To deliver our collaborative program in the interdisciplinary field of Biomedical Engineering, our core and affiliated faculty include faculty from the College of Engineering and Computing as well as the College of Arts and Sciences and the Medical School.
Dr. Moss is the Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on understanding the role of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease and inhibiting Aβ aggregation as a therapeutic approach to this widespread and devastating illness.
Dr. Shazly is the Graduate Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of South Carolina. His research is in the area of cardiovascular engineering, with specific focus on the mechanical implications of polymeric implants.
Dr. Uline is the Undergraduate Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of South Carolina. His research group is working toward the fundamental understanding of how the complex interactions at interfaces couple together to give the rich phenomena observed in various chemical and biological systems.
Dr. Azhar’s current focus involves using genetically engineered mouse models to investigate the biological function of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) ligands in cardiovascular development and cardiovascular disease, including calcific aortic valve disease, congenital heart disease, and aortic calcification and thoracic aortic aneurysm.
Dr. Bae's research is focused on clinical applications in nanomedicine, bIoelectronics, and biosensors/ bioinstrumentation.
Dr. Bayoumi's current areas of interest can be grouped into three categories: (1) study of Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) on military aircraft, (2) Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Mechatronics, and (3) design and applications of efficient energy resources and systems.
Dr. Blanchette's research interests fall into the areas of: design of cell-instructive materials, delivery of therapeutics and tissue engineering.
Dr. Boltin's focus lies in Software Design, Biomedical Informatics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence.
The research in Dr. Carver’s lab is focused on understanding how fibroblast behavior and gene expression are regulated in the heart. Cell culture and animal models are being used to examine the regulation of fibroblasts in cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Eberth's work, and that of his lab, Translational Biomechanics Lab (TBL), is based on adapting fundamental engineering principles to understand, manipulate, and control the behavior of healthy and diseased cardiovascular tissue.
Dr. Fan’s current research interests include: 1) the interaction between lipoprotein metabolism and innate immunity in atherogenesis, 2) the tumor microenvironment of breast cancer, and 3) development of natural compounds as anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer therapies.
Dr. Gatzke's research interests are in the area of process modeling, control, and optimization. Application areas of interest include particulate processing, bio-processes, and large scale systems.
Dr. Goodwin's research lab investigates mechanisms of cardiovascular embryonic development and disease.
Dr. Gower's research focuses on understanding the immune system in order to develop bio-instructive materials that stimulate specific immune responses.
Dr. Henrich is the undergraduate core lab manager at the BiomedicalEngineering Program, and also serves as an instructor.
Dr. Jabbari's research draws upon chemistry, biology, macromolecular science and exploits biomimetic strategies to engineer cellular constructs for regeneration of skeletal tissues.
Dr. Jabbarzadeh's lab is interested in the interdisciplinary areas of biomaterials, stem cells and nano/micro-electromechanical systems with applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. His research activities focus on understanding the principles by which microenvironmental signals regulate cellular responses.
Dr. Lessner's research interests center on processes which lead to the destabilization and rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. In humans, plaque rupture leads directly to clinical events such as heart attack and stroke.
Dr. Liu’s research group is interested in biosensor development and biomarker discovery using nanomaterials, with a focus on their clinical applications on in vitro diagnostics, point-of-care tests, and liquid biopsy for cancer and infectious diseases.
Dr. Matthews teaches and conducts research in the broad field of thermodynamics. In Biomedical Engineering, his research and entrepreneurship deal with use of carbon dioxide technology for sterilization, disinfection, modification of tissue scaffolds, and deactivations of allergenic proteins and asthma triggers.
Dr. Taheri-Qazvinis' research includes bio-nano hybrid and biomimetic materials, charge-driven self-assembly, structure-dynamics relations in polymer networks, hydrogels, soft glassy materials and living cells, microfabrication and 3D Bioprinting, and tissue engineering and collective cell migration
Dr. Patel's research interests include molecular regulation of vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells.
Dr. Pott’s research team is working toward understanding how the early heart and in particular, the AV canal is formed, laying the foundation for future therapeutic measures for congenital cardiac defects.
Dr. Rose's research interests are in the areas of bioinformatics, normative reasoning and planning, DAI and multiagent systems, and computational chemistry.
Francis G. Spinale, an internationally renowned cardiovascular scientist, has directed a translational research effort in the thematic area of remodeling with a particular focus upon heart failure. The mechanistic, translational, and clinical studies he has been working on will advance our understanding and potential treatment for major causes of heart failure in patients.
Dr. Sutton's research and interests include coherent and incoherent optics applications, experimental mechanics, digital image processing, Computer Vision, applications of integral methods and experimental mechanics, boundary valve problems, plastic fracture mechanics, and finite elements modeling of cracked bodies.
Dr. Tan’s research team mainly focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of congenital vascular malformations. We are interested in the mechanism how vascular and nervous systems interact each other during the diseases’ pathogenesis and progression as well as and development of new treatments for them.
Dr. Tang's research combines synthesis of innovative polymeric materials, including both renewable biobased polymers, nanostructured polymers and metal-containing polymers, which can find applications ranging from novel biodegradable thermoplastics, drug delivery, antimicrobials, nanolithography, etc.
Dr. Valafar's research activities fall into two broad categories: Computational Medicine and Computational Biology.
Dr. Wang's research and interests include micro/nanofluidics, lab-on-a-chip, far field optical nanoscopy, super-resolution imaging, cancer detection, fluorescence spectroscopy, tissue engineering, fluid dynamics, turbulence and mixing.
Professor Wells’ clinical research focuses on analysis of HPV-Infection in Freshly Resected Tissue Specimens.
