Research Areas

         NJIT's Biomedical Engineering Centers and Labs provide undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students numerous possibilities to participate and perform research in biomedical engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, neural engineering, bio-printing, computational biomechanics, and rehabilitation engineering, to list a few.
          Our Faculty Researchers and their research focus are as outlined here.
Research
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Bryan Pfister

Professor and Chair, BME
Director of Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine

Lab/Center: Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine

Research Focus:

  • Characterization of Shock Tubes
  • Neurophysiology and Behavioral Outcomes
  • Biomedical and Molecular Characterization
  • Blood-Brain Barrier Damage​
  • Animal injury models
  • Blast and Blunt Injury studies
  • Tissue engineering
  • developmental neural biology
  • axon growth
  • mechanisms of neural injuries
  • nervous system injury repair.
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Tara Alvarez

Distinguished Professor, BME
Director of Vision and Neural Engineering Laboratory

Lab/Center: Vision and Neural Engineering Laboratory

Research Focus:

  • Vision Rehabilitation
  • Treatment to regain oculomotor function
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Concussion
  • functional imaging
  • eye movements
  • data analytics
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Bharat Biswal

Distinguished Professor, BME

 

Research Focus:

  • brain activity mapping.
  • fMRI studies to understand how different regions of the brain communicate while the brain is at rest.
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Sergei Adamovich

Professor, BME
Director of Neuromotor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation Engineering Lab

Lab/Center: Neuromotor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation Engineering Lab


Research Focus:

  • Neural engineering
  • rehabilitation engineering
  • computer-assisted rehabilitation
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Mesut Sahin

Professor, BME
Director of Neural Prosthetics Laboratory

Lab/Center: Neural Prosthetics Laboratory


Research Focus:

  • Neuromodulation of the Cerebellum
  • Transcranial AC Stimulation (tACs)
  • Focused Ultrasound (FUS) Stimulation
  • Sensori-Motor Content of Cerebellar Signals
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Vivek Kumar

Associate Professor, BME
Director of Biomaterial Drug Discovery, Delivery & Development Laboratory

Lab/Center: KumarLab

Research Focus:

  • Tissue engineering
  • Drug development
  • Medical devices
  • Peptide based biomaterials
  • self-assembly
  • in vitro testing
  • in vivo models
  • angiogenesis
  • inflammation.
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Xianlian Alex Zhou

Associate Professor, BME
Director of BioDynamics Lab

Lab/Center: BioDynamics Lab

Research Focus:

  • Computational biomechanics
  • digital human modeling
  • robotics and human-machine interface
  • Musculoskeletal biomechanics
  • Cardiovascular biomechanics
  • Computational Multiphysics
  • personalized medicine.
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Xiaobo Li

Assocciate Professor, BME
Director of Computational Neuroanatomy and Neuroinformatics Laboratory

Lab/Center: Computational Neuroanatomy and Neuroinformatics Laboratory


Research Focus:

  • Computational neuroanatomy
  • multi-modal MRI (structural MRI, fMRI, DTI)
  • bioinformatics
  • graph theory
  • machine learning
  • neuroimaging in brain development and disorders (e.g. ADHD, ASD, schizophrenia, TBI).
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Alice Eun Jung Lee

Assocciate Professor, BME



Research Focus:

  • Cardiovascular tissue engineering
  • applied mechanics
  • stem cells
  • regenerative medicine.
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Saikat Pal

Assistant Professor, BME
Director of Life Sciences Motion Capture Lab

Lab/Center: CORE Lab

Research Focus:

  • computational biomechanics
  • aging and motor control
  • Cerebral palsy gait
  • Human performance database
  • Exoskeleton assisted locomotion
  • Spinal cord injury rehabilitation
  • Biomechanics of baseball pitching
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Jonathan Grasman​

Assistant Professor, BME
Director of Tissue Innervation and Muscle Mimetics Laboratory

Lab/Center: Tissue Innervation and Muscle
Mimetics Laboratory

Research Focus:

  • Tissue Engineering
  • Biomaterials
  • 3D tissue models
  • Tissue innervation
  • Neurovascular interactions
  • Soft tissue regeneration and reconstruction
  • Skeletal muscle tissue engineering
  • Neural tissue engineering
  • Nervous system injury and repair
  • Stem cells and cellular reprogramming
  • Biopolymers
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Amir Miri

Assistant Professor, BME
Director of Advanced Biofabrication Laboratory

Lab/Center: MIRI Lab

Research Focus: 

  • Fabrication of hydrogel microfluidic chip
  • Bioprinting
  • Medical devices to deliver drug-loaded hydrogels
  • Novel biofabrication procedures
  • Organ-on-chip platforms
  • Microfluidics for drug-screening
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Alexander Buffone

Assistant Professor, BME
Director of Cellular Motion Lab


Lab/Center: Cellular Motion Lab

Research Focus:

  • Glycobiology
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Mechanobiology
  • Cellular Motion
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Jongsang Son

Assistant Professor, BME
Director of Clinical Neuromuscular Adaptation Laboratory


Lab/Center: Clinical Neuromuscular Adaptation Laboratory


Research Focus:

  • Neuromuscular biomechanics
  • musculoskeletal modeling
  • ultrasound imaging
  • neuromuscular adaptation
  • neuromuscular dynamics
  • muscle weakness
  • rehabilitation engineering
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Elisa Kallioniemi

Assistant Professor, BME
Director of Brain Stimulation Lab

Lab/Center: Brain Simulation Lab

Research Focus:

  • Brain stimulation
  • neural engineering
  • biomarkers
  • neural plasticity
  • personalized therapeutics
  • neurological and psychiatric disorders
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George Collins

Research Professor, BME

Research Focus:

  • Amorphous phase in pharmaceuticals and biomaterial solids
  • molecular origin of physical behavior of polymeric and pharmaceutical solids
  • physical characterization of biomaterials
  • nano-fiber materials
  • fabrication of novel scaffolds for tissue engineering applications