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Director: Salam Rahmatalla, professor of civil and environmental engineering, professor of biomedical engineering

Research areas: Human vibration research, motion capture

Learn more: 3D Bio-Motion Research Lab

Director: Edward Sander, associate professor of biomedical engineering

Research areas: Biomaterials and biomechanics, computational mechanics, tissue engineering

Learn more: 3MT Laboratory

Director: James Ankrum, assistant professor of biomedical engineering

Research areas: Biomaterials and biomechanics, physiology, tissue engineering

Learn more: Ankrum Lab

Director: Suresh Raghavan, professor of biomedical engineering

Email: ml-raghavan@uiowa.edu

Phone: (319) 335-5704

Research areas: Biomaterials and biomechanics, computational mechanics

Learn more: BioMOST Lab

Director: Mathews Jacob, professor of electrical and computer engineering

Research areas: Artificial intelligence, medical imaging

Learn more: Computational Biomedical Imaging Group

Director: Jennifer Fiegel, associate professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences and experimental therapeutics 

Email: jennifer-fiegel@uiowa.edu

Phone: (319) 335-5162

Research area: Biomaterials

Learn more: Fiegel Lab

Director: Yang Liu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering

Email: yang-liu-ece@uiowa.edu

Phone: (319) 467-0918

Research areas: Artificial intelligence, medical imaging, photonics/optical sensors, sensors

Learn more: Integrated Imaging and Cyberphysical System Laboratory

Director: Michael Schnieders, associate professor of biomedical engineering, assistant professor of biochemistry

Research areas: Artificial intelligence, biomaterials and biomechanics, molecular biophysics

Learn more: Michael Schnieders Laboratory

Director: Al Ratner, associate professor of mechanical engineering

Research area: Biodevices

Learn more: Ratner Research Group

Director: Joseph Reinhardt, professor and department executive officer of biomedical engineering, professor of radiology

Research areas: Artificial intelligence, medical imaging

Learn more: Reinhardt Biomedical Imaging Lab

Director: Syed Mubeen, assistant professor of chemical and biochemical engineering

Research area: Biodevices

Learn more: Syed Mubeen Research Group

Director: Fatima Toor, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, assistant professor of physics and astronomy 

Email: fatima-toor@uiowa.edu

Phone: (319) 335-6071

Research areas: Biodevices, photonics/optical sensors, sensors

Learn more: Toor Lab

Director: Stephen Baek, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering

Email: stephen-baek@uiowa.edu

Phone: (319) 384-0810

Research areas: Artificial intelligence, medical imaging, motion capture

Learn more: Visual Intelligence Laboratory

Director: Kristan Worthington, assistant professor of biomedical engineering

Research areas: Biodevices, Biomaterials and biomechanics, and Tissue engineering

Learn more: Worthington Lab

Recent News

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UI researchers work to significantly improve brain scan resolution

Thursday, December 31, 2020
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Sponsored by a National Institute on Aging grant, University of Iowa scholars believe they can generate ultra-high-resolution images of the brain through synergies in deep learning algorithms and novel sequences on a 7 Tesla (7T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner.
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Mariam El-Hattab works in the 3MT Lab.

El-Hattab wins award in 3MT research competition

Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Written by
Cory Tays
University of Iowa Technology Institute
Last month, El-Hattab's video explanation won the People's Choice award, a top prize in the UI's annual Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. The competition is designed to challenge graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences. 
Student presenting research in the BioMOST lab

Raghavan among 2020 faculty awardees

Monday, November 23, 2020
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A University of Iowa Technology Institute (ITI) faculty affiliate is among 21 faculty and staff members being honored with the University of Iowa’s 2020 Faculty and Staff Awards. Suresh M.L. Raghavan was the lone recipient from the College of Engineering.
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