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Biomechanics & Biosystems Engineering
Molecule
Coiling of DNA (Perkins Laboratory)Protein motors (Nanomechanics Laboratory)
Protein docking simulation (Saitou Laboratory)
DNA/protein dynamics in confining environments (Fu Laboratory)
Cell
Cell adhesion and mechanics (Garikipati Lab)Biomicrofluidics (Microsystems Technology and Science Laboratory)
Neurobiology of C. elegans (Chronis Group)
Cell mechanics and mechanotransduction; Engineering stem cell microenvironments (Fu Laboratory)
Tissue
Mechanics of muscle, tendon, skin (Arruda Biomaterials Laboratory)Engineering of bone and ligaments (Orthopaedic Research Laboratories)
Mechanics of biological composites (Computational Mechanics Laboratory)
Micromechanics of biomaterials (Thouless Laboratory)
Organ
The inner ear (Grosh Laboratory)Vaginal birth-related injuries (Biomechanics Research Laboratory)
Wound healing (Heterogeneous Multiscale Materials Laboratory)
Body
ACL injuries, falls in the elderly (Biomechanics Research Laboratory)Prosthetic limbs (Human Biomechanics and Control Lab)
Rehabilitation (Biomechanics Research Laboratory, Sienko Laboratory)
Sensory augmentation (Sienko Laboratory)
Mechanics of swimming (Schultz Laboratory)
Medicine
Global health design (Sienko Laboratory)Image-guided radiation therapy (Saitou Laboratory)
Laparoscopic surgery tools (BioMEMS/NanoPositioning Lab)
Wearable biomedical monitoring devices (Perkins Laboratory, Sienko Laboratory)
Lab on a chip (Hart Lab)
Biomedical device design (Shih Laboratory)
Biomedical impact of nanoparticles (Multiscale Computational Nanoscience Lab)
Systems
Mechanics and control of human walking (Human Biomechanics and Control Lab)Biologically inspired robots (Microsystems Laboratory)
Image-based chemical database annotation (Saitou Laboratory)
Robotic aids for disabled (Mobile Robotics Laboratory)
Human-machine interfaces (Haptix Laboratory)
How do proteins transport materials within a cell? How does the human ear automatically accommodate loud noises? How are biological accelerometers used to control balance?
The mechanics of materials, motion, and fluids are central to many aspects of biology and medicine. Mechanical engineers at U-M develop new devices and methodologies for a wide variety of biomedical and scientific applications. See how mechanical engineering applies to an enormous range of scales
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Mechanics of muscles, tendons, skin |
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Vaginal birth-related injuries, sports injury prevention, loss of balance & falls, aging, medical instrumentation |
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Robotic aids for disabled |
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Neurobiology of C. elegans, bio-imaging and neural networks, biosensors |
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DNA/protein dynamics in confining environments; cell mechanics and mechanotransduction; engineering stem cell microenvironments |
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Cell adhesion and mechanics |
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Human-machine interfaces |
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Structural acoustics, cochlear mechanics, electroacoustic transducers |
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Lab on a chip |
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Therapeutic ultrasound, shock waves and cavitation in human tissue |
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Rehabilitation, mechanics and control of human walking |
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Endocytosis, motility, and cellular reconstitution |
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Protein motors |
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dynamics of neural networks and gene-regulatory networks | |
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Coiling of DNA, wearable biomedical monitoring devices |
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Protein docking, radiation therapy, chemoinformatics |
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Wound healing |
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Biomedical device design |
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Rehabilitation, sensory augmentation, medical device design |
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Micromechanics of biomaterials |
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Biomedical impact of nanoparticles |