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Research Focus
Clinical therapies for central nervous system injury and disorder.
Research Interests
Stephanie Seidlits' research seeks to develop clinical therapies for central nervous system injury and disorder, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and glioma formation. Her approaches combine biomaterial microenvironments and advanced imaging tools to identify differences between the extracellular environment of diseased and healthy or developing and adult central nervous system tissues and exploit mechanistic discoveries to create novel therapies that target the local environment. Seidlits' long-term research goal is to translate biomaterial microenviroments to in vivo therapies using hydrogels, gene and protein delivery and cell replacement as building blocks.
Selected Publications
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Research Focus
Theoretical development, implementation, and clinical deployment of numerical methods for medical image analysis.
Research Interests
Dr. Castillo's current projects include developing deep learning methods for medical image processing, robust methods for computing pulmonary perfusion and ventilation imaging from non-contrast dynamic CT, pulmonary embolism detection from CT-derived functional imaging, and cancer radiotherapy dose-response modeling.
Selected Publications
Teaching Interests
Dr. Lindsay teaches Engineering Communication in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. In his course, he helps students develop skills in technical communication, team writing, public speaking, and engineering ethics. Dr. Lindsay also co-manages the Engineering Sentences program, a collaboration between the Cockrell School of Engineering and University Writing Center. In this program, he helps train writing center consultants to support engineering undergraduates in the writing of lab reports and other research-driven projects. He received his Ph.D. in English from UT Austin.
Research Focus
Neuroengineering, Bioelectronics, Biomaterials, Wearable Electronics, Nanotechnology
Selected Publications
Research Interests
Recent advances in bidirectional neural interfacing enable both improved neurosciences understanding and enhanced clinical diagnosis/therapy. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on the development of new tools to modulate and record neural activity from targeted neuronal populations using minimally-invasive methods. The research goal will be developing clinical neural interfacing therapies with the power and specificity afforded by optogenetics methods, using materials and electronic devices that are clinically translatable. In addition to clinical applications, the developed new tools can also be applied for neuroscience research.
Dr. Wang obtained his undergraduate degree in Materials Science from the University of Oxford and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. During his graduate studies with Professor Zhenan Bao, he worked on nanomaterials and polymers for flexible/wearable electronics. After his Ph.D. studies, he started his postdoctoral work with Professor Karl Deisseroth at Stanford Bioengineering, developing nanomaterial-based technologies for targeted modulation of neural activity. Dr. Wang has received several awards and fellowships including the Materials Research Society (MRS) Gold Graduate Student Award, NIH F32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship and NIH K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award.
All BME Ph.D. students must select a supervisor for their dissertation research. Students may work with any member of the BME Graduate Studies Committee (GSC), which is comprised of BME department faculty as well as faculty in related fields who are active participants in the biomedical engineering graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin. The GSC makes curriculum recommendations and is responsible for graduate program policies through the program’s Graduate Advisor. Responsibilities of the GSC include graduate student instruction, advising, and supervising theses, reports, and dissertations.
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- Track 1: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
- Track 2: Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering
- Track 3: Computational Biomedical Engineering
- Track 4: Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
Track 1: Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
BME Faculty
Adela Ben-Yakar
Research Interests: Femtosecond Laser Micro-Surgery (FLMS) and Two-photon Imaging using optical MEMS devices and Photonic Bandgap Fibers for cancer detection and treatment; Femtosecond laser micromachining of integrated devices for microfluidics. ben-yakar@mail.utexas.edu
Adam Bush
Research Interests: Novel MRI methods to explore human pathophysiology and make imaging safer, particularly for children. Novel blood flow and oximetry methods in cardiovascular disease, anemic disorders and cancers. adambush@utexas.edu
Edward Castillo
Research Interests: Theoretical development, implementation, and clinical deployment of numerical methods for medical image analysis. edward.castillo@utexas.edu
Andrew Dunn
Research Interests: Optical microscopy, functional brain imaging, molecular imaging, neuroscience. adunn@utexas.edu
Nanshu Lu
Research Interests: Mechanics of thin films on compliant substrates; mechanics of flexible electronics with extreme deformability and compliance; mechanics at bio-electronics interface; development of novel bio-integrated soft electronics for cardiac, neural and epidermal applications. nanshulu@utexas.edu
Jose del R. Millan
Research Interests: Brain-machine interfaces, neuroprosthetics, neurorehabilitation, neuroengineering, neuroscience. jose.millan@austin.utexas.edu
Sapun Parekh
Research Interests: Chemical and nonlinear microscopy; molecular basis of pathology; microscopy instrumentation; molecular physics of biomaterials; mechano-chemical coupling in cancer. sparekh@utexas.edu
Tyrone Porter
Research Interests: Image-guided ultrasound-mediated tumor ablation, Image-guided drug delivery, neurostimulation with focused ultrasound, photoacoustic imaging, controlled drug release, strategies to activate or enhance anticancer immunity, in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier. tmp6@utexas.edu
H. Grady Rylander
Research Interests: Vision research, biomedical sensors, laser applications, neuroprosthesis design. rylander@mail.utexas.edu
Chris Rylander
Research Interests: Manufacturing and design, biomechanical engineering and thermal/fluid systems. cgr@austin.utexas.edu
Samantha Santacruz
Research Interests: Neural engineering, brain-machine interfaces, neurotherapeutic devices, neuromodulation. srsantacruz@utexas.edu
James Tunnell
Research Interests: Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging; laser-tissue interactions. jtunnell@mail.utexas.edu
Thomas Yankeelov
Research interests: cancer imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, tumor modeling, predictive oncology, patient-specific modeling, computational oncology. thomas.yankeelov@utexas.edu
Evan Wang
Research Interests: Neuroengineering, bioelectronics, biomaterials, wearable electronics, nanotechnology. evanwang@utexas.edu
Tim H.C. Yeh
Research Interests: Nanobiosensor development, cancer biomarker detection; 3D molecular tracking and super-resolution imaging. tim.yeh@austin.utexas.edu
Non-BME Faculty at UT Austin
Ray Chen
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Nano-photonic passive and active devices for bio- and EM-wave sensing and interconnect applications, thin film guided-wave optical interconnection and packaging for 2D and 3D laser beam routing and steering, true time delay (TTD) wide band phased array antenna (PAA), and 3D printed micro-electronics and photonics. chen@ece.utexas.edu
Wilson S. Geisler
Psychology
Research Interests: Current projects are concerned with perceptual grouping, visual search, natural scene statistics, and the neurophysiology of primary visual cortex. geisler@psy.utexas.edu
Yi Lu
Chemistry
Research Interests: DNAzymes and DNA aptamers as highly sensitive and selective sensors for point-of-care diagnostics, biomedical imaging and gene editing. Functional DNA nanomaterials as theranostic agents for early detection of diseases such as cancers and targeted drug delivery. Engineering novel biocatalysts for synthetic biology and their biomedical applications. yi.lu@utexas.edu
Jonathan W. Valvano
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Bioinstrumentation, measurement of perfusion, tissue thermal properties, real-time temperature measurements, thermal modeling in tissue, embedded applications of microcomputers. valvano@mail.utexas.edu
Yuebing Zheng
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Digital nanomanufacturing, space-life detection, and global health and medicine. zheng@austin.utexas.edu
Non-BME, Non-UT Austin Faculty
Ming-Chieh Ding
Division Chief of Stroke and Vascular Neurology, UNC School of Medicine.
Research Interests: Stroke and brain injury pathophysiology, neural networks and network modulation in the setting of brain injury, vascular neuroprotection mechanisms. ming-chieh_ding@med.unc.edu
Chad Quarles
Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, Director, Translational Neuroimaging Innovation Program, MD Anderson
Research interests: neuroimaging, brain cancer imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, cancer neuroscience, neurohealth, image-guided surgery and radiotherapy, image-based biomarker discovery, medical image analysis, preclinical imaging.
ccquarles@mdanderson.org
Konstantin Sokolov
Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
Research Interests: optical imaging and spectroscopy of cancer; molecular imaging, multimodal contrast agents; nanoparticles and nanotechnology in molecular imaging. kostia@mail.utexas.edu
Track 2, Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering
BME Faculty
Aaron Baker
Research Interests: Cardiovascular biology, vascular mechanotransduction, and vascular drug delivery. abbaker@austin.utexas.edu
Amy Brock
Research Interests: Cancer systems biology, heterogeneity and cell state plasticity, gene regulatory networks, chemotherapy drug resistance, normal differentiation and differentiation therapy. amy.brock@utexas.edu
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
Research Interests: Tissue repair and regeneration. Polymer science, biomaterials, injectable bone grafts, chronic wound dressings, tissue-engineered ligaments, biovascular grafts. cosgriff.hernandez@utexas.edu
George Georgiou
Research Interests: Antibody engineering, enzyme engineering, protein folding in vivo. gg@che.utexas.edu
Nicholas Peppas
Research Interests: Biomaterials, controlled drug delivery, molecular modeling of protein structures in contact with biomaterials and tissues, modeling of biomedical devices, bionanotechnology and molecular recognition processes. peppas@che.utexas.edu
Tyrone Porter
Research Interests: Image-guided ultrasound-mediated tumor ablation, Image-guided drug delivery, neurostimulation with focused ultrasound, photoacoustic imaging, controlled drug release, strategies to activate or enhance anticancer immunity, in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier. tmp6@utexas.edu
Marissa Nichole Rylander
Research Interests: Multidisciplinary elements of bioheat transfer, nanomedicine, biomedical optics, tissue regeneration, and cancer engineering. mnr@austin.utexas.edu
Michael Sacks
Research Interests: Cardiovascular biomechanics; computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system; advanced constitutive models; biomechanical interactions of cell, tissue, and organ in native and engineered heart valves and myocardium. msacks@ices.utexas.edu
Stephanie Seidlits
Research Interests: Clinical therapies for central nervous system injury and disorder, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and glioma formation. stephanie.seidlits@utexas.edu
Jeanne Stachowiak
Research Interests: Biological membranes, biophysics, construction of minimal cell-like systems, biomaterials, drug delivery. jcstach@austin.utexas.edu
Laura J. Suggs
Research Interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, adult progenitor cells and vasculogenesis, biologically active materials. laura.suggs@engr.utexas.edu
Evan Wang
Research Interests: Neuroengineering, bioelectronics, biomaterials, wearable electronics, nanotechnology. evanwang@utexas.edu
Song (Stephen) Yi
Research Interests: Combining computational and experimental expertise to build a quantitative understanding of genetic/epigenetic variation and signaling network perturbation in disease. stephen.yi@austin.utexas.edu
Janet Zoldan
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, stem cell bioengineering, human-induced pluripotent stem cells. zjanet@austin.utexas.edu
Non-BME Faculty at UT Austin
Deji Akinwande
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Atomic nanomaterials that can afford uniquely high-performance biosensors, bioelectronics, and wearable biomedical technology. Examples of the atomic nanomaterials include graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides. deji@ece.utexas.edu
Zhengrong Cui
Pharmacy
Research Interests: Improving the efficacy of anticancer drugs and overcoming tumor chemoresistance, vaccine delivery and adjuvant discovery, and targeting of drugs to chronic inflammation sites. zhengrong.cui@austin.utexas.edu
Kevin Dalby
Pharmacy
Research Interests: Signal transduction, protein-protein interactions, drug design, cancer, protein kinase biochemistry, and cell biology. dalby@mail.utexas.edu
Andrew Ellington
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Evolutionary engineering of molecules, metabolism and organisms. andy.ellington@mail.utexas.edu
Lief Fenno
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Research Interests: Engineering and optimization of viral payload delivery systems, design of novel molecular control approaches for neuroscience, neuropeptide discovery and characterization. lief.fenno@austin.utexas.edu
Ilya Finkelstein
Molecular Biosciences
Research Interests: Tools that merge micro-/nano-engineering, single molecule biophysics, and genomics to understand the mechanisms of genome maintenance and CRISPR gene editing.
ifinkelstein@cm.utexas.edu
Debadyuti Ghosh
Pharmacy
Research Interests: Biologically inspired, rational design of biomolecules (i.e., antibodies and peptides) and nanoscale materials for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. dghosh@austin.utexas.edu
Vernita Gordon
Physics
Research Interests: How physical factors, such as spatial structure and mechanics, impact pathogenicity and disease course of bacterial biofilm infections. gordon@chaos.utexas.edu
Yi Lu
Chemistry
Research Interests: DNAzymes and DNA aptamers as highly sensitive and selective sensors for point-of-care diagnostics, biomedical imaging and gene editing. Functional DNA nanomaterials as theranostic agents for early detection of diseases such as cancers and targeted drug delivery. Engineering novel biocatalysts for synthetic biology and their biomedical applications. yi.lu@utexas.edu
Alexander Marras
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomolecular self-assembly; structural DNA nanotechnology; design rules for polymeric nanoparticles; nucleic acid delivery; multi-scale smart materials; soft matter characterization; small angle scattering. amarras@utexas.edu
Li Shi
Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: We investigate transport and nano sciences to advance energy, information, biomedical, and security technologies. lishi@mail.utexas.edu
Jason Shear
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research interests: Biomaterials, Cellular Engineering, Chemical Microanalysis, Microscopy. jshear@mail.utexas.edu
Hugh Smyth
Pharmacy
Research interests: Controlled release pulmonary drug delivery, dry powder device design, nano-bio interactions. hsmyth@mail.utexas.edu
Max Snodderly
Human Ecology
Research interests: Vision, the effects of aging on vision, and the potential for nutrition to slow or prevent age-related eye disease.max.snodderly@mail.utexas.edu
Non-BME, Non-UT Austin Faculty
Gregory Reece
Plastic Surgery, MD Anderson
Research Interests: Angiogenesis in wound healing, tissue engineering and vascular biology. greece@mdanderson.org
Track 3, Computational Biomedical Engineering
BME Faculty
Kenneth R. Diller
Research Interests: Low-temperature biology, thermal modeling, tissue banking, burn injury, computer vision. kdiller@mail.utexas.edu
Mia K. Markey
Research Interests: Machine learning and statistical techniques for detection, classification and prediction in biology and medicine, biomedical image analysis. mia.markey@mail.utexas.edu
Pengyu Ren
Research Interests: Molecular modeling of biological systems, computational biology. pren@mail.utexas.edu
Michael Sacks
Research Interests: Cardiovascular biomechanics; computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system; advanced constitutive models; biomechanical interactions of cell, tissue, and organ in native and engineered heart valves and myocardium. msacks@ices.utexas.edu
Thomas Yankeelov
Research interests: cancer imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, tumor modeling, predictive oncology, patient-specific modeling, computational oncology. thomas.yankeelov@utexas.edu
Song (Stephen) Yi
Research Interests: Combining computational and experimental expertise to build a quantitative understanding of genetic/epigenetic variation and signaling network perturbation in disease. stephen.yi@austin.utexas.edu
Non-BME Faculty at UT Austin
Lawrence D. Abraham
Kinesiology and Health
Research Interests: Neural control of movement, human biomechanics. l.abraham@mail.utexas.edu
Chandrajit L. Bajaj
Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer models of physical domains with associated physics. bajaj@cs.utexas.edu
Alan Bovik
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical image processing, computer vision. bovik@mail.utexas.edu
Joydeep Ghosh
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Large-scale data mining and intelligent data analysis for high-throughput systems; bioinformatics; health care system modeling. ghosh@ece.utexas.edu
Edward Marcotte
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Bioinformatics; functional genomics, proteomics; mass-spectrometric detection of protein expression; protein microarrays; protein-network-guided drug discovery; high-throughput protein interaction screening; high-throughput discovery of gene function. marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu
Sriram Vishwanath
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Data mining and machine learning for health care, health care predictive modeling, casual inference, graphical modeling. sriram@utexas.edu
Track 4, Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
BME Faculty
Aaron Baker
Research Interests: Cardiovascular biology, vascular mechanotransduction, and vascular drug delivery. abbaker@austin.utexas.edu
Kenneth R. Diller
Research Interests: Low-temperature biology, thermal modeling, tissue banking, burn injury, computer vision. kdiller@mail.utexas.edu
Sapun Parekh
Research Interests: Chemical and nonlinear microscopy; molecular basis of pathology; microscopy instrumentation; molecular physics of biomaterials; mechano-chemical coupling in cancer. sparekh@utexas.edu
Manuel Rausch
Research Interests: Deep vein thrombosis, mechanics of thin biological membranes (skin, heart valves, fetal membranes), damage and failure in soft tissues. manuel.rausch@utexas.edu
Michael Sacks
Research Interests: Cardiovascular biomechanics; computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system; advanced constitutive models; biomechanical interactions of cell, tissue, and organ in native and engineered heart valves and myocardium. msacks@ices.utexas.edu
Jeanne Stachowiak
Research Interests: Biological membranes, biophysics, construction of minimal cell-like systems, biomaterials, drug delivery. jcstach@austin.utexas.edu
Non-BME Faculty at UT Austin
Lawrence D. Abraham
Kinesiology and Health
Research Interests: Neural control of movement, human biomechanics. l.abraham@mail.utexas.edu
Nicholas Fey
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Neuromuscular biomechanics, rehabilitation robotics, prostheses and orthoses, ambulation. nfey@utexas.edu
Alexander Marras
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomolecular self-assembly; structural DNA nanotechnology; design rules for polymeric nanoparticles; nucleic acid delivery; multi-scale smart materials; soft matter characterization; small angle scattering. amarras@utexas.edu
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Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas |
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Dell Children's Hospital |
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University of Houston, Dept. of Engineering Technology |
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health |
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MD Anderson Cancer Center |
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Cardio Texas |
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