Faculty

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Ashutosh Agarwal

Ashutosh Agarwal

Assoc. 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 is a Latino in the sciences from Barranquilla, Colombia, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering since January 2025. Prior to this position, he was a Provost Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow and an NIH Pathway to Independence Awardee (K99/R00) at the University of Texas at Austin. David was...
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Jeffrey Duerk

Jeffrey Duerk

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

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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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Dr. 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. Dr. Dumont received her PhD in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, investigating the...
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Patrick Ganzer

Patrick Ganzer

Asst. Professor

(305) 243-7112
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Patrick D. Ganzer, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami (jointly appointed at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Biomedical Engineering). He received his undergraduate degree in 2008 from King’s College (Pennsylvania; Summa Cum Laude). In 2013, he received his Ph.D. from Drexel...
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C.-Y. Charles Huang

C.-Y. Charles Huang

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-1320
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Dr. Huang is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami (UM) College of Engineering, USA. His current research focuses on the mechanobiology of orthopedic soft tissues and stem cells, especially impact injury of articular cartilage, and energy metabolism of intervertebral disc. Dr. Huang has received several...
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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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Dr. Fabrice Manns serves as chair and professor of the University of Miami College of Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Manns holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Ophthalmology where his research laboratory is located. He is the Co-Director of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s Ophthalmic Biophysics Center....
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Ozcan Ozdamar

Ozcan Ozdamar

Research Professor

(305) 284-2136
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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, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Miami, Research Health Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and founder and Chief Scientific Officer of RestorEar Devices, LLC. The NeuroTherapeutics group led by Dr. Rajguru carries out research with translational focus on characterization, diagnosis and treatment of hearing...
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Alice Tomei

Alice Tomei

Associate Professor

(305) 243-3469
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Dr. Tomei is an Associate Professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Immunology and Surgery and the director of the Islet Immunoengineering Laboratory at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Millers School of Medicine. She is applying her unique background in bioengineering and immunology to develop novel...
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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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Dr. 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...
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Noel Marysa Ziebarth

Noel Marysa Ziebarth

Assoc. Professor & Associate Dean, Graduate

(305) 284-4520
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Dr. Ziebarth’s research program is dedicated to applying advanced imaging technologies to investigate the structural and mechanical properties of ophthalmic tissues. Specifically, her laboratory uses confocal microscopy (FRAP), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to analyze the lens, cornea, retina,...
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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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Dr. Gianluca D’Ippolito has almost 30 years of experience on stem cell research. His work is focused on the isolation, characterization, and application of adult stem cells from bone marrow stroma. He is the co-inventor of the Marrow-Isolated Adult Multilineage Inducible (MIAMI) cells, a developmentally immature and highly homogeneous...
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Julian Lippmann

Julian Lippmann

Lecturer

(305) 284-3351
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