Biomedical Engineering

Field Description

The field provides rich, interdisciplinary opportunities in research and education leading to the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering. It integrates engineering and the life sciences to prepare students for diverse careers in academe, industry, and government.

The field focuses on both the molecular and macroscopic aspects of biomedical engineering and comprises five research areas: biomedical instrumentation; drug delivery, design and metabolism; biomaterials; computational and systems biology; and medical biomechanics. Facilities commonly used include the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, the NSF STC in Nanobiotechnology, the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), the Cornell Theory Center, the Cornell Center for Advanced Technology in Biotechnology, and the programs in the Department of Biomechanics and Biomaterials at the Hospital for Special Surgery, the Orthopedic Affiliate of the Cornell Medical College.

It is anticipated that students entering into the field of Biomedical Engineering will have received formal training in a recognized sub-discipline of engineering. Students obtain thorough training in biomedical engineering research. They also master the Ph.D. course work for a minor in a traditional engineering discipline and another minor in an area of the life sciences. Formal course work in the major includes a two-semester course in the Foundations of Biomedical Engineering, advanced BME analysis of biological systems, at least one other advanced course in bioengineering, and required seminars. Further, PhD students are expected to complete a six week immersion experience in medical research and clinical practice at Weill Medical College, as well as completing a graduate student teaching experience. M.S. students complete the Foundations in Biomedical Engineering course, two semesters of seminars, and typically four to five additional courses in engineering and the life sciences. These requirements are subject to revision.

Students are supervised by a core of faculty members who represent twelve departments in the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering, Human Ecology, Veterinary Medicine, and the Weill Medical College. Currently biomedical engineering is a program, but a process to form a distinct department is underway.

Contact Information

Website: https://www.bme.cornell.edu/bme/academics/graduate/ms/application_information.cfm
Email: biomedgrad@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-2573

109 Weill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Subject and Degrees

Biomedical Engineering (M.Eng.) (Ithaca)
Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Biomedical Engineering

biomedical engineering

Faculty

Steven Adie

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests:

Christopher Alabi

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Nelly Andarawis-Puri

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Daniel Joseph Aneshansley

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biological engineering and instrumentation; monitoring physiological parameters; modeling

James Francis Antaki

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Antje J Baeumner

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: analytical biotechnology; biosensor development; development of bioanalytical microfluidic devices; detection of hazardous biological and chemical substances

Carl A Batt

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Lawrence Bonassar

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests:

Ilana Lauren Brito

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Jonathan T. Butcher

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomechanics; tissue engineering; biomaterials

Chih-Chang Chu

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomaterials; biodegradable biomaterials for tissue regeneration and engineering; wound closures/healing; drug carriers

Benjamin Cosgrove

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Harold Gene Craighead

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: micro- and nanofabrication processes for creating biomedical instrumentation; microfluidic-based analysis systems and processes

Susan Daniel

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests:

Iwijn De Vlaminck

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Matthew P DeLisa

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: bioengineering of complex protein machiens; functional genomics; protein engineering; cellular protein folding

Peter Doerschuk

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering; biomedical imaging, especially image reconstruction; biosensors; analysis of complex data sets; computational biology

Eve Donnelly

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

David Erickson

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Lara A. Estroff

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomaterials; drug delivery

Claudia Fischbach-Teschl

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: cell and tissue engineering; biomaterials

Jack H Freed

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: instrumentation and energy; drug delivery

Jesse H. Goldberg

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Delphine Gourdon

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Christopher J. Hernandez

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

James Thomas Jenkins

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: continuum mechanics; biomechanics of cells and soft tissue

Moonsoo Jin

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering; protein engineering; cell-specific scaffolds for tissue engineering

Toshimitsu Kawate

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Michael R. King

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomaterials and drug delivery; biomedical mechanics; micro-nano-biotechnology; molecular, cellular and tissue engineering

Brian J. Kirby

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: microbioanalytical devices, biofluidics, combinatorial chemistry and drug delivery, bioparticle processing and cellular analysis, analytical biochemistry

Amit Lal

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Jan Lammerding

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Christiane Linster

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: computational biology of the sense of smell

John T Lis

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Dan Luo

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: molecular bioengineering for macromolecule-based drug delivery; nucleic acid engineering; intracellular delivery; nanobiotechnology

Minglin Ma

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests:

Suzanne A. Maher

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical mechanics; biomaterials and drug delivery

Frederick R Maxfield

Campus: Weill Medical
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Alyosha C. Molnar

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical imaging and instrumentation; micro-nano biotechnology

Nozomi Nishimura

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Christopher Kemper Ober

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

William Lee Olbricht

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: motion of blood cells in microcirculation; hydrodynamics

Matthew J. Paszek

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Gregory Petsko

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests:

Lois Pollack

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

David A Putnam

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: drug/gene delivery; viral vaccine stabilization; high-throughput drug formulation; biomaterial synthesis

Anthony P Reeves

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: computer analysis of biomedical images; computer aided diagnosis of lung cancer from three-dimensional CT images; analysis of video microscope images

Cynthia A. Reinhart-King

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: cell and tissue engineering; biomaterials

Mert Sabuncu

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Chris B. Schaffer

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Michael Louis Shuler

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: structured models; systems biology; cell culture analogs; pharmacokinetics

Ankur Singh

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Abraham Duncan Stroock

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: microfluidics; microchemical systems; biomaterials

Alexander J.A. Travis

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Marjolein van der Meulen

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: orthopaedic biomechanics; functional adaptations of the skeleton; musculoskeletal repair; adolescent bone mass acquisition

Jeffrey D. Varner

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Jonathan D Victor

Campus: Weill Medical
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: visual information processing; temporal coding; mathematical modeling of neural processes; EEG; nonlinear dynamics

Yi Wang

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical imaging

Yadong Wang

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Melissa R. Warden

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering

Alan M Weinstein

Campus: Weill Medical
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: Physio & Biophysics

Ulrich Bernd Wiesner

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical engineering

Rebecca M. Williams

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: biomedical imaging

Timothy M Wright

Campus: Weill Medical
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: bone-implant systems; wear of joint replacements; bone mechanics

Mingming Wu

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Biomedical Engineering: biomedical engineering
Research Interests: molecular, cellular, and tissue engineering; micro-nanobiotechnology

Chunhui (Chris) Xu