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Biomedical Engineering is devoted to the entire scope of medical intervention including engineering based research on fundamental physiology and pathophysiology, research on new technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and the development and design of new medical devices. Biomedical engineering at Texas A&M University is one of the oldest such programs in the United States.
The Cardiac Mechanics Lab in the Texas A&M Department of Biomedical Engineering is headed by Dr. John Criscione. Our Research and educational activities cover many areas of biomedical engineering, including biomechanics, biomedical optics, biomedical ultrasonics, bioinstrumentation, and signal processing, medical device system safety and human factors, and medical device design. Although our faculty have broad interests and capabilities, the main thrusts of our graduate programs are in the areas of biomedical optical sensing and imaging, and biomechanics, including emphasis on mechanobiology -the response of the biological system to stress. Research in each of these areas occurs at the whole body, tissue, cellular and molecular levels.
In addition to our core faculty, we have close affiliations with faculty engaged in biomedical engineering research within other engineering departments in the highly ranked Dwight Look College of Engineering and in the College of Veterinary Medicine, at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center.
In addition to on and off campus research, Biomedical Engineering graduate students may participate in internships, and other temporary.
Current funding of Biomedical Engineering research is from the National Institutes of Health, the Whitaker Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, NASA, the American Heart Association, the U.S Army Medical Research and Material Command, the Texas Advanced Technology and Advanced Research Programs, and the medical device industry.
