Core Faculty
(Other Participating Faculty)

Jerome S. Schultz, Distinguished Professor and Chair

• Schultz Research Laboratory
• Director of the Center for Bioengineering
• Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1958
• Member, National Academy of Engineering
• Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Fellow, BMES
• Intracellular sensors and metabolic controls

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Bahman Anvari, Professor

• Ph.D., Bioengineering, Texas A&M University, 1993
• Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
• Biophotonics, cell membrane electromechanics

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Paul Citron, Adjunct Professor

• MSEE, University of Minnesota, 1972
• Emeritus Vice President, Technology Policy and Academic Relations Medtronic, Inc.
• Member, National Academy of Engineering
• Senior Fellow, The von Liebig Center, UCSD
• Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
• American College of Cardiology Governor's Award for Excellence

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Jiayu Liao, Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
• Overseas Outstanding Young Investigator Award by the Chinese NSF
• Signal transduction pathways, small ubiquitin-like modifier ligase, G protein-coupled receptors, fatty acid induced insulin resistance, high-throughput screening, bioinformatics

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Julia Lyubovitsky, Assistant Professor

• Director of BI Laboratory (Biospectroscopy & Imaging Laboratory)
• Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2004
• NSF CAREER Award, 2009
• Biomedical imaging and non-destructive optical techniques, molecular-level control of protein/peptide assembly and dissassembly

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Dimitrios Morikis, Professor

• Director of BioMoDeL (Biomolecular Modeling & Design Laboratory)
• Ph.D., Physics (Biophysics), Northeastern University, 1990
• Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Immunophysics and immunoengineering; computational modeling of biomolecular structure, dynamics, and interactions; structural bioinformatics; protein, peptide, and drug design; NMR spectroscopy

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B. Hyle Park, Assistant Professor

• Director of The Park Research Group
• Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Irvine, 2005
• NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award, 2007
• Optical imaging techniques such as optical coherence tomography to neuroscience

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Victor G. J. Rodgers, Professor

• Director of The B2K Group (Biotransport and Bioreaction Kinetics Group)
• D.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Washington University, 1989
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
• Biotransport phenomena, bioreaction kinetics, redox cellular reactions, drug delivery vehicles, bioseparations

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Valentine Vullev, Assistant Professor

• Director of the Vullev Group
• Ph.D., Chemistry, Boston University , 2001
• Biophysics, microfluidics and charge transfer

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