Bioengineering & Biotechnology

Alan P. Koretsky

Research TopicsThe Section of Plasticity and Imaging of the Nervous System has two major research interests. One is to develop novel functional and molecular im…

Alexander Cartagena-Rivera

Research TopicsThe focus of the Section on Mechanobiology is the development and use of advanced Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) technologies for cellular and tis…

Winona Nice, Ph.D.

Dr. Winona Nice serves as a program director at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). With a background in surgical navigatio…

Zhuang Wei, Ph.D.

Dr. Zhuang Wei received his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2018, he joined the National Can…

Megan Poorman, Ph.D.

Megan Poorman, Ph.D., is a Program Director at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). She brings experience in research and de…

Kristin Hedgepath Gilchrist, Ph.D.

Kristin Gilchrist, Ph.D., is a Program Director for the NIBIB Division of Health Informatics Technologies. Prior to joining NIBIB, Dr. Gilchrist was the Associa…

Cydney Dennis, Ph.D.

Cydney Dennis, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Section on Mechanics and Tissue Remodeling Integrating Computational & Experimental Systems (MATRICES)…

Michael Burgess

Michael Burgess II obtained his B.S. in Bioengineering from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC. During his college tenure, he conducted r…

Jacob Davis, Ph.D.

Dr. Jacob Davis received his Ph.D. in BioEngineering in 2023 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, co-advised by Drs. Eberhard Voit and Sam Brown. At Georgi…

Madison Daminato

Madison graduated from the University of Michigan in 2023 and received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering on her road to becoming a physician-scientist. Madison…