Thematic Research Areas: Biomaterials and Bioengineering

Leslie R. Bernstein, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Ph.D., University of Illinois. Behavioral neuroscience: psychoacoustics.

David I. Dorsky, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases; M.D., Ph.D., Harvard, 1976. Anti-HIV and anti-herpesvirus drug mechanisms, herpesviral DNA polymerases, gene transfer strategies applied to bioengineering and studies of antigen presentation.

A. Jon Goldberg, Professor of Prosthodontics, Director of the Center for Biomaterials, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Biomaterials, with studies involving structure-property relationships, development of novel systems, clinical evaluations and surface analysis.

Gloria Gronowicz, Professor in the Department of Surgery with a secondary appointment in Orthopaedics, Ph.D., Columbia University. Projects: 1) Response of bone cells to implant biomaterials, 2) the effect of the human biofield, through Therapeutic Touch, on normal cells and breast cancer cells, and 3) otosclerosis. 

Duck O. Kim, Professor of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology, D.Sc., Washington University, St. Louis. Neurobiology and biophysics of the auditory system; computational neuroscience of single neurons and neural systems; experimental otolaryngology (otoacoustic emissions); biomedical engineering.

Liisa T. Kuhn, Assistant Professor of Oral Rehabilitation, Biomaterials and Skeletal Development, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development. Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara. Biomaterials for drug delivery and bone regeneration and repair.

Shigeyuki Kuwada, Professor of Neuroscience, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Neurophysiology and anatomy of mammalian auditory system, principles of binaural signal processing.

Leslie M. Loew, Professor of Cell Biology; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Ph.D., Cornell, 1974. Morphological determinants of cell physiology; image-based computational models of cellular biology; spatial variations of cell membrane electrophysiology; new optical methods for probing living cells.

William A. Mohler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology. Developmental cell fusion; C. elegans genetics; multidimensional imaging of developmental and cell biological processes.

Syam P. Nukavarapu, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering. Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Scaffold based bone tissue engineering.

Douglas L. Oliver, Professor of Neuroscience, Ph.D., Duke University. Synaptic organization; parallel information processing in the central nervous system; Ionic currents and channel expression and their role in information processing; neurocytology, morphology, and cellular physiology of CNS sensory systems; biology of hearing and deafness.

Carol C. Pilbeam, Professor of Medicine; Ph.D., Yale University, 1982. M.D., Yale School of Medicine. Mechanisms of regulation of bone formation and resorption.

David M. Waitzman, Associate Professor of Neurology, M.D., Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine and CUNY. Neurophysiology; oculomotor system; modeling of CNS.

Charles Wolgemuth, Associate Professor of Cell Biology; Ph.D., University of Arizona. My research focuses on determining the physical underpinnings of biological processes. My primary interests lie in determining how forces are produced inside cells in order to handle processes such as creating and maintaining cell shape, and driving cell motility and cell growth. Some areas of research include wound healing, cancer metastatsis, and pathogen-host interactions during Lyme disease.

Ji Yu, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Optical imaging technology; regulation mechanisms in dendritic RNA translation; cytoskeletal dynamics.