Research in Bioengineering

Our faculty and graduate students enjoy an association with nearby UT Southwestern Medical Center, one of the top medical schools in the nation.

The Bioengineering Department is on the cutting edge of technology and research, with multiple current grants funded by the NIH, NSF, and others for work related to traumatic brain injuries, cancer, imaging, and biomedical technology.

Bioinstrumentation

Bioinstrumentation is the application of electronics and measurement techniques to help develop devices for use in diagnosis and treatment of disease. A focus in this area is to train engineers who can design instruments to further enhance the quality of health care. 

Khosrow Behbehani, Ph.D. 
Respiratory and anesthesia device design and analysis, microprocessor-based control design for biomedical systems, computer modeling of biomedical systems. 

Hanli Liu, Ph.D. 
Medical instrumentation and imaging, minimally invasive and non-invasive spectroscopy and imaging of tissue, optical diffuse imaging for cancer prognosis and brain activity monitoring. 

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 

This area focuses on the development of any material, natural or man-made, that comprises whole or part of a living structure or biomedical device which performs, augments, or replaces a natural function. Tissue engineering attempts to solve problems at the microscopic level at precise target locations and design miniature devices to deliver compounds that can stimulate or inhibit cellular processes. This study track is currently available to students in both master's and doctoral programs.

Michael Cho, Ph.D. 
Biomechanics, biophysics, tissue engineering, cancer research 

Yi Hong, Ph.D. 
Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering; Medical Devices; Drug Delivery 

Justyn Jaworski, Ph.D. 
Applied Soft Matter Systems; Biomedical; Molecular Recognition 

Young-tae Kim, Ph.D. 
Neural Engineering 

Kytai Nguyen, Ph.D. 
Drug Delivery; Tissue Engineering 

Liping Tang, Ph.D.
Translational Regenerative Medicine

Biomechanics

In this area, experimental and computational methods are used to gain a better understanding of the function of various biological systems at normal and disease states. Studies at both tissue and cellular levels are applied to cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal systems, as well as to brain tumors with the goal to foster the conception, design, and development of devices and methodologies for disease diagnosis and treatment.

Michael Cho, Ph.D. 
AIMBE Fellow; Biomechanics; Biophysics; Tissue Engineering; Cancer Research 

Cheng-Jen Chuong, Ph.D. 
Computational Biomechanics; Modeling Cancer Cell Migration; Medical Devices; Vascular Stents 

Juhyun Lee, Ph.D. 
Biomedical Optical Imaging; Hemodynamics; Cardiac Mechanics 

Jun Liao, Ph.D. 
Tissue Biomechanics; Computational Simulation; Tissue Engineering and Regeneration; Cardiac Biomechanics and Regeneration; Heart Valve Biomechanics; Bioengineering 

Medical Imaging

This area of study involves the application of imaging principles, i.e., optical, ultrasound, radiological, and magnetic resonance imaging, for the visualization of the anatomy and physiological function of a variety of biological systems, such as the brain and the heart, for clinical purposes such as diagnosing disease or monitoring treatment outcomes for cancer and other diseases and for medical science research.

George Alexandrakis, Ph.D. 
Functional Brain Imaging with Near-infrared Light Quantitative; High Resolution Microscopy Methods 

Digant Davé, Ph.D. 
Biomedical optics; Optical Coherence Tomography; Label-free Molecular Sensing 

Juhyun Lee, Ph.D. 
Biomedical Optical Imaging; Hemodynamics; Cardiac Mechanics 

Hanli Liu, Ph.D. 
Medical Instrumentation and Imaging; Minimally Invasive and Noninvasive Spectroscopy and Imaging of Tissue; Optical Diffuse Imaging for Cancer Prognosis and Brain Activities 

Baohong Yuan, Ph.D. 
Biomedical Acoustic and Optical Imaging; Ultrasound-mediated Fluorescence Optical Techniques for Tumor; Structural, Functional, Molecular and Genomic Imaging 

Nanomedicine/nanotechnology

This area of study involves nanoscience and nanotechnology applied to the life sciences and medicine.

Yi Hong, Ph.D. 
Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering; Medical Devices; Drug Delivery

Kytai Nguyen, Ph.D.
Drug Delivery; Tissue Engineering

Research Labs and Centers

Administration/Staff

Dr. Michael Cho
Professor and Chair
817-272-2965
michael.cho@uta.edu

Dr. Cheng-Jen Chuong
Professor and Associate Chair
817-272-2348
chuong@uta.edu

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