New York Center for Biomedical Engineering

NYCBE consists of over 30 internationally-recognized faculty whose research complements and synergizes with that of our core faculty

• Name: Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD
  Title: Assistant Professor, Surgery
  Name of Institution/Company: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Research Interests: Thoracic surgeon with expertise and research in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in the chest, including medical devices.
  Contact Information:  adusumip@mskcc.org  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
• Name: Priti Balchandani, PhD
  Title: Assistant Professor, Radiology and Neuroscience
  Name of Institution/Company: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
  Research Interests: Developing novel techniques to exploit the power of high-field MR magnets to visualize the brain in unprecedented detail.
  Contact Information:  priti.balchandani@mssm.edu  
                                                                                                                                                                                                              
• Name: Jean-Philippe Berteau, PhD
  Title: Assistant Professor, Biomechanics
  Name of Institution/Company: CUNY CSI
  Research Interests: Key biological factors that govern bone's mechanical behavior
  Contact Information: jean.berteau@csi.cuny.edu   

• Name: Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PhD
  Title: Head, Neuroblastoma Program; Enid A. Haupt Chair in Pediatric Oncology
  Name of Institution/Company: MSKCC
  Research Interests: Immunotherapy, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
  Contact Information: cheungn@mskcc.org
  Tel: 212-639-5954

• Name: Kevin Costa, PhD
  Title: Senior Faculty, Cardiology
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Contact Information: kevin.costa@mssm.edu
  Tel: 212-241-7122
  Fax: 212-241-4080

• Name: Stephen B. Doty, PhD
  Title: Senior Scientist
  Name of Institution/Company: The Hospital for Special Surgery
  Research Interests: Morphology and histology of bone.
  Contact Information: dotys@hss.edu
  Tel: 212-606-1417

• Name: Zahi Fayad, PhD
  Title: Professor, Radiology
  Institution/Company: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Contact Information: zahi.fayad@mssm.edu
  Tel: 212-241-6858
  Fax: 240-368-809

• Name: Rita Z. Goldstein, PhD
  Title: Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  Name of Institution/Company: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Cognitive-emotional-behavioral and neurobiological changes that accompany drug addition; Pharmacological fMRI and PET-MRI-ERP
  Contact Information:  rita.goldstein@mssm.edu
  Tel: 212-824-9312
   
• Name: Marilyn Gunner, PhD
  Title: Professor, Physics
  Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
  Research Interests: Protein electrostatic calculations; electron transfer studies.
  Contact Information: mgunner@ccny.cuny.edu

• Name: James Iatridis, PhD
  Title: Associate Professor, Orthopaedics
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Contact Information: james.iatridis@mssm.edu
  Tel: 212-241-1517
   
• Name: Kung-Ming Jan, MD
  Title: Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine
  Name of Institution/Company: Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
  Research Interests: Lipoprotein transport across arterial endothelium.
  Contact Information: kj3@columbia.edu
   
• Name: Kam W Leong, PhD
  Title: Samuel Y Sheng Professor
  Institution: Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Systems Biology, Columbia University
  Research Interests: Direct cell reprogramming for regenerative medicine applications. Design of carriers to efficiently deliver transcriptional factors and genome editing elements to the cells. Nanoparticle-mediated gene delivery and immunotherapy.
  Contact: kam.leong@columbia.edu
  http://orion.bme.columbia.edu/leonglab
   
• Name: Ali Sadegh, PhD
  Title: Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
  Research Interests: Computational biomechanics, bone remodeling.
  Contact Information: sadegh@ccny.cuny.edu

• Name: Lisa Satlin, PhD
  Title: Chief, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Mount Sinai Medical CenterProfessor, Pediatric Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Research Interests: Ontogeny and mechanoregulation of epithelial cell function in kidney
  Contact Information: Lisa.Satlin@mssm.edu
  Tel: (212) 241-7148

• Name: David Spray, PhD
  Title: Professor, Neuroscience
  Name of Institution/Company: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Research Interests: Biophysics of gap junctions.
  Contact Information: spray@aecom.yu.edu
  Tel: 718-430-2537 

• Name: Herb B. Sun PhD
  Title: Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
  Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  Name of Institution/Company: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Research Interests: Arthritis, Tendinopathy, Musculoskeletal injuries, Cancer
  Contact Information: herb.sun@einstein.yu.edu

• Name: Yi Sun, PhD
  Title: Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
  Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
  Research Interest: Nanomicroscopy and Imaging Processing
  Contact Information: ysun@ccny.cuny.edu
  Phone: 212-650-6621

• Name: Cheuk Tang, PhD
  Title: Associate Professor, Radiology
  Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Contact Information: cheuk.tang@mssm.edu
  Tel: 212-241-7255

• Name: Peter A. Torzilli, PhD
  Title: Senior Scientist
  Name of Institution/Company: The Hospital for Special Surgery
  Research Interests: Soft tissue biomechanics, cellular/molecular bioengineering.
  Contact Information: TorzilliP@hss.edu
  Tel: 212-606-1087

• Name : Harini Veeraraghavan, PhD
  Title: Associate Member, Department of Medical Physics
  Name of Instutition/Company: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Research Interest: Computer vision and machine learning applied to medical image analysis for various problems including tumor and mormal structures segmentation, radiomics, radiogenomics analysis for correlating image-based features to treatment outcomes, and image registration for multi-modality images
  Contact Information: veerarah@mskcc.org

• Name: Peter Walker, PhD
  Title:  Professor
  Name of Institution/Company: NYU-Hospital for Joint Disease, Orthopedic Program, NYU School of Medicine
  Research Interest: Design of Knee Replacements
  Contact Information: ptrswlkr@aol.com
   
• Jie Wei, PhD
  Title: Professor, Computer Science
  Name of Institution/Company: CCNY
  Research Interest: Medical Imaging Processing
  Contact Information: wei@cs.ccny.cuny.edu
  Tel: 212-650-5604
   
• Name: Alan Weinstein, PhD
  Title: Professor, Physiology & Medicine
  Name of Institution/Company: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
  Research Interests: Fluid transport and renal physiology.
  Contact Information: alan@nephron.med.cornell.edu
   
• Name: Timothy M. Wright, PhD
  Title: Director, Department of Biomechanics & Biomaterials, The Hospital for Special Surgery
  Professor, Applied Biomechanics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
  Research Interests: Design and performance of bone-implant systems, mechanics and mechanobiology of bone tissue.
  Contact Information: WrightT@HSS.EDU

• Name: Robert J. Young, M.D.
  Title: Director, 3T MRI Neuroadiology, Associate Attending, Neuroradiology Service, Department of Radiology
  Name of Instutition/Company: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Research Interest: Development and translation of advanced MR imaging technologies to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning and
  treatment monitoring of patients with brain cancers.
  Contact Information: youngr@mskcc.org