Faculty

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Ashutosh Agarwal

Ashutosh Agarwal

Professor

(305) 243-8925
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Fotios M Andreopoulos

Fotios M Andreopoulos

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-2069
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David Alfonso Castilla Casadiego

David Alfonso Castilla Casadiego

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-8237
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David Castilla Casadiego is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Biomedical Engineering, where he joined the faculty in January 2025. Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, he previously served as a Provost Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow and National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)...
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Jeffrey Duerk

Jeffrey Duerk

Professor

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Jeffrey L. Duerk, former executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, and former dean of the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, is an accomplished engineer and scientist, as well as a respected academic with deep appreciation for the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Throughout his distinguished...
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Courtney M Dumont

Courtney M Dumont

Assoc. Professor

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Courtney Dumont leads the Neural Stem and Tissue Engineered Microenvironments (NeuSTEM) Group, working at the interface of neural, vascular and immune engineering to overcome barriers that arise after injury to the nervous system. Dumont earned a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, where she...
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Patrick Ganzer

Patrick Ganzer

Asst. Professor

(305) 243-7112
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Patrick D. Ganzer is an assistant professor at the University of Miami, with joint appointments at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Ganzer earned his bachelor's degree from King's College in Pennsylvania in 2008, graduating summa cum laude. He received a Ph.D. in 2013 from Drexel...
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C.-Y. Charles Huang

C.-Y. Charles Huang

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-1320
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C.-Y. Charles Huang is an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Miami College of Engineering. His research focuses on the mechanobiology of orthopedic soft tissues and stem cells, including impact injury of articular cartilage and energy metabolism of the intervertebral disc. Huang has received several research...
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Alicia R. Jackson

Alicia R. Jackson

Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Graduate Program Director

(305) 284-2135
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Transport and Electromechanical Properties, Nutritional Supply to Cells and Tissues, Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Soft Tissues, Finite Element, Analysis, Orthopaedic Tissues: Intervertebral Disc, Meniscus, etc.
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Fabrice Manns

Fabrice Manns

Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering

(305) 284-2335
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Fabrice Manns is chair and professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Miami College of Engineering. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Ophthalmology, where his research laboratory is based, and serves as co-director of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's Ophthalmic Biophysics...
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Abhishek Prasad

Abhishek Prasad

Associate Professor

(305) 243-4886
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Neural Electrodes, Neuroprosthetics, Motor neurophysiology, Brain-Machine Interfaces
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Suhrud M Rajguru

Suhrud M Rajguru

Assistant Vice Provost for Workforce Development and USTAAR

(305) 243-7946
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Suhrud Rajguru is a professor at the University of Miami, a research health scientist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and founder and chief scientific officer of RestorEar Devices LLC.Rajguru leads the NeuroTherapeutics Group, which conducts translational research focused on the characterization, diagnosis and treatment of hearing...
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Alice Tomei

Alice Tomei

Associate Professor

(305) 243-3469
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Alice Tomei is an associate professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Immunology and Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and director of the Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory at the Diabetes Research Institute. Tomei combines expertise in bioengineering and immunology to develop immunoengineering platforms...
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Weizhao Zhao

Weizhao Zhao

Professor

(305) 284-6763
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Yingchun Zhang

Yingchun Zhang

Professor

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Yingchun Zhang is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Miami, with joint appointments in the Desai Sethi Urology Institute and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. His research integrates neural engineering, multimodal neuroimaging and neuromodulation to advance precision rehabilitation for movement disorders, chronic pain...
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Noel Marysa Ziebarth

Noel Marysa Ziebarth

Assoc. Professor & Associate Dean, Graduate

(305) 284-4520
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Noel Ziebarth's research focuses on applying advanced imaging technologies to investigate the structural and mechanical properties of ophthalmic tissues. Her laboratory uses confocal microscopy, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy to study the lens, cornea, retina and optic...
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Kajana Satkunendrarajah

Assoc. Professor

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Teaching and Research Faculty

Jorge E Bohorquez

Jorge E Bohorquez

Professor of Professional Practice
Associate Chair for Academics

(305) 284-1639
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Edward A Dauer

Edward A Dauer

Professor of Clinical

(305) 284-2445
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Gianluca D'Ippolito

Gianluca D'Ippolito, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-2445
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Gianluca D'Ippolito has nearly 30 years of experience in stem cell research. His work focuses on the isolation, characterization and application of adult stem cells derived from bone marrow stroma. He is co-inventor of Marrow-Isolated Adult Multilineage Inducible (MIAMI) cells, a developmentally immature and highly homogeneous subpopulation...
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Julian Lippmann

Julian Lippmann

Lecturer

(305) 284-3351
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