At Cornell, biomedical engineering faculty and students use engineering to control how and when medicines are delivered. They study these medicines’ effects on cells and tissues, and their efficacy in trials. Their projects aim to precisely target medicines, such as cancer treatments. They also develop devices for long-lasting injections and systems for vaccine delivery or single-cell genome sequencing or to understand the impact of outside influences on cells. The work integrates investigators working across length scales in all fields of engineering and also include investigators in chemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, veterinary medicine and human medicine.
Cornell provides key resources for this research, including the Chemistry Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility, the Cornell Center for Materials Science, the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility and the Cornell Center for Biotechnology. Most projects involve investigators at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine.
The faculty researchers in this area exemplify the collaborative nature of the work done at Cornell Engineering.
Faculty
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Ilana Lauren Brito
Associate Professor Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Field Faculty
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Christopher A. Alabi
Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor
R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Susan Daniel
William C. Hooey Director of the R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Fred H. Rhodes Professor of Chemical Engineering
R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Matthew DeLisa
Director of the Institute of Biotechnology William L. Lewis Professor
R.F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Brian Kirby
Associate Director of Undergraduate Affairs Meinig Family Professor of Engineering
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Ailong Ke
Robert J. Appel Professor in Molecular Biology and Genetics
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
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Uli B. Wiesner
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
