Technological advancements in mechanical engineering have greatly benefited the domain of biology and medicine. Primarily, mechanical engineers apply fundamental engineering principles to build useful tools, devices, and systems for the biomedical field.
Our group is diverse with research spanning a broad range of biological and medical systems. Projects include developing new diagnostics for cancer and infectious diseases, investigating the mechanics of traumatic brain injury, modeling the inner workings of the human eye, and much more.
Specialties
- Biomechanics and Biofluids
- Cellular and Molecular Systems and Instrumentation
- Diagnostics and Biomedical Devices
- Integrated Biological Systems
- Tissue and Organ Systems
Faculty
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Email:ibarman@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-0656
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Email:jdelainebrown@jhu.eduPhone:410-516-6609
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Email:yun.chen@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-5194
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Email:ncowan@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-5301
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Email:schur@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-6653
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Email:mittal@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-4069
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Thao (Vicky) Nguyen
Professor and Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty ScholarEmail:Vicky.Nguyen@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-4538 -
Kaliat (K.T.) Ramesh
Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and EngineeringEmail:ramesh@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-7735 -
Email:ssun@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-4003
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Email:thwang@jhu.eduPhone:(410) 516-7086
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Email:s.weng@jhu.edu
Affiliated Groups, Centers, and Institutes
- Center for Imaging Science
- Institute for NanoBioTechnology
- The Institute for Computational Medicine
- The Barman Laboratory
- Haptics and Medical Robotics (Brown)
- Mechanical Engineering of Wet-Materials (Chen)
- Locomotion in Mechanical and Biological Systems (LIMBS) Laboratory (Cowan)
- Flow Physics and Computation Lab (Mittal)
- Hur Lab on Micro-Fluidic Biophysics
- The Kang Group
- Terradynamics Lab (Li)
- Mechanics of Soft Adaptive Materials (Nguyen)
- Cell Mechanics Group (Sun)
- BioMEMS and Single Molecule Dynamics Lab (Wang)
Merging Mechanical Engineering and Medicine
Setting the bar for biotechnology