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....
Courtney Dumont received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer in 2014 under the mentorship of Deanna Thompson while studying the effects of endothelial hemodynamics on neural stem cell fate, and her BS at Rensselaer in 2009. Dr. Dumont performed her postdoctoral research under the mentorship of Lonnie Shea at the Univeristy of...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Yingchun Zhang, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Desai Sethi Urology Institute, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and the director of the Predictive Modeling and Functional Imaging Research Laboratory (PreMI) at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at...
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,...
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...