Located in the heart of Houston, Texas, our faculty and students are collaborating with clinicians, clinical-scientists, and researchers across the Texas Medical Center (TMC) to drive innovations in health technologies.
We seek to design innovative biomaterials-based platforms for various biomedical engineering applications using new instructive materials, fabrication processes, and characterization tools, as well as modeling.
We use experimental and computational methods to study how mechanical stimuli regulate the biological function of cells, tissues and organs. By elucidating the mechanisms governing tissue homeostasis and disease progression, our work enables the development of clinically translatable diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
We leverage the interactions of light with tissue across spatial and temporal scales to understand health and treat disease. Our work integrates innovations in optical hardware and software for broad applications from fundamental studies of physiological processes to disease diagnostics and therapeutics.
We seek to apply interdisciplinary engineering principles and basic science to understand, control and restore the function of living cells, tissues and organs. It integrates cells, biomaterials and new approach methods to create biological substitutes and models of normal or diseased tissues and organs to ultimately derive new medical treatments and drugs.
This research aims to explain, model and predict the behavior of biological and physiological systems. We develop and apply a variety of techniques to understand physiologic versus pathologic processes with an emphasis on fundamental discovery, early detection, and novel treatment strategies.
We focus on advancing the next generation of imaging and sensing technologies to enhance health and human performance while prioritizing affordability and efficiency. Target applications include imaging and biomarker monitoring for disease, and physiological tracking to improve health outcomes, quality of life and healthcare efficiency for humans and animals.
Funded by an NSF Engineering Research Center grant, PATHS-UP is working to develop revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and systems at the point-of-care.
The SWPDC is a virtual accelerator that supports pediatric device innovators throughout the pediatric device life cycle and is supported by a grant from the FDA.
