Faculty

  • X. Edward Guo

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-6196
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: exg1@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Image based microstructural and finite element analyses of skeletons; in vitro mechanobiology of osteocytes, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts; and 3D cell mechanics and mechanotransduction.
    Lab Web Site

  • Henry Hess

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-7749
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: hh2374@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Engineering at the molecular scale, in particular the design of active nanosystems incorporating biomolecular motors, the study of active self-assembly, and the investigation of protein-resistant polymer coatings.
    Lab Web Site

  • Andreas H. Hielscher

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-5080
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: ahh2004@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Optical medical instrumentation and image reconstruction algorithms. Clinical and preclinical imaging of joint diseases, cancer (breast, kidney, stomach, bone, prostate), cerebral hemodynamics (stroke, epilepsy), and vascular reactivity.
    Lab Web Site

  • Elizabeth M.C. Hillman

    351 Engineering Terrace (Office: 406 CEPSR)
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-2788
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: eh2245@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    2D and 3D optical imaging, development and application of new optical imaging technologies, microscopy and spectroscopy, in vivo function and physiology, brain, cardiac and dermal and molecular imaging.
    Lab Web Site

  • Hayden Huang

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-851-0272
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: hayden.huang@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    General responses of cells to physical stimuli, mechanotransduction, cell mechanical properties and adhesion, with focus on cardiovasculature. Development of instrumentation and new techniques for probing cells.
    Lab Web Site

  • Clark T. Hung

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-6542
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: cth6@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on musculoskeletal cells related to cellular and tissue engineering.
    Lab Web Site

  • Christopher R. Jacobs

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212 851 0271
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: crj2111@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow cells of the skeletal system to sense and respond to mechanical stimulation.
    Lab Web Site

  • Lance C. Kam

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-8611
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: lk2141@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Micro- and nano-scale fabrication of biological systems. Cell-cell and cell-matrix signaling. Engineering of immune and nervous systems. Nanomedicine.
    Lab Web Site

  • Elisa E. Konofagou

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-342-0863 +1 212-854-9661
    Fax: +1 212-342-1648
    Email: ek2191@columbia.edu
     

    Research Areas:

    Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image processing, soft tissue mechanics.
    Lab Web Site

  • Aaron Matthew Kyle

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212 851 5678
    Email: ak3110@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:
    Engineering Education and Laboratory Development, Biomedical Signal Processing and Acoustics, Electromagnetic Field-Induced Tissue Growth and Repair.

  • Andrew Laine
    Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Ave., Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027
    Phone: +1 212-854-6539  Fax: +1 212-854-2733
    laine@columbia.edu   Lab Web Site
  • Helen H. Lu

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York, NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-4071
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: hl2052@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Interface tissue engineering and the formation of integrated complex tissue systems, stratified scaffold design for multi-tissue regeneration and multi-scale models to evaluate heterotypic cellular interactions, composite biomaterials for orthopaedic and dental applications
    Lab Web Site

  • Barclay Morrison

    Vice-Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-6277
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: bm2119@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Mechanical injury of the central nervous system: 1) universal tissue tolerance criteria, 2) role of the cytoskeleton in injury, 3) application of genomic and proteomic technologies to mechanotransduction, 4) repair strategies using stem cells, 5) electrode design for neural engineering.
    Lab Web Site

  • Van C. Mow

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-8462
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: vcm1@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:
    Soft tissue biomechanics (including articular cartilage, meniscus and intervertebral disc), biomechanics of osteoarthritis, cell-matrix interactions, mechano-signal transduction, and functional tissue engineering.

  • Paul Sajda

    404 CEPSR Building
    530 West 120th Street, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-5279
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: ps629@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Neurocomputational modeling and neuroengineering, pattern recognition, adaptive processing for biomedical image and signal analysis.

    Lab Web Site

  • Samuel K. Sia

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Phone: +1 212-854-7549
    Fax: +1 212-854-8725
    Email: ss2735@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Microfluidics, point-of-care diagnostics, 3D tissue engineering, implantable devices.
    Lab Web Site

  • Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

    622 West 168th Street
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, VC12-234
    New York, NY 10032

    Phone: +1 212-305-2304
    Fax: +1 212-305-4692
    Email: gv2131@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Tissue engineering, human stem cells, regenerative medicine.
    Lab Web Site

  • Qi Wang

    351 Engineering Terrace
    1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
    New York , NY 10027

    Email: qw2161@columbia.edu

    Research Areas:

    Neural coding in the somatosensory pathway of the brain, brain-machine interfaces, and biomedical instrumentation for creating engineered tactile sensations.
    Lab Website


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