Department Chair

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Paul Campagnola


Peter Tong Department Chair and Professor

Contact: pcampagnola@wisc.edu

Research interests: Biophotonics, tissue imaging, breast and ovarian cancer, connective tissue disorders, nanofabrication, cancer cell biology, tissue engineering

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Other affiliations: Medical Physics


 

Faculty

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Randolph Ashton


Associate Professor

Contact: rashton2@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4312

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Neural tissue engineering, Vascular tissue engineering, Regenerative therapies for the central nervous system, Stem cell bioprocessing, Nanoscale biomaterials engineering, Engineerig the stem cell-biomaterial i...

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Other affiliations: Biotechnology Training Program


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David J. Beebe


John D. MacArthur Professor & Claude Bernard Professor

Contact: djbeebe@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2260

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Microfluidics, Cell & Cancer biology, Global Health

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research


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Walter F. Block


Professor

Contact: wfblock@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9686

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science Program

Research interests: Magnetic resonance (MR) interventional procedures, MR image-guided drug delivery , MR contrast mechanisms, signal and image processing

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Christopher Brace


Associate Professor

Contact: clbrace@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4151

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Interventional OncologyThermal Ablation, Microwave Ablation Antenna Design, Image-Guided Therapy, , Simulation of Biophysical InteractionsMicrowave Heating, Heat Transport in Tissue, Antenna Optimization, , Bio...

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Kevin Eliceiri


RRF Walter H. Helmerich Professor

Contact: eliceiri@wisc.edu, (608) 658-4026

Research interests: Biophotonics, Biomedical Optics, Optical Instrumentation, Cancer imaging, Live Cell Imaging, Image Informatics, Image Analysis

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Other affiliations: Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Medical Physics, Morgridge Institute for Research, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery


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Shaoqin Sarah Gong


Vilas Distinguished Professor, Advancing Vision Science Chair Professor,
and RRF Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor

Contact: shaoqingong@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4311

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Biomaterials (e.g., multifunctional drug nanocarriers, theranostic nanomedicines, and  tissue engineering scaffolds), and functional devices., Prof. Gong's lab currently has openings for graduate stud...

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Other affiliations: Chemistry, School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Carbone Cancer Center, UW Eye Research Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Program


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Aviad Hai


Assistant Professor

Contact: ahai@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3411

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Neural engineering, Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Nanoelectronics & Nanofabrication, Brain Machine Interfaces

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Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering


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Pamela Kreeger


Professor and Associate Chair of BME PhD Program

Contact: kreeger@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2915

Research interests: Systems biology, tissue engineered models of cell-ECM/cell-cell interactions, ovarian cancer, wound healing

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Other affiliations: Cell and Regenerative Biology, UW Carbone Cancer Center


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Wan-ju Li


Associate Professor

Contact: li@ortho.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1338

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Stem cell-based regenerative medicine, Musculoskeletal tissue engineering, Mesenchymal stem cell biology,   

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Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation


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Kip Ludwig


Associate Professor

Contact: kip.ludwig@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3544

Research interests: Neural Interfaces, 1 and 2 Photon Microscopy, Neuromodulation Therapies, Electroceuticals, Bioelectronic Medicines, Autonomic Nervous System, Deep Brain Stimulation, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain-Computer Int...

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Kristyn Masters


Vilas Distinguished Professor, H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow, & Department Vice Chair

Contact: kmasters@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4052

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: In vitro disease modeling, Cardiovascular disease pathogenesis and treatment, Tumor tissue engineering

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Megan Mcclean


Associate Professor

Contact: mmcclean@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0416

Research interests:


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Beth Meyerand


Professor

Contact: memeyerand@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1685

Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research interests: The development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) based acquisition and post-processing methods to visualize diffusion and activation in the human brain.

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Also: Radiology


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William L. Murphy


Harvey D. Spangler Professor & H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow

Contact: wlmurphy@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9978

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Creation of new biomaterials using bioinspired approaches, Using biomaterials to define the stem cell microenvironment, Development of biomaterials for tissue regeneration (tissue engineering), New approaches f...

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Krishanu Saha


Associate Professor

Contact: ksaha@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4313

Research interests: Personalized and Regenerative Medicine, Biomaterials Engineering, Stem Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Signal transduction, Systems biology, Synthetic biology, Evolution & optimization of signaling pro...

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Melissa Skala


Carol Skornicka Chair; RRF Daniel M. Albert Chair; Professor

Contact: mcskala@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4108

Research interests: Optical imaging, Tissue engineering, Cancer, Metabolism, Immunology and cancer immunotherapy, Machine Learning, High-throughput tool development, Cell-cell interactions, Cellular heterogeneity, Translational re...

Other affiliations: Medical Physics


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Darryl G. Thelen


John Bollinger Chair of Mechanical Engineering
& Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor

Contact: dgthelen@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1902

Also: College of Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Dynamics and control of human movement, Wearable sensors in biomechanics, Neuromuscular adaptation with age, injury and disease, Imaging of soft tissue mechanics, Application of biomechanics in orthopedics, reh...

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Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation


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Pallavi Tiwari


Visiting Associate Professor

Contact: ptiwari9@wisc.edu

Research interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Biomedical Image Analysis, MRI, Radiomics, Radiogenomics,  Digital Pathology, Oncology, Neurological Disorders, Prognostic/predictive/t...

Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Radiology, UW Carbone Cancer Center


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Justin Williams


Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: jwilliams@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-3952

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Neural Engineering, Functional Neurosurgery, BioMEMS, Neural Rehabilitation, Neural Prostheses, Applied Neuroscience

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Colleen Witzenburg


Assistant Professor

Contact: witzenburg@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3332

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests:

    Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Physiology, Computational Modeling, Tissue Growth, Remodeling, and Failure, Soft tissue Characterization and Mechanical Testing, Congenital H...

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    Other affiliations: Pediatrics


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Filiz Yesilkoy


Assistant Professor

Contact: filiz.yesilkoy@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5112

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Biosensors, Nanophotonics, Nanobiotechnology, Bioimaging and microscopy techniques, Spectroscopy, Biomedical devices and instrumentation, Micro-Nano Fabrication, Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-chip devices

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Other affiliations: Chemistry


 

Teaching Faculty

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Amit Nimunkar


Associate Teaching Professor

Contact: ajnimunkar@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1008


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John Puccinelli


Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program and Associate Teaching Professor

Contact: john.puccinelli@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3573

Research interests: Assessment, advising, curriculum, instruction, mentorship, inclusion and educational innovation - developing hands on approaches to teaching especially related to biomaterials, tissue/cellular engineering, biom...

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Tracy Jane Puccinelli


Teaching Assistant Professor


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Darilis Suarez-Gonzalez


Associate Chair of the Masters Degree Program and Teaching Faculty II


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Aaron Suminski


Senior Scientist

Contact: asuminski@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6963

Research interests: Neural Control of Upper Limb Movement, Brain-Machine Interface, Functional Neuroimaging, Development of MR Compatible Devices


 

Emeritus

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Ed Bersu


Professor Emeritus

Contact: etbersu@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1956


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Willis J. Tompkins


Professor Emeritus

Contact: tompkins@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1581

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Microcomputer-based biomedical instrumentation, real-time biomedical digital signal processing, biomedical computing


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Mitchell E. Tyler


Senior Lecturer & Researcher - Emeritus

Contact: mitchell.tyler@wisc.edu, (608) 334-7787

Research interests: Neural Engineering, Neural Rehabilitation, Noninvasive Neuromodulation (NINM), Electrocutaneous Stimulation, Biomechanics, Biomaterials

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John G Webster


Professor Emeritus

Contact: john.webster@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1574

Research interests: Medical instrumentation, implantable intracranial pressure monitor, safety of less-lethal electromuscular incapacitation device (EMD): stun guns and Tasers, biopotential amplifiers and interference, bioelectrod...


 

Adjunct or Faculty Affiliates

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Jose Ayuso-dominguez


Assistant Professor

Contact: ayusodomingu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5538

Other affiliations: School of Medicine and Public Health


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Jason Cantor


Investigator (Morgridge); Assistant Professor (UW-Madison)

Contact: jcantor@morgridge.org, (608) 316-4565

Research interests: Cellular Metabolism, Cancer biology, Immunology, Metabolomics, Functional Genomics, Bioengineering

Other affiliations: Biochemistry


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Christian Capitini


Associate Professor

Contact: ccapitini@pediatrics.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2415

Research interests: Basic, translational and clinical research of pediatric cancer, Adoptive cell therapies (NK cell and CAR T cell infusions), Graft-versus-host-disease, Acute Radiation Syndrome, Mesenchymal stromal cells, Macrop...


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Wendy Crone


Karen Thompson Medhi Professor

Contact: crone@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-8384

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Experimental mechanics of materials, characterization hydrogels and biomaterials, therapeutic medical devices, stem cell mechanics


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Elizabeth Felton


Assistant Professor

Contact: felton@neurology.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0755

Research interests: Relationship between the menstrual cycle, seizures, and ketosis in women on dietary treatment for epilepsy, Developing methods to use quantitative EEG, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological testing to better und...

Other affiliations: Neurology


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Aaron S. Field


Professor

Contact: as.field@hosp.wisc.edu

Research interests: MR tracking of myelination following glial cell transplantation, Quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of white matter disease, including diffusion tensor imaging

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Other affiliations: Radiology


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Christian Franck


Bjorn Borgen Professor

Contact: cfranck@wisc.edu, (608) 265-8481

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Experimental mechanics including digital image and volume correlation methods and 3D microscopy techniques.  Soft matter and cell mechanics including cellular traumatic brain injury.   

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Bernadette Gillick


Associate Professor, Director Waisman Pediatric Neuromodulation Laboratory,
Director of Research Design- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Contact: bgillick@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7457

Research interests: Dr. Gillick combines her 30-year clinical career as a pediatric physical therapist with a PhD in Rehabilitation Science and Neuroscience to study novel assessment and intervention tools to advance lifelong outc...


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Susan Hagness


Philip Dunham Reed Professor

Contact: susan.hagness@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5739

Research interests: Bioelectromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, dielectric spectroscopy, FDTD theory and applications, including multi-physics solvers, microwave diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for biological and me...

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Other affiliations: University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center


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Timothy J. Hall


Professor

Contact: tjhall@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9459

Also: Medical Physics

Research interests: Medical ultrasound, Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media, Characterization of media based on interactions with ultrasonic waves, Viscoelasticity, Nonlinear hyperelasticity, Measurement of the fundamental mec...

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Bryan Heiderscheit


Professor

Contact: heiderscheit@ortho.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5428

Research interests: Neuromuscular adaptations to injury and aging, Gait mechanics, Running injuries, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation,  

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Other affiliations: Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology, Institute on Aging, School of Medicine and Public Health


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Corinne Henak


Assistant Professor

Contact: chenak@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1619

Research interests: Mechanical and biological responses of cartilage to injury, Orthopedic soft tissue materials characterization, Finite element modeling

Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation


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Diego Hernando


Assistant Professor

Contact: dhernando@wisc.edu

Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Radiology


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Seungpyo Hong


Milton J. Henrichs Chair Professor

Contact: seungpyo.hong@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0699

Research interests: Biomimetic nanotechnology, Nano-bio interactions, Targeted drug delivery for immunotherapy, Liquid biopsy, Cancer diagnostics/prognostics, Surface engineering



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Meyer Jackson


Professor

Contact: meyer.jackson@wisc.edu

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Other affiliations: Biophysics, Neuroscience


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Hongrui Jiang


Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering

Contact: hongruijiang@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9418

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: MicroElectroMechanical System, Microsensors and microactuators, BioMEMS and micro-optics, Microfluidics, Lab on chips, Biomimetics and bioinspiration

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Kevin Johnson


Assistant Professor

Contact: kmjohnson3@wisc.edu

Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Radiology


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Bhuvana Krishnaswamy


Assistant Professor

Contact: bhuvana@ece.wisc.edu, (608) 265-7849

Research interests: Biological Networks, Wireless Networks, Low-power wireless system, Internet-of-Things


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Hau Le


Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director of Pediatric Surgical Oncology,
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Contact: leh@surgery.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0466


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Hau- Le


Assistant Professor

Contact: leh@surgery.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0466

Research interests: Our laboratory is developing organoid models of pediatric and adult solid cancers such as neuroblastoma, Wilms, and glioblastoma to recapitulate the disease in humans better. We then use these organoid models t...

Other affiliations: Surgery


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Fred Lee


MD

Contact: ftlee@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0885


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Elebeoba May


Associate Professor

Contact: emay5@wisc.edu


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Alan McMillan


Associate Professor (CHS)

Contact: abmcmillan@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2622

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), PET/MR, PET/CT, machine learning, deep learning

Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Radiology


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Joshua Medow


Associate Professor

Contact: medow@neurosurg.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0485

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Neuroscience


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Jacob Notbohm


Associate Professor

Contact: jknotbohm@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0030

Also: Engineering Physics

Research interests: Solid mechanics | biomechanics | cell mechanics | biomaterials | collective cell migration | optical microscopy | adhesion


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Sean P. Palecek


Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor

Contact: sppalecek@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8931

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Cellular engineering, tissue engineering, stem cells, cell and protein biosensors

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Robert G. Radwin


Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor

Contact: rradwin@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6596

Research interests: Occupational ergonomics and biomechanics, Ergonomics design of manually operated products, hand tools and equipment, Measurements and methods for assessing exposure to physical stress in the workplace, Ca...

Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery


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Amish N. Raval


Assistant Professor

Contact: anr@medicine.wisc.edu, (608) 263-6146

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Other affiliations: Medicine


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Scott B. Reeder


Associate Professor

Contact: sb.reeder@hosp.wisc.edu, (608) 265-9964

Research interests: Research interests are in the areas of cardiovascular and abdominal MRI, particularly in the development of rapid and quantitative imaging techniques, including rapid cardiac imaging methods, and novel fat-wate...

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Other affiliations: Radiology


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Alejandro Roldan-alzate


Associate Professor

Contact: roldan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3696

Research interests: Cardiovascular fluid dynamics, Medical imaging based computational fluid dynamics, Patient specific in vitro experiments, Patient specific virtual surgery, In vivo and In vitro 4D flow MRI, Particle Image Veloc...


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Ari Rosenberg


Assistant Professor


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Josh Roth


Assistant Professor

Contact: jdroth2@wisc.edu

Research interests: Research in the lab utilizes a combination of experimental and computational methodologies and falls under three primary themes: ​     1. Transform the planning of personalized treatments for m...

Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation


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Eric V. Shusta


Howard Curler Distinguished Professor and R. Byron Bird Department Chair

Contact: eshusta@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1092

Research interests: Brain drug delivery, blood-brain barrier modeling, biopharmaceutical design, protein engineering

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Other affiliations: Neurological Surgery


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Michael Speidel


Associate Professor


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Masatoshi Suzuki


Associate Professor

Contact: masatoshi.suzuki@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4264

Research interests: Applications of stem cell technology for neuromusuclar and musculoskeletal diseases, bioengineered in vitro modeling to understand skeletal muscle biology and diseases, regenerative medicine, cell-based therapy...

Research interests:

    Application of stem cells to developmental modeling and cell-based therapy for neuromuscular disorders


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Susan Thibeault


Professor

Contact: thibeault@surgery.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0121

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Other affiliations: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, Surgery, UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research


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Andrew Wentland


Assistant Professor

Contact: alwentland@wisc.edu

Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Renal Cell Carcinoma

Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Radiology


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John–Paul Yu


Assistant Professor

Contact: jpyu@uwhealth.org, (608) 265-4792

Research interests: Systems neuroscience, Austism Spectrum Disorder, Schizophrenia, RNA-Seq, Mass Spectroscopy Proteomics, MRI, MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Cellular Redox

Other affiliations: Radiology