James B. Bassingthwaighte, Professor
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Adjunct with Biomathematics and Radiology
PhD (physiology), Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, 1964
MD, University of Toronto, 1955

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Cardiovascular mass transport; cardiac metabolism; PET imaging; fractal physiology; physiome project; large scale systems modeling and analysis
Office: Foege N210G • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-2012 • email

Karl F. Böhringer, Professor
Joint with Electrical Engineering
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Office: EE/CSE 234 • Box 352500
Contact: (206) 221-5177• email

James D. Bryers, Professor
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Adjunct with Chemical Engineering
PhD (chemical engineering), Rice University, 1980

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Bacterial adhesion; bacterial biofilm; biomaterials that heal while preventing bacterial infection; plasmid retention, expression, and transfer within biofilm communities; gene delivery
Office: Foege N310C • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 221-5876 • email

David G. Castner, Professor
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Joint with Chemical Engineering
Director, National ESCA & Surface Analysis Center
PhD (physical chemistry), University of California Berkeley, 1979

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Surface analysis; surface modification; biomaterials
Office: Foege 310G • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 543-8094, 685-1229 • email

Daniel T. Chiu, A. Bruce Montgomery Professor of Chemistry, joint with Bioengineering
Ph.D (Chemistry), Stanford University, 1998
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Research Themes:
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Nanomaterials; Advance optical instrumentation; Microfluidics; Single-molecule studies; Single-cell biology; Oncology; Synaptic Function
Office: Bagley 204 • Box 351700
Contact: (206) 543-1655 • email

Eric H. Chudler, Research Associate Professor
PhD (psychology), University of Washington, 1985

Research Themes:
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Parkinson’s disease, pain, science education and outreach
Office: Foege N361 • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 616-6899 • email

Anthony Convertine, Research Assistant Professor

Office: Foege N510E • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 221-5113 •email

Lawrence Crum, Research Professor
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PhD (physics), University of Ohio, 1967

Research Theme:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy

Research: Acoustic hemostasis; HIFU therapy; ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery; extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; sonoluminescence
Office: OOB 208 • Box 355640
Contact: (206) 685-8622 • email

Francesco Curra, Assistant Professor, Applied Physics
PhD (Bioengineering), University of  Washington, 2001

Research Theme:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy

Research: Ultrasound Transducer Development; Image-guided noninvasive HIFU Therapy; Ultrasound-based dentistry; High Performance Computing
Office: APL • Box 355640
Contact: (206) 543-9848 • email

Valerie Daggett, Professor
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Adjunct with Biochemistry, Biomedical and Health Informatics
Director, Biomolecular Structure and Design Program (BMSD)
PhD (pharmaceutical chemistry), University of California, San Francisco, 1990

Research Themes:
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Protein folding; dynameomics/bioinformatics; extremophile proteins; protein modulators; protein design; unfolding diseases; protein complexes; single nucleotide polymorphisms
Office: Foege N310B • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-7420 • email

Albert Folch, Associate Professor
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Adjunct in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Oral Biology
PhD (surface science and nanotechnology), University of Barcelona, Spain, 1994

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Miniature cell culture tools for quantitative neurobiology studies, with a focus on axon guidance and synaptogenesis; BioMEMS
Office: Foege N430N • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-2257 • email

Elain Fu, Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Physics) University of Maryland, College Park
Sc.B. (Physics) Brown University

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided TherapyTechnology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Point-of-care diagnostics
Microfluidic assay development
Surface plasmon resonance sensing
Office: Foege N510G • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-9891 • email

Lara Gamble, Research Associate Professor
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PhD (physical chemistry), University of Washington, 1996

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Surface analysis; surface modification; biomaterials; microarray chemistry
Office: Foege N310G • Box 351750
Contact: (206) 616-4173 • email

Xiaohu Gao, Associate Professor
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PhD (chemistry) Indiana University, Bloomington, 2004

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Engineered nanostructures for detection; analysis and treatment of human diseases; cardiovascular diseases; infectious diseases; neurological diseases
Office: Foege N530M • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 543-6562 • email

Cecilia Giachelli, Professor
PhD (pharmacology), University of Washington, 1987

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Tissue engineering; calcification; cell-material interactions; foreign body response; ectopic calcification
Office: Foege N330L • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 543-0205 • email

Deok-Ho Kim, Assistant Professor
PhD (biomedical engineering),
Johns Hopkins University, 2010
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Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research:  Stem cell engineering; tissue engineering; BioMEMS; micro- and nanofabricated biomaterials; mechanobiology and mechanotransduction;

Office: Foege N410G or 815 Mercer St. Rm 418 • Box 355061
Contact (206) 616-1133 • email

Patrick Koelsch, Research Assistant Professor
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Habilitation (physical chemistry), University of Heidelberg, 2010
PhD (physics), Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interface Science, 2005

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Surface Analysis, Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy, Structure-Function Models for Biomolecules, Extracellular Matrix
Office: MolES G21 • Box 351653
Contact: (206) 543-1766 • email

James J. Lai, Research Assistant Professor
PhD (chemical engineering), Polytechnic University, 2005

Research Themes:
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research:
Office: Foege N510F • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-3949 • email

Barry R. Lutz, Research Assistant Professor
PhD (chemical engineering), University of Washington, 2003

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Biosensor chmical transport & kinetics; sound-based microfluidic systems; single-cell manipulation; multiplex optical detection; point-of-care diagnostics
Office: Foege N530N • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-9891 • Fax (206) 685-3300 • email

Charles E. Murry, Professor
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Joint with Pathology
PhD (pathology) Duke University, 1988
MD, Duke University, 1989

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Myocardial infarction; stem cells; tissue repair and regeneration; tissue engineering; angiogenesis
Office: 815 Mercer, Rm 453 • Box 358050
Contact: (206) 616-8685 • Fax 897-1540 • email

Christopher Neils, Senior Lecturer

PhD (biomedical engineering), The University of Texas at Austin, 2000
BS (aeronautics & astronautics), MIT, 1990

Teaching Focus: Medical electronic devices, feedback control systems, fluid & structural dynamics, signal & image processing, senior capstone design projects

Office: Foege N310E • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-3021 • Fax 685-3300 • email

Matthew O'Donnell, Professor
PhD (solid state physics), University of Notre Dame, 1976

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy

Research: Exploring new imaging modalities in biomedicine, including elasticity imaging, in vivo microscopy, optoacoustic arrays, optoacoustic contrast agents for molecular imaging and therapy, thermal strain imaging, and catheter based devices.
Office: Loew 371 • Box 352180
Contact: (206) 543-1829 • Fax 616-0666 • email

Gerald H. Pollack, Professor
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PhD (bioengineering), University of Pennsylvania, 1968

Research Themes:
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Unexpectedly profound ordering of water at interfaces; role of water and light in natural processes; molecular basis of biological motion; engineering of water-based technologies for solving societal problems.
Office: Foege N210A • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-1880 • email

Suzie Pun, Robert F. Rushmer Associate Professor in Bioengineering
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PhD (chemical engineering), California Institute of Technology, 2000

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Non-viral gene delivery; Delivery of drugs & molecular contrast agents; Intracellular trafficking
Office: Foege N530P • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-3488 • email

Buddy D. Ratner, Professor & Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization
Joint with Chemical Engineering
Director, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB-21)
PhD (polymer chemistry), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1972

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Synthesis and characterization of polymeric biomaterials; surface analysis by ESCA, SIMS, STM, FTIR-ATR, AFM; plasma deposition of thin films
Office: Foege N330J • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-1005, 685-0676 • email

Daniel M. Ratner, Assistant Professor
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PhD (chemistry), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine

Research: Glycotechnology; modification of surfaces with glycans; carbohydrate mediated host-pathogen interactions; glycoproteomics
Office: Foege N210D • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685 2840 • email

Michael Regnier, Professor and Vice Chair
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PhD (biology-neurobiology), University of Southern California, 1991

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Molecular mechanisms of regulation and chemo-mechanics in heart and skeletal muscle; computational biophysical models; experimental models of cardiac repair
Office: Foege N310F or 815 Mercer St., Rm. S184 •
Box 355061
Contact: (206) 616-4325, 221-0504 • email

Jay Rubinstein, Professor
Joint with Otolaryngology
Director, Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center PhD (bioengineering), University of Washington, 1988
MD University of Washington, 1987

Research Theme:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine

Research: Computational biophysics; clinical and basic electrophysiology; human psychophysics; clinical trials of new cochlear implant technology
Office: CHDD 176 • Box 357923
Contact: (206) 616-6655 • email

Joan E. Sanders, Professor
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Adjunct with Rehabilitation Medicine, Mechanical Engineering
PhD (bioengineering), University of Washington, 1991

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research: Tissue engineering for cardiac applications; design of novel fiber-porous biomaterials; skin adaptation to mechanical stress; prosthetic engineering
Office: Foege N430J • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 221-5872, 685-8296 • email

Herbert Sauro, Associate Professor
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PhD (computational biochemistry), Oxford Brooks University, UK,1986

Research Theme:
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Metabolic and signal transduction networks, synthetic biology, simulation, non-linear dynamics, control analysis, software development.
Office: Foege N410A • Box 355061
Contact: 206-685-2119 • email

Marta Scatena, Research Associate Professor
PhD (cell biology), University of Padova, Italy, 1992

Research Theme:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine

Research: Biomaterials; inflammation; cardiovascular disease; tissue engineering
Office: SLU • Box 358056
Contact: (206) 543-5789 • email

Narendra P. Singh, Research Professor
MS (surgery), King George’s Medical College, India, 1976
MBBS (medicine & surgery),
King George’s Medical College, India, 1972

Research Theme:
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: DNA damage/repair; apoptosis; aging and cancer
Office: Foege N233B • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-2060 • email

Yanfeng (Mei) Speer, Research Assistant Professor
PhD (biochemistry), University of Helsinki, Finland, 1999
Master of Medicine, Tongji Medical University, China, 1990

Research Theme:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine

Research: Ectopic calcification; cell differentiation and phenotype modulation; gene targeting; tissue engineering
Office: Foege N310D • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 543-3983 • email

Patrick S. Stayton, Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor in Bioengineering
Director, Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute (MolES)
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PhD (biochemistry), University of Illinois-Champaign, 1989

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Protein engineering; biomaterials; drug delivery; biomineralization
Office: Foege N530L • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-8148, 685-0163 • email

Colin Studholme, Professor
Joint with Pediatrics
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BEng: Bradford University, England, 1990
MSc: Edinburgh University, Scotland 1991
PhD: University of London, England 1997

Research Themes
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Office:HSB RR439A • Box 356320
Contact: (206) 221-7022 • email

Alyssa Taylor, Full Time Lecturer

PhD (biomedical engineering),University of Virginia, 2010
BS (biological systems engineering), University of California, Davis, 2003

Teaching Focus:
senior capstone design projects
bioengineering design principles
ethics and decision making in bioengineering
tissue/vascular engineering
optimizing student learning outcomes through educational research

Office: Foege N430L • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 543-8533 • Fax 685-3300 • email

Wendy E. Thomas, Associate Professor
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PhD (bioengineering), University of Washington, 2003

Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Mechanics of Biological Adhesion
Office: Foege N430P • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 616-3947 • email

Rong Tian, Professor
Joint with Anesthesiology
MD, West China University of Medical Sciences, (1986)
PhD (pharmacology), Institute of Pharmacology (Denmark), 1992

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research:
Energy metabolism in cardiovascular diseases Mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic signaling
NMR spectroscopy and Imaging-guided spectroscopy
Office: Box 356540
Contact: (206) 543-8982 • email

Ruikang K. Wang, Professor
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PhD (optical engineering), University of Glasgow, 1995

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research:
Biomedical Optics/Biophotonics; Functional optical imaging using coherence gating (OCT) and confocal gating techniques;  Photoacoustic imaging; Laser Doppler, speckle and intrinsic optical signal imaging; Optical biopsy and functional imaging in tissue engineering; Light propagation in biological tissue
Office: Foege N410E • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 616-5025 • email

Paul Wiggins, Assistant Professor
Joint with Physics
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Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology

Research: Bacterial Ultrastructure, Bioimaging, Chromosome structure, DNA and membrane mechanics, DNA binding proteins
Office: Foege N410F • Box 355061
Contact: (626) 437-3761(mobile) • email

Kim Woodrow, Assistant Professor
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Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Mucosal pathogen transport and drug delivery; protein engineered viral mimics for mucosal immunity; topical microbicides & contraception; catalytic nucleic acids for diagnostics
Office: Foege N410D • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 685-6831 • email

Paul Yager, Professor & Hunter & Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair in Bioengineering
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Adjunct with Chemistry, Oral Biology, and Global Health
PhD (chemistry), University of Oregon, 1980

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
Technology for Expanding Access to Heathcare

Research: Microfluidic devices for chemical and biochemical measurement and analysis; point-of-care diagnostic instruments; global health
Office: Foege N530J • Box 355061
Contact: (206) 543-6126 • email

Chun Yuan, Professor
Joint with Radiology
Ph.D., (Medical Biophysics and Computing) University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1988

Research Themes:
Instrumentation, Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy

Research:Vulnerable plaque detection, Pathophysiology of atherosclerosis progression and regression
Office: 815 Mercer St.
Contact: 206-616-9346 • email

Ying Zheng, Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., (Biomedical Engineering) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008

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Research Themes:
Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Molecular and Cellular Engineering

Research:Fundamental structure and functions in living tissue and organ systems, Clinical applications for regenerative tissue and organs
Office: 815 Mercer St., Brotman Building, Room 420
Contact: 206-543-3223 • email