Faculty
Van C. Mow
Department Chair, Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic Bioengineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-8462
Fax: +1 212-854-5117
Email: vcm1@columbia.edu
Soft tissue biomechanics (including articular cartilage, meniscus and intervertebral disc), biomechanics of osteoarthritis, cell-matrix interactions, mechano-signal transduction, and functional tissue engineering.
Andrew F. Laine
Vice-Chair, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
407 CEPSR Building
530 West 120th Street, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-6539
Fax: +1 212-854-2733
Email: laine@columbia.edu
Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis.
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Gerard Ateshian
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
242 S. W. Mudd
500 West 120th Street, Mail Code: 4703
Phone: +1 212-854-8602
Fax: +1 212-854-3304
Email: ateshian@columbia.edu
Cartilage mechanics, biotribology, and tissue engineering, diarthrodial
joint mechanics, soft tissue mechanics, computer-assisted surgery.
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Truman R. Brown
Percy Kay and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics).
Hatch Center NI
Box 48, 710 West 168th Street
Phone: +1 212-305-1864
Fax: +1 212-854-6284
Email: trb11@columbia.edu
Research in MR imaging and spectroscopy; Bayesian signal analysis.
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Kevin D. Costa
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-9163
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: kdc17@columbia.edu
Cardiac cell and tissue biomechanics, constitutive modeling, finite element methods, atomic force microscopy.
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X. Edward Guo
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-6196
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: exg1@columbia.edu
Bone mechanics, bone adaptation to mechanical loads and its cellular/molecular mechanisms, computational modeling of biological tissues, cellular biomechanics, imaging analysis of bone microstructure, micropatterning of cells.
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Andreas H. Hielscher
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-5080
Email: ahh2004@columbia.edu
Biomedical optical imaging of joints, cerebral hemodynamics, vascular
reactivity and optical molecular imaging. Model-based tomographic image
reconstruction algorithms and medical instrument development.
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Elizabeth M. C. Hillman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-2788
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: eh2245@columbia.edu
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.
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Hayden Huang
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code 8904
Phone: +1 212-851-0272
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: hayden.huang@columbia.edu
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.
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Clark T. Hung
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-6542
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: cth6@columbia.edu
Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on musculoskeletal cells related to cellular and tissue engineering.
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Christopher R. Jacobs
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212 851 0271
Email: crj2111@columbia.edu
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow cells of the skeletal system to sense and respond to mechanical stimulation.
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Lance C. Kam
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-8611
Email: lk2141@columbia.edu
Cell interaction with micro- and nano-scale features of topology, chemistry, and extracellular signals. Biophysics of cell signaling involving biomembrane-associated proteins.
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Elisa E. Konofagou
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-342-0863 +1 212-854-9661
Fax: +1 212-342-5773
Email: ek2191@columbia.edu
Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image
processing, soft tissue mechanics.
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Edward F. Leonard
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
812 S. W. Mudd
500 West 120th Street, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-4448
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: leonard@columbia.edu
Blood-material interactions, immunophysics, modeling intracellular signaling.
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Helen H. Lu
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-4071
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: hl2052@columbia.edu
Interface tissue engineering and the formulation of complex tissue systems, stratified scaffold design and multi-scale models to evaluate heterotypic cellular interactions, development of polymer-ceramic composite biomaterials for orthopaedic and dental applications.
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Jeremy J. Mao
Professor of Dental Medicine
PH7 East
630 West 168th Street
Phone: +1 212-305-9393
Email: jmao@columbia.edu
Stem cells and multi-lineage differentiation pathways. Tissue engineering via cell delivery and growth factor approaches. Mechanobiology of skeletal structures: cells and cellular mechanics. Cell labeling and cell tracking in tissue regeneration by nanoparticles.
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Barclay Morrison
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-6277
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: bm2119@columbia.edu
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.
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Paul Sajda
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Departmental Faculty Mediator
404 CEPSR Building
530 West 120th Street, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-5279
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: ps629@columbia.edu
Neurocomputational modeling and neuroengineering, pattern recognition, adaptive processing for biomedical image and signal analysis.
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Michael P. Sheetz
Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences
713 Fairchild Center, Mail Code: 2408
Phone: +1 212-854-4857
Fax: +1 212-865-8246
Email: ms2001@columbia.edu
Cell motility, motor molecules, integrin-cytoskeleton interactions.
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Samuel K. Sia
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-7549
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: ss2735@columbia.edu
Tissue formation and cell-cell signaling in controlled 2D
and 3D microenvironments, molecular design for controlling
cell-material interactions, MEMS devices for improving the
health of people in developing countries.
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
New York
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Phone: +1 212-305-2304
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: gv2131@columbia.edu
Tissue engineering, human stem cells (adult and embryonic), advanced bioreactors, biophysical regulation of cell function and tissue development.
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Adjunct Faculty
Nicolas W. Chbat
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Email: chbat@philips.com
Shiro Matsuoka
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-4460
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: sm2228@columbia.edu
Thermodynamics of nonequilibrium states; dynamics of polymer molecules, dielectric and viscoelastic relaxation phenomena; physics of interfacial free energy; modeling and analysis of diffusion process for charged molecules.
Elizabeth S. Olson
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
11-452 P&S
630 West 168th Street
Phone: +1 212-305-3993 +1 212-305-4045
Email: eao2004@columbia.edu
Mechanics of hearing and the basis for frequency tuning in the inner ear.
Arthur A. Pilla
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-4460
Email: apilla@optonline.net
Biophysical / Biological / Clinical effects of electromagnetic fields. Cell/tissue modelling with application to signal transduction and clinical studies. Bone/wound repair, acute and chronic pain relief, nerve regeneration and cancer applications.
Alvin Wald
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904
Phone: +1 212-854-6544
Fax: +1 212-854-8725
Email: aw7@columbia.edu
Editor of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine.
Affiliated Faculty
Philip O. Alderson
James Picker Professor of Radiology
Email: poa1@columbia.edu
Peter K. Allen
Professor of Computer Science
Email: allen@cs.columbia.edu
Dimitris Anastassiou
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Email: anastas@ee.columbia.edu
Ernest W. April
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Email: ewa1@columbia.edu
Aniruddha Das
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Email: ad2069@columbia.edu
Robert L. Delapaz
Professor of Radiology
Email: rld17@columbia.edu
Shunichi Homma
Associate Professor of Medicine
Email: sh23@columbia.edu
Kung-Ming Jan
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Email: kj3@columbia.edu
Martin G. Low
Professor of Physiology
Email: mgl2@columbia.edu
Zheng Feng Lu
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
Email: zfl1@columbia.edu
John Pile-Spellman
Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery
Email: jp59@columbia.edu
Henry Spotnitz
George G. Humphreys II Professor of Surgery
Email: hms2@columbia.edu