# Bioengineering
**Source**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/faculty/BENG.html
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/front/courses.html
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*All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.*
#### Professors
L. Alexandrov, PhD
P. Cabrales, PhD
G. Cauwenberghs, PhD
S. Chien, MD, PhD, *Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine*
K. L. Christman, PhD
A. Engler, PhD
D. A. Gough, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*
J. M. Hasty, PhD
M. J. Heller, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*
X. Huang, PhD
M. Intaglietta, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*
R. Knight, PhD
R. Lal, PhD
P. Mali, PhD
A. D. McCulloch, PhD
E. McVeigh, PhD
B. O. Palsson, PhD
R. L. Sah, MD, ScD
G. W. Schmid-Schönbein, PhD
G. A. Silva, PhD
S. Subramaniam, PhD
L. A. Sung, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*
A. Taylor, PhD, *Teaching Professor*
L. Tsimiring, PhD, *Recall Emeritus Professor*
J. T. Watson, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*
K. Zhang, PhD, *Chair*
S. Zhong, PhD
#### Associate Professors
K. Aran, PhD
F. Contijoch, PhD
S. Fraley, PhD
K. King, MD, PhD
E. Kwon, PhD
L. Shi, PhD
D. Valdez-Jasso, PhD
#### Assistant Professors
K. Adebowale, PhD (start date 3/1/25)
B. Aguado, PhD
T. Alexandrov, PhD
B. Bintu, PhD
F. Chapelin, PhD
E. Cyphert, PhD
R. Khojah, PhD, *Teaching Professor*
V. Kravets, PhD
B. Smarr, PhD
#### Adjunct Professors
A. Ahktar, PhD
T. Ideker, PhD
C.M. Metallo, PhD
B. Wheeler, PhD
K. Zhang, PhD
#### Affiliated Faculty
S. Abbasi, PhD, *Instructor of Engineering, Shiley-Marcos SOE at USD*
A. Almuatiri, PhD, *Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy*
V. Bafna, PhD, *Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*
C.R. Cantor, PhD, *Chief Scientific Officer, Sequenom, Inc. (Industry)*
S. Chen, PhD, *Professor, Nanoengineering*
P. Citron, PhD, *Previous VP, Corporate Science and Technology, Medtronic, Inc. (Industry)*
N. Devaraj, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*
D. Hall, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering*
E. Kistler, MD, *Assistant Professor, Critical Care and Anesthesiology*
J. Lasheras, PhD, *Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*
N. Lewis, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Pediatrics*
K. Ley, MD, *Professor, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology*
J. H. Omens, PhD, *Adjunct Professor, Medicine*
J. Perry, MD, *Professor, Pediatrics*
P. Rangamini, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*
E. Ruoslahti, MD, PhD, *Distinguished Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute*
E. Schoetz Collins, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences and Physics*
J. Schroeder, PhD, *Professor, Biological Sciences*
T. Seibert, MD, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology*
T. Sejnowski, PhD, *Professor, Salk Institute of Biological Studies*
S. Shah, MD, *Assistant Professor, In Residence, Orthopaedic Surgery*
J. Shyy, PhD, *Professor, Medicine*
N. Steinmetz, PhD, *Professor, Nanoengineering*
R. Weinreb, MD, *Professor, Ophthalmology*
S. Xu, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Nanoengineering*
G. Yeo, PhD, MBA, *Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine*
K. Zengler, PhD, *Assistant Professor, Pediatrics*
J. Zhang, PhD, PharmD, *Professor, Pharmacology*
L. Zhang, PhD, *Professor, Nanoengineering and Moores Cancer Center*
#### Professional Research Staff
D. Ban, PhD, *Assistant Project Scientist*
A. C. Chen, PhD, *Project Scientist*
A. Feist, PhD, *Research Scientist*
K. Mukund, PhD, *Assistant Project Scientist*
S. Razu, PhD, *Assistant Project Scientist*
A. Rodriguez-Soto, PhD, *Assistant Project Scientist*
D. Zielinski, PhD, *Assistant Project Scientist*