Affiliate Faculty
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
David Auth, Chairman, Boston Scientific
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Physics, Georgetown University, 1969
Optics bioengineering lasers instrumentation and new-product development
Daniel Baker, President, Kinetic Research and Design
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 1993
Sagittal plane dynamics of the human spine in vivo
Hugh Barrett, Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Lipid Kinetics, University of Adelaide, Australia, 1989
Biomathematics and modeling methodology; simulation analyses; lipid and lipoprotein metabolism
David Basiji, Co-Founder and CTO, Amnis Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1997
Development of high throughput, multispectral optical imaging architecture and high throughput biological sample processing system
Dan Beard
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1997
Felix Blyakhman, Professor, Physics Department, Ural State University
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Physiology, Medical Academy, Krasnodar, Russia, 1986
ScD, Physiology, Institute Transplantology and Artificial Organs, Moscow, Russia, 1996
Biological motility; myocardial contractility; heart pump function
David Burns, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Analytical Chemistry, University of Washington, 1984
Biomedical spectroscopy; multi-dimensional optical microscopy; multi-wavelength analysis
Allison Campbell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Physical Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991
Biomaterials; inferfacial control of crystallization; interfacial control of protein adsorption
Claudio Cobelli, University of Padova
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Padova, 1970
Modeling and identification of physiological systems, especially endocrine-metabolic and pharmacokinetic systems
Thomas Fare, Director of Methods Development and Automation, Rosetta Inpharmatics
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
DNA array fabrication; gene expression profiling assays for drug discovery and development; proteomics
Martha Feldman, Drug and Device Development Company, Inc.
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
BA in Biology, Brooklyn College, 1965
Clinical research; FDA regulatory strategies and submissions; good clinical practices training
B. Robert Franza, Director and Founder, Cell Systems Initiative; Director, Seattle Science Foundation
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
MD, Georgetown University, 1979.
Computational and Integrative Bioengineering
Bruce Gaber, Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Molecular Interfacial Interactions, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Biochemistry, University of Southern California, 1968
Crystal engineering at the inorganic/interface; application of scanning probe microscopy to molecular-level fabrication; molecular design of lipid microstructures
Wayne Gombotz, Vice President of Pharmaceutical Operations, Omeros Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1988
Polymeric biomaterials; controlled release systems for protein and peptides; biodegradable polymers
Henry Hess, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
Active movement on the nanoscale; biomolecular motors; self-assembly; adaptive materials; biosensors; nanobiotechnology
Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
MD, Johns Hopkins, 1964
PhD, Immunoglobulines-structure, Genetics, and Evolution, California Institute of Technology, 1968
Molecular immunology; cancer biology; molecular evolution; systems biology; stem cell biology
Scot Land, Managing Partner, Encompass Ventures
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
BS (with honors) in Philosophy, College of the Ozarks, 1976
Kathleen Leach, Immunex Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Biology and Medicine, Brown University, 1997
Drug delivery techniques
Thomas N. Lewis, Senior Research Engineer, Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD)
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1994
BioAcoustics ultrasound; enhanced drug delivery; underwater hearing in animals
Zheng Li, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Teranode Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994
Functional imaging of cardiac metabolism; simulation resource in mass transport and exchange; PET imaging of cardiac sympathetic function
Gary Maki, Director, Center for Advanced Microelectronic Biomolecular Research, University of Idaho
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri at Rolla, 1969
Ultra low power VLSI; microelectronics; high performance data compression; space research
Ravi Managuli, Hitachi Medical Corporation Research and Development Center
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2000
Design and develop programmable ultrasound systems using advanced digital signal processors, known as mediaprocessors
Andrew McCulloch, Department of Bioengineering, University of California-San Diego
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Physiology and Engineering Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1986
biomechanics of ventricular modeling; myocyte tissue engineering; computational biology
John J. Medina, Founder, Talaris Research Institute
National Faculty Fellow, Continuing Medical Education, Inc.
PhD in Molecular Biology, Washington State University, 1988
Molecular factors influencing in utero brain development; genetics of psychiatric disorders; role of innate information processing features in human learning
Mark Moehring, Vice President of Research and Development, Spencer Technologies, Inc.
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 1994
Low frequency Doppler - Brain Velocimetry; venous embolus detector; emolus characterization; ultrasound enhanced thrombolysis and monitor; transcranial Doppler; intracranial doppler
Katsuhiko Nakamae, Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, Japan
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
Dr. of Engineering in Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan, 1967
Biomaterials; polymer materials science; surface and interfacial chemistry of composite materials
Ivan Nestorov, Scientific Fellow, ZymoGenetics
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, 1990
Developing and implementing engineering approaches and mathematical models for integration of pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) information during the drug research and development process
John Overbeck, Assistant Professor, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
MD, University of Washington, 1995
Sayan Pathak,
Senior Analyst, Informatics, Allen Institute For Brain Science
Affiliate Assistant Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Washington, 2000.
Segmentation; Multivariate Image Analysis; Image Fusion and Statistics;
Search technology and image serving; Machine Learning; Computational Neuroscience; Medical Imaging; Computer Vision Applications challening clinical problems
Wayne Quinton, Founder, Quinton Instruments
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
BS (with honors) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1959
John Reid, Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1965
Medical imaging with ultrasound; electronics
Robert S. Reneman, Professor, Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
MD, University of Amsterdam, 1961
PhD, Clinical Physiology, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1968
Cardiovascular physiology; fluid dynamics; vascular ultrasound
Peter Senter, Seattle Genetics, Inc.
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Chemistry, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1981
Drug delivery strategies that involve targeted cancer chemotherapy; development of antibody conjugates and anticancer prodrugs; drug design and development; bioconjugate chemistry
Ilya Shmulevich, Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 1997
Gene Regulatory Networks;
Genomic and Systems-Level Characterization of Cellular Differentiation and Homeostasis; Cancer Genomics; Microarray Technology
Christopher Viney, Professor, Division of Engineering, University of California Merced
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD in Polymer Science, Cambridge University, 1983
Polymeric, liquid crystalline and biological materials; microstructure-property relationships; phase transformations
Viola Vogel, Institute for Biologically Oriented Materials, Department of Materials Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
Dr. phil. nat. in Physics, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 1987
Molecular assembly processes at interfaces; nanoscale surface patterning; molecular motors and switches; biomaterials; assembly of extracellular matrix proteins; cell/surface interactions; biomineralization; surface analysis; optical spectroscopy and microscopy; nonlinear optical techniques
Ger van der Vusse, Professor, Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Affiliate Professor with Bioengineering
MSc in Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, 1971
PhD, Chemical Endocrinology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1975
Heart energy metabolism and function; cardiac hypertrophy and failure; diabetic cardiomyopathy; myocardial fatty acid uptake and utilization; cardiac calcium homeostasis
Bernhard H. Weigl, Co-Founder, MicroPlumbers Microsciences LLC
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD (with distinction) in Analytical Chemistry, Joanneum Resarch and Karl- Franzens-University, Graz, Austria, 1993
Rapid point-of-care assays for developing country needs; lab-on-a-chip platform for infectious disease diagnosis; imunochromatographic technologies; microfluidics and microsensors