Institute
professor, Parker Petit Distinguished Chair
for Engineering
In Medicine, and Director, Parker H. Petit
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Nerem is currently doing
research in the field of cellular and tissue
engineering. In
the past, he has done research on blood flow
in large arteries, the role of hemodynamics
in the initiation of atherosclerosis, and
the influence of flow on vascular endothelial
biology.
He began his research career in aerospace
engineering, conducting studies on heat transfer
in high-temperature
shock-heated gases.
Fred
Saigh Distinguished Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, Washington University
Bioelectric phenomena; mathematical
modeling and computer simulations of cardiac
excitation
and arrhythmias at the cellular, tissue and
whole-heart levels; models of cardiac ion
channels; electric fields generated by the
heart and electrocardiographic imaging; mapping
approaches to the study and diagnosis of
cardiac electrical function.
Wallace
H. Coulter Chair and Professor,
Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
McIntire recently
assumed leadership of the Biomedical
Engineering Program jointly offered by Georgia
Tech
and Emory University School of Medicine
after building a strong department at
Rice University. His research is focused
on
understanding the interplay among fluid
mechanics, convective mass transport,
cell biology, and molecular biology in the
cardiovascular
system.
Professor
Emeritus of Bioengineering and
Applied Mechanics
OUBC Advisory Board Founding Member
Fung's research areas include
stress-growth law of blood vessels: inventing
new techniques
and
developing
new experiments
to determine the zero-stress state and
the constitutive equations of blood vessel
components
including collagen, elastin and smooth
muscle; lumped layers including the endothelium,
media, and adventitia; and the vessel
as a whole. Interests also include morphometry
of systemic and pulmonary
blood vessels in health and disease; continuum
mechanics in pulmonary physiology; and
theory to integrate morphology, mechanical
properties,
rheology, thermal environment, and boundary
conditions into a pressure-flow relationship.
