Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Professors
Heather Clark

Heather Clark
School Director and Professor, Olin Endowed Chair
Research Interests
Nanosensors, chemical imaging, nanoscale contrast agent development for MRI, fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging
Lab: The Clark Lab
Vikram Kodibagkar

Vikram Kodibagkar
Professor
Research Interests
MRI probe and technique development for cellular, molecular and metabolic imaging
Lab: ProBE Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-4635
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181D
Thurmon Lockhart

Thurmon Lockhart
Professor, MORE Foundation Professor of Life in Motion
Research Interests
Locomotion, aging, falling, gait and posture, and computational biodynamics and biomechanics, wearable biomedical systems.
Lab: Locomotion Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-1499
Tempe Campus, ECA 323
Marco Santello

Marco Santello
Professor, Fulton Professor of Neural Engineering
Research Interests
Neural control of movement, sensorimotor learning, neuromodulation, neuroimaging, prosthetics
[email protected]
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281J
Sarah Stabenfeldt

Sarah Stabenfeldt
Associate Director and Professor
Research Interests
Regenerative medicine, targeted theranostics, neurotrauma
Lab: Stabenfeldt Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-8336
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281E
Xiao Wang
Associate Professors
David Brafman

David Brafman
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Pluripotent stem cells, neurodegenerative disease, developmental biology, regenerative medicine biomanufacturing, gene editing
[email protected]
(480) 727-2859
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 231
Christopher Buneo

Christopher Buneo
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Neural engineering, neuromodulation, neurorehabilitation, neurophysiology, sensorimotor control
[email protected]
(480) 727-2556
Tempe Campus, ECG 329
Albert Cheng

Albert Cheng
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Genome-epigenome-transcriptome editing, CRISPR, genomics, epigenetics, RNA, imaging, cancer, stem cells, synthetic biology, bioinformatics.
Lab: The Cheng Lab
[email protected]
(602) 543-6735
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181C
Emma Frow

Emma Frow
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Bioengineering,policy and society;governing emerging biotechnologies
[email protected]
(480) 727-7798
Tempe Campus, ECG 343
Bradley Greger

Bradley Greger
Associate Professor, SK Foundation Professor
Research Interests
Neural Engineering, movement disorders, vision restoration, seizure disorders
[email protected]
(480) 965-9134
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181G
Claire Honeycutt

Claire Honeycutt
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Clinical Biomechanics, Motor Control, Stroke, Falls, Orthotics
Lab: Human Mobility Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-8453
Tempe Campus, BDH 214
Jeff Kleim

Jeff Kleim
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Neural plasticity, neurorehabilitation, stroke
[email protected]
(480) 727-8354
Tempe Campus, ECG 327
Jit Muthuswamy

Jit Muthuswamy
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Neural Interfaces, neuromodulation, BioMEMS
[email protected]
(480) 965-1599
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181A
Mehdi Nikkhah

Mehdi Nikkhah
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Micro and nanoscale technologies, disease modeling, tissue engineering, cancer, tumor microenvironment models
Lab: Nikkhah Laboratory
[email protected]
(480) 965-0339
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181J
Vincent Pizziconi

Vincent Pizziconi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Medical device design innovation & regulation, cell & tissue regenerative medicine products, biomanufacturing, bioinspired & biomimetic complex adaptive biosystems, space bioengineering
Lab: Laboratory of BioInspired Complex Adaptive Systems
[email protected]
(480) 965-1071
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 225D
Rosalind Sadleir

Rosalind Sadleir
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Neuro imaging and neural activity detection, dynamic physiological monitoring, computational modeling
[email protected]
(480) 727-9790
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281L
Sydney Schaefer

Sydney Schaefer
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Motor control and learning, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neurorehabilitation
[email protected]
(480) 727-6651
Tempe Campus, BDH (PEBE) 222
Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Imaging and biomarker discovery, innovating point-of-care diagnostics
Lab: Smith Laboratory
[email protected]
(480) 727-8988
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181E
Xiaojun Tian

Xiaojun Tian
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Systems biology, synthetic biology, nonlinear dynamics gene circuits, EMT
Lab: Tian Lab
[email protected]
(480) 727-0023
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 595
Stephen Helms Tillery

Stephen Helms Tillery
Associate Professor & Fellow of the Lincoln Center for Applies Ethics
Research Interests
Cortical neurophysiology, neural control of movement, neuroprosthetics, neural engineering ethics
[email protected]
(480) 965-0753
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181H
Brent Vernon

Brent Vernon
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering
[email protected]
(480) 965-0929
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281H
Shaopeng Wang

Shaopeng Wang
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Biosensors and bioinstrumentations for biomedical applications
[email protected]
(480) 727-7081
Tempe Campus, Biodesign AL1-30A
Assistant Professors
Madeline Andrews

Madeline Andrews
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Human brain development, stem cells, organoid models, neurodevelopmental disease, neuro-immune interactions, metabolism, cell transplantation
Lab: The Andrews Lab
[email protected]
(602) 543-2200
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181B
Benjamin Bartelle

Benjamin Bartelle
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Molecular fMRI of neuroinflammation and degeneration, in vivo synthetic biology of reporters sensors and actuators, genetic and biomolecular circuits.
Lab: The BioProtean Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-2989
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 225C
Scott Beeman

Scott Beeman
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Quantitative MRI, Biophysical Modeling, Imaging and Metabolism
Lab: Beeman Lab
[email protected]
(480) 727-9061
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281D
Christopher Plaisier

Christopher Plaisier
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Systems biology, transcriptional regulatory networks, cancer, immunology
Lab: Plaisier Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-6832
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 225B
Sung-Min Sohn

Sung-Min Sohn
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Bio-inspired electrical circuits and systems, medical imaging instrumentation development, MRI electronics
[email protected]
(480) 727-9284
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281F
Kuei-Chun (Mark) Wang

Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Vascular bioengineering, mechanobiology, nanotherapeutics for treatment of vascular disease
[email protected]
(480) 727-2930
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281N
Jessica Weaver

Jessica Weaver
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Immunoengineering, biomaterials diabetes
Lab: The Weaver Lab
[email protected]
(480) 965-8200
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281M