The NYCBE has an internationally recognized faculty of more than 30 researchers in the areas of arterial fluid mechanics and transport, cartilage and ligament mechanics, tissue-biomaterial interaction, bio-heat transfer, micro-vascular exchange, bone adaptation, renal modeling, neural engineering, drug delivery, laser applications in biomedicine, quantitative image analysis for diagnostic pathology, biomedical signal processing and instrumentation, and pattern recognition and vision.
The outstanding quality and diversity of the faculty are reflected in their society affiliations, membership on select panels of the National Institutes of Health, National Research Council, NASA, and editorships and associate editorships of major journals. The faculty have won many of the most prestigious awards and honors in fields related to biomedical engineering, including election to the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine.
- Name: Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD
Title: Assistant Professor, Surgery
Name of Institution/Company: 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.
Contact Information: adusumip@mskcc.org
- Name: Priti Balchandani, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor, Radiology and Neuroscience
Name of Institution/Company: 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.
Contact Information: priti.balchandani@mssm.edu
- Name: Jean-Philippe Berteau, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor, Biomechanics
Name of Institution/Company: CUNY CSI Willowbrook
Research Interests: Key biological factors that govern bone's mechanical behavior
Contact Information: jean.berteau@csi.cuny.edu
- Name: Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, Ph.D.
Title: Head, Neuroblastoma Program; Enid A. Haupt Chair in Pediatric Oncology
Name of Institution/Company: MSKCC
Research Interests: Immunotherapy, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Contact Information: cheungn@mskcc.org
Tel: 212-639-5954
- Name: Kevin Costa, PhD
Title: Senior Faculty, Cardiology
Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Contact Information: kevin.costa@mssm.edu
Tel: 212-241-7122
Fax: 212-241-4080
- Name: Stephen B. Doty, Ph.D.
Title: Senior Scientist
Name of Institution/Company: The Hospital for Special Surgery
Research Interests: Morphology and histology of bone.
Contact Information: dotys@hss.edu
Tel: 212-606-1417
- Name: Zahi Fayad, PhD
Title: Professor, Radiology
Institution/Company: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Contact Information: zahi.fayad@mssm.edu
Tel: 212-241-6858
Fax: 240-368-809
- Name: Filippo Giancotti, M.D., Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Name of Institution/Company: MSKCC
Research Interest: Cell and molecular biology in cancer
Contact Information: fggiancotti@mdanderson.org Tel: 212-639-7003 - Name: Rita Z. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Name of Institution/Company: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests: Cognitive-emotional-behavioral and neurobiological changes that accompany drug addition; Pharmacological fMRI and PET-MRI-ERP.
Contact Information: rita.goldstein@mssm.edu 212-824-9312 - Name: Marilyn Gunner
Title: Professor, Physics
Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
Research Interests: Protein electrostatic calculations; electron transfer studies.
Contact Information: mgunner@ccny.cuny.edu
- Name: James Iatridis, PhD
Title: Associate Professor, Orthopaedics
Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Contact Information: james.iatridis@mssm.edu
Tel: 212-241-1517
- Name: Kung-Ming Jan
Title: Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine
Name of Institution/Company: Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research Interests: Lipoprotein transport across arterial endothelium.
Contact Information: kj3@columbia.edu
- Name: Kam W Leong
Title: Samuel Y Sheng Professor
Institution: Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Systems Biology,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.
Contact: kam.leong@columbia.edu http://orion.bme.columbia.edu/leonglab/
- Name: Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor, Biology
Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
Research Interest: Neuroscience
Contact Information: arodrig@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 650-5899
- Name: David S. Rumschitzki, Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Chemical Engineering
Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
Research Interests: Transport and reaction aspects of arterial diseases.
Contact Information: drumschitzki@ccny.cuny.edu
- Name: Ali Sadegh, Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
Research Interests: Computational biomechanics, bone remodeling.
Contact Information: sadegh@ccny.cuny.edu
- Name: Lisa Satlin, Ph.D.
Title: Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Mount Sinai Medical CenterProfessor, Pediatric Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests: Ontogeny and mechanoregulation of epithelial cell function in kidney.
Contact Information: Lisa.Satlin@mssm.edu
(212) 241-7148
- Name: David Spray
Title: Professor, Neuroscience
Name of Institution/Company: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Research Interests: Biophysics of gap junctions.
Contact Information: spray@aecom.yu.edu
Tel: 718-430-2537 Fax: 718-430-8594
- Name: Herb B. Sun Ph.D
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Name of Institution/Company: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Research Interests: Arthritis, Tendinopathy, Musculoskeletal injuries, Cancer
Contact Information: herb.sun@einstein.yu.edu
- Name: Yi Sun, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
Research Interest: Nanomicroscopy and Imaging Processing
Contact Information: ysun@ccny.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-650-6621
- Name: Cheuk Tang, PhD
Title: Associate Professor, Radiology
Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Contact Information: cheuk.tang@mssm.edu
Tel: 212-241-7255
- Name: Peter A. Torzilli, Ph.D.
Title: Senior Scientist
Name of Institution/Company: The Hospital for Special Surgery
Research Interests: Soft tissue biomechanics, cellular/molecular bioengineering.
Contact Information: TorzilliP@hss.edu
Tel: 212-606-1087
- Name : Harini Veeraraghavan
Title: Assistant Attending, Department of Medical Physics
Name of Instutition/Company: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Research Interest: Computer vision and machine learning applied to medical image analysis for various problems including tumor and mormal structures segmentation,
radiomics, radiogenomics analysis for correlating image-based features to treatment outcomes, and image registration for multi-modality images.
Contact Information: veerarah@mskcc.org
- Name: Peter Walker, Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Name of Institution/Company: NYU-Hospital for Joint Disease, Orthopedic Program, NYU School of Medicine
Research Interest: Design of Knee Replacements
Contact Information: ptrswlkr@aol.com
- Jie Wei, Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Computer Science
Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
Research Interest: Medical Imaging Processing
Contact Information: wei@cs.ccny.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-650-5604
- Name: Alan Weinstein, Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Physiology & Medicine
Name of Institution/Company: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Research Interests: Fluid transport and renal physiology.
Contact Information: alan@nephron.med.cornell.edu
Fax: 212-746-4027
- Name: Timothy M. Wright, Ph.D.
Title: Director, Department of Biomechanics & Biomaterials, The Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor, Applied Biomechanics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Research Interests: Design and performance of bone-implant systems, mechanics and mechanobiology of bone tissue.
Contact Information: WrightT@HSS.EDU
- Name: Robert J. Young, M.D.
Title: Director, 3T MRI Neuroadiology, Associate Attending, Neuroradiology Service, Department of Radiology
Name of Instutition/Company: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Research Interest: Development and translation of advanced MR imaging technologies to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and
treatment monitoring of patients with brain cancers.
Contact Information: youngr@mskcc.org
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