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  VIIBRE People

  VIIBRE Administration

John Wikswo
Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE)
 
Franz Baudenbacher
Deputy Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE)
 
Kevin Seale
Director, Searle Systems Biology and Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Experience (Searle SyBBURE)

Current Faculty Fellows

Franz J. Baudenbacher
Biomedical Engineering, Physics
Kirill Bolotin
Physics
Alan Bradshaw  /  Lab
Surgery, Physics, Biomedical Engineering
James D. Chappell
Pathology
Jin Chen  /  Lab
Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology, Cancer Biology
Chang Chung  /  Lab
Pharmacology, Biological Sciences
David E. Cliffel  /  Lab
Chemistry, Pediatrics
James Crowe
Biochemistry
   
Jeffrey M. Davidson
Pathology
Craig Duvall
Biomedical Engineering
Jon Edd
Mechanical Engineering
Michael Freeman
Radiation Oncology
Todd Giorgio
Biomedical Engineering
David Hachey
Biochemistry / Pharmacology
Antonis Hatzopoulos
Cardiovascular Medicine
Shane Hutson  /  Lab
Physics, Biological Sciences
Christopher J. Janetopoulos
Biological Sciences
David S. Kosson
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Eugene J. LeBoeuf
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Deyu Li
Mechanical Engineering
Charles Lin
Radiation Oncology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Cancer Biology
Dmitry Markov
Cancer Biology
Lynn Matrisian
Cancer Biology
Ray Mernaugh
Biochemistry
Lisa J. McCawley
Cancer Biology
Owen McGuinness
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
BethAnn McLaughlin
Neurology
John A. McLean  /  Lab
Chemistry
David Merryman
Biomedical Engineering
Susan R. Opalenik  /  Lab
Pathology
Ambra Pozzi
Nephrology
Vito Quaranta  /  Lab
Cancer Biology
Ann Richmond  /  Lab
Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology
Sandra Rosenthal
Chemistry
Douglas B. Sawyer
Medicine
Kevin Seale
Biomedical Engineering
Veniamin Y. Sidorov
Biomedical Engineering
Hak-Joon Sung
Biomedical Engineering
David L. Tabb
Biomedical Informatics
Momchil S. Velkovsky
Physics and Astronomy
Donna Webb
Biological Sciences
Sharon M. Weiss  /  Lab
Electrical Engineering and Physics
Keith Wilson
Gastroenterology
Yaqiong Xu
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
Jamey Young
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Andries Zijlstra
Pathology, Biology

 

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Igor Ges
Biomedical Engineering
Eduardo Andrade Lima
Biomedical Engineering
Dmitry A. Markov
Biomedical Engineering
 

Technical Staff

Vanessa Allwardt
Microfluidic Imaging Specialist
David McLean
Research / Development Engineer
Ronald Reiserer
Laboratory manager
Philip C. Samson
Research / Development Engineer
David K. Schaffer
Research / Development Engineer
 

Administrative Staff

Patrick E. Bembry
Administrative Assistant
Don Berry
Tech Support / Web development
Cheryl D. Cosby
Administrative Assistant
Libby E. Johnson
Administrative Assistant
Allison Price
Editorial Assistant
 

VIIBRE Scientific Steering Committee
(Vanderbilt University)

Franz J. Baudenbacher
Biomedical Engineering, Physics
David E. Cliffel  /  Lab
Chemistry, Pediatrics
Jeffrey M. Davidson
Pathology
Shane Hutson  /  Lab
Physics, Biological Sciences
Christopher J. Janetopoulos
Biological Sciences
Deyu Li
Mechanical Engineering
Lisa J. McCawley
Cancer Biology
Susan R. Opalenik  /  Lab
Pathology
Ann Richmond  /  Lab
Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology
Douglas B. Sawyer
Medicine
Kevin T. Seale
Biomedical Engineering
John P. Wikswo
Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Physics
Andries Zijlstra
Pathology, Cancer Biology
 

VIIBRE Scientific Advisory Board

Albert H. Beth, Ph.D.
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University
Jim Davidson, Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
Thomas R. Harris, M.D., Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Billy Hudson, Ph.D.
Medicine, Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University
David S. Kosson
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Anantha Krishnan, Sc.D.
Engineering Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abraham P. Lee, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine
Lawrence J. Marnett, Ph.D.  /  Lab
Biochemistry, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
David W. Piston, Ph.D.  /  Lab
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Physics, Vanderbilt University
Ned A. Porter, Ph.D.
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University
Stephen Quake, D.Phil.  /  Lab
Bioengineering, Stanford University
Robert J. Scherrer, Ph.D. Physics, Vanderbilt University
Michael L. Simpson, Ph.D.  /  Lab
Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory;
Materials Science & Engineering, UT Knoxville
George M. Whitesides, Ph.D.  /  Lab
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Industrial Advisory Board

Chair: James N. Hollenhorst, Ph.D.
Director of Strategic Research Initiative, Senior Director of IP Strategy, Agilent Technologies
C. Fred Battrell, Ph.D.
Vice President, Operations, Micronics, Inc.
Robert C. Jones, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Fluidigm Corporation
Shira Kramer, Ph.D.
President and Founder, Sterilex Corporation
Darren R. Link, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Vice President of R&D, RainDance Technologies, Inc.
Celeste Null
Director of Biomedical Engineering, Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation
Robert J. Steffan, Ph.D.
Director, Biotechnology Development and Applications, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc.
Shankar Sundaram, Ph.D.
Director, Bioengineering center at USF (Univ. of Florida) Draper Laboratory
James J. Valdes, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisor for Biotechnology, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
 

Current Active External Associates

Lloyd M. Davis
University of Tennessee Space Institute
Richard A. Gray  /  Lab
Food & Drug Administration
William H. Hofmeister
University of Tennessee Space Institute
Jerry W. Jenkins
Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology
Hod Lipson  /  Lab
Cornell University
Yuxin Liu
West Virginia University
Wolfgang Losert
University of Maryland
Dana Marshall
Meharry Medical College
Ilya Nemenman
Emory University
Kevin Kit Parker
Harvard University
Andrew Pullan
Auckland University, New Zealand
Masoud Radparvar
HYPRES, Inc.
Bradley J. Roth
Oakland University
Leslie Shor
University of Connecticut
Roy G. Thompson
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Mingjun Zhang
University of Tennessee