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Mechanical engineering plays a significant role in the development of a fundamental understanding of the biomechanics of diseases in order to find novel solutions for treatment and new methodologies for drug delivery.
Active Research Areas
- Robotics for rehabilitation from neurological injury
- Bio-inspired sensing technologies (haptics, vibrissal sensing, flow sensing, electrolocation)
- Sensing algorithms (network topologies, minimal sensing models)
- Bio-inspired robots
- Biomaterials
- Biosystems manufacturing
- Protein folding mechanics in disease
- Drug delivery
- Nanoscience
- Computational fluid dynamics for biology
- Nanoscale manipulation of bio-molecules