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Faculty Research Topics

Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering

Fabian Benencia
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Areas of research:   Tumor immunology, angiogenesis, gene therapy
Stephen Bergmeier
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of research:   Small organic molecule therapeutics
Monica Burdick
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Areas of research:   Colon cancer, breast cancer, metastatis, cell adhesion
Douglas Goetz
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Areas of research:   Cell adhesion, drug delivery
Jennifer Hines
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of research:   RNA, chemical biology, drug discovery, molecular modeling
Savas Kaya
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Areas of research:   Ion channels and pumps, nanobioelectric devices and systems, microfluids and molecular electronics
Leonard Kohn
Emeritus Distinguished Senior Research Scientist, Edison Biotechnology Institute, and Biomedical Sciences
Areas of research:   Autoimmune disease, inflammation, small molecule therapeutics
John Kopchick
Goll Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor, Biomedical Sciences, and Edison Biotechnology Institute
Areas of research:   Growth, diabetes, aging
Ramiro Malgor
Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Areas of research:   Inflammation, vascular pathology
Kelly McCall
Assistant Professor, Specialty Medicine
Areas of research:   Diabetes, inflammation, autoimmune disease, tumor biology, innate immunity, small molecule therapeutics
David Tees
Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Areas of research:   Biophysics of cell adhesion

Biomechanical Engineering

JungHun Choi
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Areas of research:  
John Cotton
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Areas of research:   Computational biomechanics, bone mechanics, mechanotransduction
John Howell
Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Areas of research:   Virtual Haptic Back, physiological effects of manipulative treatment of somatic dysfunction
Robert Williams
Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Mechanical Engineering
Areas of research:  

Biomedical Information Processing

Brooke Hallowell
Professor, Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences
Areas of research:   Cognitive and linguistic aspects of acquired neurological disorders and diabetes, technology to aid persons with disabilities
Jundong Liu
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Areas of research:   Biomedical image analysis
Cynthia Marling
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Areas of research:   Artificial intelligence in medicine
Frank Schwartz
J.O. Watson Endowed Research Chair, Professor, Endocrinology, and Director, Appalachian Rural Health Institute Diabetes Center
Areas of research:   Diabetes control, artificial intelligence with glucose monitoring, mechanisms of diabetes and its complications
Lonnie Welch
Stuckey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Areas of research:  
Sarah Wyatt
Associate Professor, Environmental and Plant Biology
Areas of research:   Plant molecular biology/development with a focus on signal transduction
Li Xu
Associate Professor, Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences
Areas of research:   Electrical hearing, cochlear implants, speech perception, tone perception

Biomedical Engineering program
Russ College of Engineering and Technology
171 Stocker Center
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701-2979
Tel: 740.597.2797
Fax: 740.593.0873
Email: biomed@ohio.edu

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