External Research Projects
The following external faculty members offer research projects to CMU BME Master’s students.
The students are encouraged to contact the external faculty directly.
Kambez H. Benam, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, and Bioengineering
Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Study on Spatiotemporal Spreading Dynamics of Cells and Tissues with Organs-on-Chips
Timothy E. Corcoran, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering
Co-Director, Pulmonary Translational Research Core
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Studying the Gut-Lung Axis in people with HIV using Nuclear Imaging Techniques
Kang Kim, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Bioengineering
Heart and Vascular Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Ultrasound super resolution imaging
Georgios D. Kitsios, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Director, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Research Pathway, Internal Medicine Residency Program
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Lung Microbiota Signatures for Pneumonia Diagnosis using Nanopore MinION
Corrine R. Kliment, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director and Assistant Dean, MSTP
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Mitochondrial Transfer to Lung Epithelial Cells using Extracellular Vesicles (EVs)
Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD, ATSF, FERS
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief of Research
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Regenerative pharmacology
Keven Mara Robinson, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Innate Host Defense during Post-Influenza Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Tomeka L. Suber, MD, PhD
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Itaconate-dependent genomic and metabolomic signatures within the lung during Klebsiella pneumoniae infection