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 C. Auth, PhD
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Physics, Georgetown University, 1969
Optics bioengineering lasers instrumentation and new-product development
Daniel Baker, PhD
President, Kinetic Research and Design
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 1993
Sagittal plane dynamics of the human spine in vivo
Hugh Barrett, PhD
Professor, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia
Affiliate Associate Professor with Bioengineering
PhD, Lipid Kinetics, University of Adelaide, Australia, 1989
Biomathematics and modeling methodology; simulation analyses; lipid and lipoprotein metabolism
David Basiji, PhD
Co-Founder and CTO, Amnis Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1997
Development of high throughput, multispectral optical imaging architecture and high throughput biological sample processing system
Dan Beard, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Affiliate Associate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1997
Computational biology and bioinformatics, molecular and cellular physiology, metabolism
Ram Bedi, PhD
President, Puget Ultrasound, Inc.
Affiliate Assistant Professor
PhD, Electronics Engineering, University of Wales, UK, 1989
Non-invasive methods for detecting atherosclerosis and early stage cancer
Felix Blyakhman, PhD, ScD
Professor, Physics Department, Ural State University
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Analytical Chemistry, University of Washington, 1984
Biomedical spectroscopy; multi-dimensional optical microscopy; multi-wavelength analysis
Claudio Cobelli, PhD, University of Padova
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Padova, 1970
Modeling and identification of physiological systems, especially endocrine-metabolic and pharmacokinetic systems
Thomas L. Fare, PhD
Director of Methods Development and Automation, Rosetta Inpharmatics
Affiliate Associate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
DNA array fabrication; gene expression profiling assays for drug discovery and development; proteomics
Martha Feldman, BA
Drug and Device Development Company, Inc.
Affiliate Associate Professor, Bioengineering
BA, Biology, Brooklyn College, 1965
Clinical research; FDA regulatory strategies and submissions; good clinical practices training
B. Robert Franza, MD
Executive Scientific Director, Seattle Science Foundation
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
MD, Georgetown University, 1979
Computational and Integrative Bioengineering
Bruce P. Gaber, PhD
Vision Rising LLC
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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 R. Gombotz, PhD
Vice President of Pharmaceutical Operations, Omeros Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1988
Polymeric biomaterials; controlled release systems for protein and peptides; biodegradable polymers
Samantha Harris, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, UC-Davis
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, University of Michigan, 1995
Molecular mechanisms of cardiac contraction, role of contractile proteins in heart disease
Henry Hess, PhD
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Active movement on the nanoscale; biomolecular motors; self-assembly; adaptive materials; biosensors; nanobiotechnology
Leroy E. Hood, MD, PhD
President, Institute for Systems Biology
Affiliate Professor, 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 E. Land, BS
Managing Director, Technology Development Corporation
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
BS (with honors) in Philosophy, College of the Ozarks, 1976
Kathleen J. Leach, PhD
Product Quality Director-Amgen, Inc.
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Biology and Medicine, Brown University, 1997
Drug delivery techniques
Thomas N. Lewis, PhD
Senior Research Engineer,
Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD)
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1994
BioAcoustics ultrasound; enhanced drug delivery; underwater hearing in animals
Zheng Li, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Teranode Corporation
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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
Xingde Li, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Optical Coherence Tomography, Fluorescence tomography based on diffuse photons, fiber-optic endomiscroscopy for two-photon fluorescence, second harmonic generation and OCT imagin; smart fluorescent polymeric nanocomplexes and bio-inert structured metallic nanocomplexes for translational molecular imaging, therapy and potentially controlled release.
Gary K. Maki, PhD
Director, Center for Advanced Microelectronic
Biomolecular Research, University of Idaho
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri at Rolla, 1969
Ultra low power VLSI; microelectronics; high performance data compression; space research
Ravi Managuli, PhD
Hitachi Medical Corporation Research and Development Center
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2000
Design and develop programmable ultrasound systems using advanced digital signal processors, known as mediaprocessors
Andrew D. McCulloch, PhD
Department of Bioengineering, University of California-San Diego
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Physiology and Engineering Science,
University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1986
Biomechanics of ventricular modeling; myocyte tissue engineering; computational biology
John J. Medina, PhD
Founder, Talaris Research Institute
National Faculty Fellow, Continuing Medical Education, Inc.
Affiliate Associate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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, PhD
Vice President of Research and Development,
Spencer Technologies, Inc.
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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, Dr. of Eng.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, Japan
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
Director of Engineering in Polymer Chemistry,
Kyoto University, Japan, 1967
Biomaterials; polymer materials science; surface and interfacial chemistry of composite materials
Ivan Nestorov, PhD
Scientific Fellow, ZymoGenetics
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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, MD
Radiologist
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
MD, University of Washington, 1995
Bone scans, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography, cardiac testing
Sayan Pathak,
PhD
Senior Analyst, Informatics, Allen Institute For Brain Science
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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, BS
Founder, Quinton Instruments
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
BS (with honors) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1959
John M. Reid, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1965
Medical imaging with ultrasound; electronics
Robert S. Reneman, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
MD, University of Amsterdam, 1961
PhD, Clinical Physiology, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1968
Cardiovascular physiology; fluid dynamics; vascular ultrasound
Peter Senter, PhD
Seattle Genetics, Inc.
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, 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, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Affiliate Associate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 1997
Gene Regulatory Networks;
Genomic and Systems-Level Characterization of Cellular Differentiation and Homeostasis; Cancer Genomics; Microarray Technology
Ger van der Vusse, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
MSc, 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
Paolo Vicini, PhD
Research Fellow, Biotherapeutics and Translational Research
Department of Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism
Pfizer Global Research and Development
PhD, Bioengineering, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy, 1996
Structural and statistical modeling of biological systems; Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Christopher Viney, PhD
Professor, School of Engineering,
University of California Merced
Affiliate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD, Polymer Science, Cambridge University, 1983
Polymeric, liquid crystalline and biological materials; microstructure-property relationships; phase transformations
Viola Vogel, PhD
Institute for Biologically Oriented Materials, Department of Materials Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland
Affiliate Professor, 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
Bernhard H. Weigl, PhD
Principal Investigator, PATH
Affiliate Associate Professor, Bioengineering
PhD (with distinction), 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
