Bioengineering Graduate Program Faculty
Students in the joint PhD program can select faculty mentors at Oregon State University (listed below) or at the University of Oregon. At this time, MS students can only select faculty mentors from OSU.
Faculty
Holly Arnold
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Microbiome science, gut brain axis, cognition, learning, neurodegeneration, statistics.
Joe Baio
Associate Professor
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Biomaterials, biomimetics, molecular self-assembly
Ravi Balasubramanian
Associate Professor
ravi.balasubramanian@oregonstate.edu
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Robotics and human control systems
Vrushali A. Bokil
Interim Dean of the College of Science
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Mathematical biology - deterministic and stochastic modeling, analysis, and simulation of multiscale problems in population dynamics and epidemiology.
Kevin Brown
Associate Professor
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Biological systems, systems biology, systems neuroscience, and cognitive science
Larry Cheng
Associate Professor
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Nanomaterials and integrated biosensors for point-of-care testing
Pallavi Dhagat
Professor
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Biomagnetic applications, magneto-acoustics, magnetic metrology, 3D printed magnetic materials, spintronics
Kaitlin Fogg
Associate Professor
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Research Interests
The Fogg Lab aims to develop and exploit high throughput in vitro 3D models of cancer in order to identify novel druggable targets, improve treatment selection of current therapeutics, and reprogram the immune system in the metastatic niche
Elain Fu
Professor
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Biosensing and microfluidics for field-use applications
Morgan Giers
Assistant Professor
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Predicting treatment outcomes for intervertebral disc regenerative and surgical therapies., Utilizing MRI, image processing, mathematical modeling, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and surgery to study transport phenomena in vivo.
Stacey Harper
Professor
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Novel approaches to predictive toxicology
David Hendrix
Professor
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Structure, function and mechanisms of action of non-coding RNAs, both large and small.
Adam Higgins
Professor
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Technologies for long-term stabilization of cells, tissues and organs; microfluidic devices for chemical processing of blood.
Liang Huang
Professor
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RNA folding, RNA design, mRNA medicine, protein folding, protein design
Peter G. Jacobs
Professor
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Medical device design, ubiquitous sensing technologies, machine learning, control systems, and signal processing as applied towards diabetes technologies and other diseases including multiple sclerosis
Binata Joddar
Associate Professor
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Biomaterials, stem-cell-based tissue engineering, and tissue regeneration
Matthew Johnston
Professor
matthew.johnston@oregonstate.edu
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Research Interests
Electronic sensors, circuits, and devices, with an emphasis on biosensor and bioelectronic platforms, massively-parallel sensing, and lab-on-chip technologies for medical monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics.
Goran Jovanovic
Professor
goran.jovanovic@oregonstate.edu
Office Phone
(541) 737-3614; alt: (541) 737-2981
Research Interests
Design, manufacturing, and application of microscale-based therapeutic devices. Continuous blood processing via the i-Blood platform, a wearable, high-performance microfluidic device.
Heidi Kloefkorn
Assistant Professor
heidi.kloefkorn@oregonstate.edu
Research Interests
Our lab integrates noninvasive observational and analytical technology with tissue analysis to: , 1. better understand pathophysiology of chronic disease and injury conditions, 2. advance preclinical model assessment for better translational efficacy, and , 3. understand and minimize experimental bias
Marilyn Mackiewicz
Associate Professor
marilyn.mackiewicz@oregonstate.edu
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Research Interests
Our research is centered around 4 major themes that include: 1) designing nanoscale materials for biomedical and environmental applications , 2) studying nanoparticle-biological interactions and nanotoxicology, 3) developing diagnostic assays and systems to monitor disease states and therapeutic response, 4) systems for imaging and targeted drug delivery
Molly Megraw
Associate Professor
megrawm@science.oregonstate.edu
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Research Interests
Understanding how small RNAs and transcription factors work together in living cells.
Mike Pavol
Associate Professor
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Biomechanics of preventing falls and fractures; ergonomics of transferring people with disabilities
Benjamin Philmus
Associate Professor
benjamin.philmus@oregonstate.edu
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Research Interests
The Philmus lab is interested in the natural products, aka secondary metabolites, produced by both microorganisms and plants.
Stephen Ramsey
Professor
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Reverse engineering gene regulatory networks; genetic variation and its effect on gene expression and gene regulation; atherosclerosis; cancer.
Willie (Skip) Rochefort
Associate Professor
skip.rochefort@oregonstate.edu
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Research Interests
Rheological, molecular, thermal, and surface characterization of polymer-based biomaterials and biomedical devices
Thomas Sharpton
Associate Professor
thomas.sharpton@oregonstate.edu
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Research Interests
Using gut microbiomes to understand, diagnose, and treat chronic diseases
Bill Smart
Professor
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Robotics and machine learning
Bo Sun
Associate Professor
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Collective distributed sensing by multiple cells, mechanics of tumor and extracellular matrix, force generation and invasion of cancer cells.
Conroy Sun
Associate Professor
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Applying nanotechnology toward unanswered problems in cancer care.
Tim Warren
Assistant Professor
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Neuroscience; animal navigation; automated, closed-loop instrumentation; computer vision; computational biology