Washington University, St. LouisEngineering

Research Programs


Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
  • biocompatible engineered materials
  • engineered materials for regenerative medicine
  • materials for drug and gene delivery
  • cell and tissue biomechanics in development, injury and healing
Cardiovascular Engineering
  • bio-pacemakers
  • vascular cell mechanics
  • new paradigms for defibrillation
  • mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias
  • electrocardiographic imaging
Imaging Technologies
  • photoacoustic tomography
  • thermoacoustic tomography
  • phase-contrast x-ray imaging
  • nanoparticle imaging agents
  • diffuse optical tomography
  • neural imaging
  • multimodality imaging
  • ultrasound-modulated optical tomography
  • optical coherence computed tomography
  • electrocardiographic imaging
  • optical bioelectric imaging
  • time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing
Molecular, Cellular & Systems Engineering
  • sequence-structure-function of cell surface receptors and ion channels
  • nanomaterials
  • protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions
  • protein aggregation and homeostasis
  • modeling and manipulating biological systems and networks
Neural Engineering
  • brain-computer interfaces
  • computational neuroscience
  • video/auditory/olfactory signal processing
  • neural plasticity
  • neuroprostheses

Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Whitaker Hall, Campus Box 1097, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Phone: (314) 935-7208, Fax: (314) 935-7448

Reduce Font SizeEnlarge Font SizePrint Page