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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

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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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

Castañeda, Benjamín
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 310 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5774
Interests: Development of Point-of-Care Technologies for resource limitted settings. Development of ultrasound-based imaging diagnostic techniques.

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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Dalecki, Diane
Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Distinguished 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: Diagnostic ultrasound imaging, therapeutic ultrasound, applications of ultrasound for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, physical acoustics, biological effects of ultrasound
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Gdowski, Greg T.
Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Office Location
- 218 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2580
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Technology commercialization, start-up ventures, neural circuitry and information processing, and computational neuroscience

Giacomelli, Michael
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate 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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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.

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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Irwin, Rebecca
Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Mechanobiology, structure-function relationships, soft tissue mechanics, intravital multiphoton microscopy, regenerative therapies
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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

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

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

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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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

McGrath, James
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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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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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Waugh, Richard E.
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
- 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