MR magnets to visualize the brain in unprecedented detail
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• Jean-Philippe Berteau, PhD
  Title: Associate Professor of Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, and Clinical Sciences
  Institution: CUNY College of Staten Island
  Research Interests: Key biological factors that govern bone's mechanical behavior
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• Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PhD
  Title: Enid A. Haupt Chair in Pediatric Oncology
  Institution: MSKCC
  Research Interests: Immunotherapy, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
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• Kevin Costa, PhD
  Title: Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Biomechanics of cardiovascular cell and tissue function
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• Stephen B. Doty, PhD
  Title: Senior Scientist
  Institution: The Hospital for Special Surgery
  Research Interests: Morphology and histology of bone
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• Zahi Fayad, PhD
  Title: Director of the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute, Professor
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Multimodal biomedical imaging and nanomedicine
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• Rita Z. Goldstein, PhD
  Title: Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Cognitive-emotional-behavioral and neurobiological changes that accompany drug addition; Pharmacological fMRI and PET-MRI-ERP
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• Marilyn Gunner, PhD
  Title: Professor, Physics
  Institution: The City College of New York
  Research Interests: Protein electrostatic calculations; electron transfer studies.
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• James Iatridis, PhD
  Title: Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Orthopaedics
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Biomechanics of spine loading and injury
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• Kung-Ming Jan, MD
  Title: Associate Professor of Medicine
  Institution: Columbia University Medical Center
  Research Interests: Lipoprotein transport across arterial endothelium
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• Kam W Leong, PhD
  Title: Samuel Y Sheng Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Institution: Columbia University
  Research Interests: Direct cell reprogramming for regenerative medicine applications. Design of carriers to efficiently deliver transcriptional factors and genome editing elements to the cells. Nanoparticle-mediated gene delivery and immunotherapy
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• Ali Sadegh, PhD
  Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  Institution: The City College of New York
  Research Interests: Computational biomechanics, bone remodeling.
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• Lisa Satlin, MD
  Title: Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Ontogeny and mechanoregulation of epithelial cell function in kidney
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• David Spray, PhD
  Title: Professor of Neuroscience and Medicine
  Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Research Interests: Biophysics of gap junctions.
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• Yi Sun, PhD
  Title: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
  Institution: The City College of New York
  Research Interests: Single-molecule microscopy and image processing
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• Peter A. Torzilli, PhD
  Title: Senior Scientist
  Institution: The Hospital for Special Surgery
  Research Interests: Soft tissue biomechanics, cellular/molecular bioengineering
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• Harini Veeraraghavan, PhD
  Title: Associate Member of Medical Physics
  Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Research Interests: Computer vision and machine learning applied to medical image analysis for various problems including tumor and normal structures segmentation, radiomics, radiogenomics analysis for correlating image-based features to treatment outcomes, and image registration for multi-modality images
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• Peter Walker, PhD
  Title: Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
  Institution: New York University School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Design of knee replacements
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• Jie Wei, PhD
  Title: Professor of Computer Science
  Institution: The City College of New York
  Research Interests: Medical image processing
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• Alan Weinstein, MD
  Title: Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Biophysics
  Institution: Weill Cornell Medical College
  Research Interests: Fluid transport and renal physiology
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• Timothy Wright, PhD
  Title: Chair and Professor of Orthopedic Biomechanics
  Institution: The Hospital for Special Surgery
  Research Interests: Design and performance of bone-implant systems, mechanics and mechanobiology of bone tissue
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• Robert J. Young, MD
  Title: Head of Brain Imaging and Director of Neuroradiology Research
  Instutition: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Research Interests: Development and translation of advanced MR imaging technologies to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and treatment monitoring of patients with brain cancers
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