University of Michigan
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Center for Neural Communication Technology
The Center for Neural Communication Technology (CNCT) stands at the crossroads where biomedical engineering and neuroscience meet and looks to a future when technology will interface with the brain, ushering in revolutionary treatments, therapies, and neural repair. CNCT's core research includes advanced probe technology, electrical and chemical interfaces, biocompatibility studies, and drug delivery systems. CNCT's efforts are aimed at pushing the leading edge of neuroscience by developing increasingly sophisticated brain implants. A critical enabling technology will be the next generation of neural probes that can interface with the central nervous system at both cellular and network levels. As the premier resource for neural communication technology, CNCT offers a systematic, sequenced research and development program that integrates cutting-edge neurotechnologies with pioneering neuroscience applications. The Center works closely with its collaborators to define and test new techniques and devices that are directed at providing more powerful neural interfaces. Beyond its core research program, CNCT disseminates the latest information available to its diverse communities, offers training and develops protocols; and provides key services to facilitate device delivery and set benchmarks for performance. -
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Utilizing molecular diagnostics, molecular imaging technologies and pathway-specific targeting to identify, assess and treat a range of cancers including prostate, breast, colon, pancreas, hem-malignancies, and glioblastoma. One of the top Comprehensive Cancer Centers in US with expertise in onco-genomics, cancer stem cell, and translational research. -
Inflammation and Immunology
Univ of Michigan research expertise focuses on the immunological, molecular, cellular and signaling pathway cascades of inflammation in a number of therapeutic systems. Epigenetics, developmental aspects, cellular and animal correlates to disease phenotypes, microenvironment, transcription factors, and pathways involved in inflammation are focused in a number of disease models including pulmonary, cardiovascular, renal and oncology. -
Center for Chemical Genomics
Center for Chemical Genomics (CCG) provides support for the development of chemical tools and therapeutically relevant drugs. CCG’s four components include: target development (as part of the Genome-wide RNAi Global Initiative); chemical diversity (synthetic/natural compound libraries); target-based screening; high through-put screening and chemo-informatics. -
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology (MCTP)
Identifying genetic factors involved in the development of a wide variety of diseases, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, and skin cancer, among others to identify and treat human disease. By combining cutting-edge research techniques including genomics, proteomics, coupled with innovative bioinformatics techniques and high-throughput analysis for identification of critical biomarkers, we tackle the mysteries of disease development and open the doorway of discovery for the treatment of human disease. -
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is home to a very broad range of expertise that spans space communications, quantum computing, high-speed lasers, low-power computing, network security, biomedical and environmental sensors, learning technology, and everything in between. -
Regenerative Medicine
Multiple UM centers (including UM Centers for Human ES Cell Research, Stem Cell Biology, Organogenesis and the Taubman Research Institute) are leveraging diverse stem cells types in cellular, developmental, cancer and reparative biology often in combination with biomedical engineering & tissue engineering in disease and injury models. -
Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center (MMOC)
MMOC supports rational, innovative and cost-effective behavioral, clinical, epidemiological and health services research which is critical to the meaningful translation of discoveries in the preclinical arena for metabolic disease. The MMOC provides core laboratory services in the areas of human and animal phenotyping as well as metabolomic profiling to encourage and enable researchers from preclinical, clinical and translational and population-based disciplines to integrate the newest tools in molecular and cellular biology, neurobehavior and computational biology into their studies related to metabolic health. -
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering (BME) leads a wide range of programs in biofluid mechanics, microfluidics, biologic micro- and nanotechnology, BioMEMS, biomaterials, biomolecular machines, tissue engineering, biomedical optics, biotechnology, biomechanics, and biomedical imaging. One of the largest programs in the country, BME brings together expertise from the College of Engineering, the Medicine School and other programs across campus. Resources include fully equipped tissue culture facilities; small animal facilities; multiple microscopy systems, such as confocal and TIRF ; as well as medical imaging systems, such as real-time ultrasound, optical scanners and a 3T whole body MRI scanner. The Michigan Nanofabrication Facility, one of the best in the country for the design and manufacture of microelectronic circuits, is used extensively for implantable biosensor transducers and bioMEMS devices. A new addition to the clean room, more than doubling current space, is already underway. The Functional MRI Center combines cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and biomedical engineering research. -
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science (AOSS) conducts extensive research in the areas of climate change, air quality, and the dynamics and chemistry of the lower atmosphere. Activities include climate modeling, in-situ measurements, design of instruments, kinetics of chemical reactions and remote sensing from space. AOSS participates in field campaigns, designing and integrating instruments on balloons, aircraft and sounding rockets to study the dynamics and composition of the atmosphere and the near space environment of the Earth. AOSS Theoretical and modeling efforts at AOSS include developing sophisticated numerical models on a range of topics spanning ocean waves and currents; the impact of naturally occurring and man-made aerosols on climate; the formation and transport of air pollutants; the composition of the outer planets; and plasma physics of the Earth's magnetosphere and heliosphere. -
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering offers a broad range of programs that span all major areas in both traditional chemical engineering (such as fluids, polymers, colloids, reaction engineering, separations, and statistical thermodynamics) and emerging areas (such as DNA sequencing on a chip, gene therapy, metalloprotein drug design, bioinformatics, green chemistry and computational engineering). Expertise can be found in the areas of catalysis & reactions, biomolecular engineering, cellular engineering, computing & simulation, nanotechnology, materials, microfabricated systems, sustainable energy, polymers & complex fluids. -
Materials Science and Engineering
Programs span a broad range of material systems, applications and technical approaches. A small sampling of activity includes the development of: aluminum alloys to increase fuel efficiency by decreasing vehicle weight; conductive polymer coatings to interface electronics with neural tissue enabling prosthetic devices to restore sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf; semiconductor structures for use in new computer architectures based on inherently quantum mechanical effects; organic molecule-based solar cells to harvest energy more cost effectively from the sun; methods to guide the assembly of nano-particles into structures useful for catalysis, photonics and molecular electronics; piezoelectric ceramics for use as ultrasound transducers in medical applications; high strength alloys for use at extreme temperatures in engines and turbines; fabrication of ceramic materials for use in bone tissue engineering; new materials for nuclear waste management on geologic time frames; simulation methods to predict how processing affects reliability and can be used to prevent failure; and controlled laser manipulation of materials. Increasingly materials scientists and engineers focus on the control of atomic scale structure to change materials properties. This focus has pushed our discipline to the forefront of developing and applying new tools to observe and manipulate matter at the smallest scales.
