Webpage:
http://biomed.tamu.edu/faculty/humphrey/
“A primary goal of our laboratory is to synthesize rapidly increasing molecular, cellular, and biomechanical data on mechanobiological responses in the vasculature within a general theory of growth and remodeling that permits development of computational fluid-solid-growth models. Such models promise to enable us, for the first time, to predict disease progression and responses to clinical interventions, and thereby to change the paradigm of medical device design. Devices should be designed based on how the tissues will adapt in response to the altered chemo-mechanical loading.”
Biography
Jay D. Humphrey received the B.S. degree from Virginia Tech and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Engineering Science and Mechanics, and he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Research at The Johns Hopkins University. Professor Humphrey has authored a graduate textbook (Cardiovascular Solid Mechanics: Cells, Tissues, and Organs), co-authored an undergraduate textbook with a former student (An Introduction to Biomechanics: Solids and Fluids, Analysis and Design), co-authored a general textbook (Style and Ethics of Communication in Science and Engineering), co-edited a research book (Cardiovascular Soft Tissue Biomechanics), contributed chapters to 16 other books, and published over 140 journal articles. He was elected to the US National Committee on Biomechanics and the World Council of Biomechanics, and he serves as co-Editor of the international journal Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
Keywords
Biomechanics
Aneurysms
Cerebral vasospasm
Hypertension
Soft tissue growth and remodeling
Tissue engineering
Continuum Biomechanics Laboratory
Jay D Humphrey
Regents Professor
Carolyn S. & Tommie E. Lohman Professor
M.E. DeBakey Institute Fellow
Office: 335L Zachry
Phone: 979-845-5558
Email:
Education:
Post-doc, Cardiovascular Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1987
Ph.D., Applied Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985
M.S., Applied Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982
B.S., Applied Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1981
