Center Directors
Rehan Kapadia, PhD
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Areas: materials science, next-generation electronic and photonic devices, material growth techniques
Megan L. McCain, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
Research Areas: striated muscle tissue engineering, organs on chips, disease modeling, mechanotransduction
Leonardo Morsut, PhD
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Research Areas: synthetic biology, protein/genetic engineering, stem cell biology, computational modeling, tissue morphogenesis
Center Participants
Gerald E. Loeb, MD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director of the Medical Device Development Facility
Research Areas: physiology, mechanics and neural control of musculoskeletal systems, neural prosthetic devices and haptically enabled robots
Noah Malmstadt, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemistry
Research Areas: bottom-up synthetic biology, microfluidic reactors and diagnostics
Francisco Valero-Cuevas, PhD, ScD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy, Computer Science, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering (Systems)
Research Areas: biomechanics, neuromuscular control, clinical rehabilitation of human mobility (see: Fundamentals of Neuromechanics)