Core Research Themes

Sensing Systems - Medical Instrumentation and Measurement

The development of new methodologies for image acquisition and processing is necessary to establish new procedures for monitoring therapy response and clinical diagnosis. Current research activities aim to create imaging systems that can provide continuous, non-invasive, inexpensive monitoring for a variety of organs and tissues in clinical abnormalities:

• Diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy (Professor Sergio Fantini)
• Optical tweezers (Professor Mark Cronin-Golomb)
• Medical informatics (Professor Vo Van Toi)
• Optical Diagnostics for Diseased and Engineered Tissues (Professor Irene Georgakoudi)
• Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics (Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto)

Regenerative Medicine - Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Combining knowledge in cell and molecular biology, physiology with biomaterials, biomechanics and biotransport phenomena, regenerative medicine aims to understand the mechanical, structural and biological processes associated with designing and developing systems to repair or replace damaged organs and tissues. Current research activities address aspects of cellular engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering.

• Tissue engineering (Professor David Kaplan)
• Regenerative medicine (Professor Catherine K. Kuo)