People - Department of Biomedical Engineering

Faculty

Office Hours: Tuesday/Wednesday 1:00-2:30 pm - BI 2613

Research Interests: Neural Prostheses/Neural Interfaces, Brain-Computer Interface, Floating Micro-Stimulators.

George Catalano, Distinguished Service Professor

Office Hours: Monday/Friday 10:00 am-12:00 pm, 2:00-4:00 pm; Wednesday 10:00 am-12:00 pm - BI 2614

Research Interests: A socially just engineering profession and education paradigm, environmental ethics, engineering ethics, fluid dynamics of the natural world, turbulence, aerodynamics, creativity, liberative pedagogy, predator-prey modeling, cellular automaton.

Guy German, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 12:00-1:00 pm - BI 2609

Research Interests: Multi-scale mechanics of tissues, microstructures for encapsulation and drug delivery.

Tracy Hookway, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Tuesday/Wednesday 1:00-2:00 pm - BI 2627

Research Interests: 3D tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, stem cell biology and tissue morphogenesis, cardiovascular physiology, multicellular interactions

Sha Jin Sha Jin, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00 pm-5:00 pm - BI 2612

Research Interests: Stem cell for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, mechanobiology, molecular genetics and cell biology, nanosensor development, vaccine development.

Ahyeon Koh, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00-4:30 pm - BI 2624

Research Interests: Electrochemical biosensors, flexible and stretchable sensors, biocompatible sensors and materials, analytical devices for biomedical applications

Frank Lu, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 am-12:00 pm; Friday 11:00 am-12:30 pm - BI 2626

Research Interests: Nonlinear Raman microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, label-free digital histopathology, optical bioimaging for image-guided neurosurgery and neuro-oncology.

Gretchen Mahler, Associate Professor

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 12:00-1:00 pm - BI 2608

Research Interests: In vitro and in silico toxicology and pharmacology, microfluidic models of organs and tissues, endothelial and epithelial cell pathobiology.

Yuan Wan, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Friday 12:00-4:00 pm - BI 2625

Research Interests: Diagnostic technologies, micro/nanofluidics, targeted therapeutics, clinical pathophysiology

Zhibo Wang, Lecturer and Lab Coordinator

Office Hours: Monday/Thursday 1:00-2:30 pm - BI 2617

Research interest: TBD

Kaiming Ye, Professor and Chair

Office Hours: By appointment

Research Interests: Advanced Biomanufacturing, 3D Tissue and Organ Printing, Personalized Medicine, Stem Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Nanomedicine, Vaccine Development, Biosensors and Bioimaging.

Courtesy Faculty

Anthony Di Pasqua, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, chemo- and radio-therapeutics, platinum-based anticancer therapeutics

Yetrib Hathout

Yetrib Hathout, Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Bio-analytical mass spectrometry and proteomics to study muscle diseases, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, novel therapeutic targets

Eric Hoffman, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Molecular genetics, neuromuscular diseases, drug development

Ryan Pelis, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Drug transport, drug metabolism, physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling, pharmacokinetics

Nathan Tumey, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry, targeted drug delivery, antibody-drug conjugates, auto-immune disease / inflammation

Department Advisory Board Committee

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The Biomedical Engineering Advisory Board is composed of leaders from industry, business and the community. The mission of the Advisory Board is defined by three major objectives: to provide advice to the department on academic, research and service programs and strategic direction; to serve as advocates for the department; to foster industry/University partnerships that result in the application of applied research and technical knowledge.

Advisory Board Members

Rajesh Davé, MD, MBA '93
SUNY Upstate Medical Center,
Binghamton Clinical Campus,
UHS Imaging Wilson Medical Center
Johnson City, NY

Paul H. Frisch, PhD, FHIMSS
Assistant Attending, Department of Medical Physics
Chief, Biomedical Physics and Engineering
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Bin He, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Minnesota

Amine Hila, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Upstate Medical School, SUNY
DIO, Director of Medical Education, UHS Hospitals
Medical Director of Research, UHS Hospitals
Staff Gastroenterologist, UHS Hospitals
Binghamton Gastroenterology Associates
Binghamton, NY

Kam Leong, PhD
Member of National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

SuPing Lyu, PhD
Medtronic Corporate Science and Technology
Senior Principal Scientist and Technical Fellow
Medtronic Co.

Miriam Rafailovich, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Material Science Department
SUNY Stony Brook

Jerome S. Schultz, PhD
Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Houston University

Heike Sichtig, PhD
Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
Biomedical Engineer / Premarket Reviewer
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Erin Barnes
Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
Student, Temple University School of Medicine

Lucy Volland
Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
Director of Marketing
OpenTrons Labworks Inc.

Joseph Perez-Rodgers, PhD
Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
Technical Product Manager
GNS Healthcare

Edward Guo, PhD
Chair and Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University

Tejasvi Sadasivuni, MS
Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
Engineer
Samsung Austin Semiconductor

Student Advisory Board Committee

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The Biomedical Engineering Student Advisory Board is composed of top students, both graduate and undergraduate. The mission of the Student Advisory Board includes the following objectives:

to provide feedback to the department on academic, research and service programs to serve as advocates for the student population

Student Advisory Board Members

Undergraduate
- Adam Levine (Senior)
- Emma Northrup (Junior)
- Margaret Blystone (Junior)
- Shuofei Sun (Junior)
Graduate
- Sebastian Freeman (Chair)
- Huanjing Bi (PhD student)
- Niranjana Dhandapani (PhD student)
- Soujanya Karanth (PhD student)

Student groups

There are a number of honor societies and student organizations that represent various engineering and computer science disciplines in which Watson School students can participate.