Primary Faculty
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![Edward Brown](brown_edward/assets/images/brown350x500.jpg)
Brown III, Edward
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
- Office Location
- 5-7224A Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5918
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiphoton laser scanning microscopy, novel in vivo imaging, and measurement techniques, tumor biology
![Mark Buckley](buckley_mark/assets/images/buckley_350x500.jpg)
Buckley, Mark
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 317 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4195
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Soft tissue biomechanics, surgical biomechanics, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, novel imaging techniques to characterize soft tissue properties
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![Laurel H. Carney](carney_laurel/assets/images/carney-laurel_350x500.jpg)
Carney, Laurel H.
Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 5-6438 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3948
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids
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Castañeda, Benjamín
Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Development of Point-of-Care Technologies for resource limitted settings. Development of ultrasound-based imaging diagnostic techniques.
![Regine Choe](choe_regine/assets/images/choe-regine350x500.jpg)
Choe, Regine
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- MC 5-7233A Med Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4374
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Diffuse optical methods based on near infared light illumination for disease detection and therapy monitoring in brain, bone, and breast
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![Diane Dalecki](dalecki_diane/assets/images/diane_dalecki_350x500.jpg)
Dalecki, Diane
Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
- Office Location
- 308 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7378
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical ultrasound imaging and therapy, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound
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![Greg T. Gdowski](gdowski_greg/assets/images/ggdowski_350x500.jpg)
Gdowski, Greg T.
Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Office Location
- 310 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2580
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Technology commercialization, start-up ventures, neural circuitry and information processing, and computational neuroscience
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Giacomelli, Michael
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 5-8145 Medical Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiphoton microscopy, surgical imaging, high throughput imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, high-speed analog and optoelectronics, design of microscopic and medical imaging systems
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![Profile photo](herrera-perez_marisol/assets/images/herrera_perez350x500.jpg)
Herrera-Perez, Marisol
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 215 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2312
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Tissue self-organization, biophysics of cell shape and motility, morphogenesis, mechanics of development, control of cell communication.
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Hill, Cherice Natasha
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 309 Goergen
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4775
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multi-scale biomechanics of the human temporomandibular and lower extremity joints with a particular focus on diverse populations
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Lalor, Edmund
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 2.B203A Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3077
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human sensory neurophysiology, brain-computer interfacing, computational neuroscience, neural encoding of natural sounds, sensory processing in psychiatric and developmental disorders
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Lee, Whasil
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Office Location
- 4-8553 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4631
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell mechanics and mechanotransduction, mechanosensitive ion channels, therapeutic strategies for musculoskeletal disease and joint pain
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Lerner, Amy L.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Academic Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Office Location
- 307 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7847
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Orthopaedic bio-mechanics, cornea mechanics, cartilage mechanics, medical image- based finite element modeling, knee biomechanics
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Luebke, Anne E.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 6-8547 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1635
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels
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![Stephen McAleavey](mcaleavey_stephen/assets/images/mcaleavey_5x7.jpg)
McAleavey, Stephen
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 210A Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7768
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Instrumentation, signal processing, ultrasound imaging, motion tracking, elasticity imaging methods, ultrasound echo models
![Profile Photo](mcgrath_james/assets/images/mcgrath_2023_350x500.jpg)
McGrath, James
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 306 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5489
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Microphysiological systems, nanomembranes for diagnostics, and microfluidics
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![Scott Seidman](seidman_scott/assets/images/seidman350x500.jpg)
Seidman, Scott
Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience
Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 216 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3932
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration
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Vats, Kanika
Associate Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
Instructor, Rochester Scholars Pre-College Program
- Office Location
- 316 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4628
Interests: Biomedical nanotechnology, biomimetic membranes, cell-material interactions
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![Richard E. Waugh](waugh_richard/assets/images/waugh350x500.jpg)
Waugh, Richard E.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
- Office Location
- 218 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3768
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell Adhesion, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins