Bachelor’s Degree
Biomedical Engineering was rated one of the top 50 careers in 2011. You will combine biology, engineering, and the desire to help others.
Master’s & PhD Degrees
Research-intensive education that integrates engineering science, biomedical science, and clinical practice is the hallmark of our programs.
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Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
The research in our laboratory focuses on the development of polymeric materials that exhibit improved biocompatibility when implanted in living organisms and to use these materials to fabricate implantable sensors that function for extended time periods (i.e., longer than 24 h).
Polymeric materials are used to fabricate a wide variety of biomedical devices such as extracorporeal tubing, vascular grafts, implantable sensors, dialysis membranes, catheters and cannula. Regardless of the type of polymer used to construct such devices, they all initiate a biological response that often leads to device . . .
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Assistant Professor
One of the significant hurdles of regenerative engineering is creating instructive materials capable of directing the development of the complex multi-scale nature of tissues. In our laboratory we look to use specific contextual studies of native and pathological tissue behavior (both in vitro and in vivo) to develop rationale designs for new biomaterials as delivery vehicles to regulate cell and tissue regeneration and repair. More specifically, the overarching theme of the Engineered Biomaterials Lab (EBL) at Michigan Technological University is to understand how physical and chemical cues guide cell behavior.
Rupak Rajachar received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Sciences and . . .
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Assistant Professor
Zhao's lab seeks to address the challenges associated with engineering completely biological cardiovascular tissues for regenerative medicine applications. We are developing innovative cell therapies using stem cell sheets to create 3D scaffold-free tissue constructs with the structural similarity, necessary mechanical characteristics, and sufficient immuno-compatibility to facilitate functional in vivo integration. We are also trying to recreate biomimetic microenvironment for 3D tissue development by precisely manipulating biomaterials, oxygen tension, and hydrodynamic culture conditions. The underlying mechanisms that regulate the tissue development are under ongoing investigation by the experimental replication of in vivo cell-cell and cell-environment interactions.
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Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Sean Kirkpatrick's primary area of research is biomedical optics, specializing in the biophysical applications of light scattering for assessing the mechanical, structural and biochemical nature of biological tissues and fluids, and synthetic biomaterials. Of particular interest to him is the theory and application of the laser speckle phenomenon, as well as other aspects of coherent imaging. Other research interests include optical nondestructive evaluation of materials and structures.
He is the author of over seventy professional publications and book . . .
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