Affiliated Faculty
The NYCBE has an internationally recognized faculty of more than 30 researchers in the areas of arterial fluid mechanics and transport, cartilage and ligament mechanics, tissue-biomaterial interaction, bioheat transfer, microvascular exchange, bone adaptation, renal modeling, neural engineering, drug delivery, laser applications in biomedicine, quantitative image analysis for diagnostic pathology, biomedical signal processing and instrumentation, and pattern recognition and vision.
The outstanding quality and diversity of the faculty are reflected in their society affiliations, membership on select panels of the National Institutes of Health, National Research Council, NASA, and editorships and associate editorships of major journals. The faculty have won many of the most prestigious awards and honors in fields related to biomedical engineering, including election to the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine.
Affiliated Faculty
Gwendalyn J. Randolph, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Gene and Cell Medicine
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Phone: 212-659-8262
Fax: 212-803-6740
George Plopper
Assistant Professor
RPI
Cell migration (tumor and stem cells)
Email: ploppg@rpi.edu
Phone: 518-276-8288
Filippo Giacotti
Professor
MSKCC
Cell and molecular biology in cancer
Email: f-giancotti@ski.mskcc.org
Phone: 212-639-6998
Paul S. Frenette, M.D.
Irene and Dr. Arthur Fishberg Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Immunobiology Center and Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Phone: 212-659-9693
Fax: 212-849-2657
Tong Wang, M.D..
Research Associate Professor
Yale School of Medicine
Renal Transport
Email: tong.wang@yale.edu
Stephane Carlier, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Intravascular Imaging & Physiology
Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Vascular Ultrasound and Imaging Physiology
Email: scarlier@crf.org
Herb B. Sun PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Effects of mechanical stimuli on osteoarthritic joints;
Email: herb.sun@mssm.edu
Peter A. Torzilli
Senior Scientist
The Hospital for Special Surgery
Soft tissue biomechanics, cellular/molecular bioengineering.
Email: TorzilliP@hss.edu
David Spray
Professor, Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biophysics of gap junctions.
Email: spray@aecom.yu.edu
Lawrence Sirovich
Professor, Biomathematical Sciences
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mathematical methods applied to analysis and description of biological phenomena.
Email: chico@camelot.mssm.edu
Mitchell Schaffler
Professor, Orthopaedics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Musculoskeletal oncology, skeletal biology and biomechanics.
Email: schafm01@doc.mssm.edu
Lisa Satlin
Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Mount Sinai Medical Center Professor, Pediatric Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Ontogeny and mechanoregulation of epithelial cell function in kidney.
Email: Lisa.Satlin@mssm.edu
David S. Rumschitzki
Professor, Chemical Engineering
CCNY
Transport and reaction aspects of arterial diseases.
Alan Weinstein
Professor, Physiology & Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Fluid transport and renal physiology.
Email: alan@nephron.med.cornell.edu
Timothy M. Wright
Director, Department of Biomechanics & Biomaterials, The Hospital for Special Surgery, Professor, Applied Biomechanics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Design and performance of bone-implant systems, mechanics and mechanobiology of bone tissue.
Email: WrightT@HSS.EDU
Karl J. Jepsen
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Biomechanical and ultrastructural basis of skeletal fragility.
Email: karl.jepsen@mssm.edu
Kung-Ming Jan
Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Lipoprotein transport across arterial endothelium.
Email: kj3@columbia.edu
Vern Houston
Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
NYU
Applications in prosthetics, orthotics, and pedorthics.
Email: vlh3@nyu.edu
Marilyn Gunner
Associate Professor, Physics
CCNY
Protein electrostatic calculations; electron transfer studies.
Jay Edelman
Assistant Professor, Biology
CCNY
Human motor systems and their relation to vision, cognition, and memory.
Email: jedelman@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Stephen B. Doty
Senior Scientist
The Hospital for Special Surgery
Morphology and histology of bone.
Email: dotys@hss.edu
Edward J. Ciaccio
Associate Research Scientist, Pharmacology
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Bioinstrumentation, biomedical signal and image processing.
Email: ciaccio@columbia.edu
Nancy Pleshko Camacho
Associate Scientist
The Hospital for Special Surgery
Characterization of mineral and matrix in calcified tissues.
Email: camachon@hss.edu
Candido Cabo
Assistant Professor, Computer Systems Technology
New York City College of Technology
Cardiac electrophysiology; study of the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias.
Email: ccabo@NYCTC.CUNY.EDU
George Brandon
Associate Medical Professor
CUNY Medical School
Medical anthropology and alternative medicine.
Email: ogun@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Adele Boskey
Professor, Biochemistry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Mineralization processes in bone and cartilage.
Email: boskeya@hss.edu
Savio Woo
Professor and Director
MSSM
Gene and Cell medicine
Email: savio.woo@mssm.edu
Phone: 212-659-8260