George A. Truskey
george.truskey@duke.eduR. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Clinical trials in Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, translational research in Parkinson disease, tremor, stroke, and preclinical studies on Alzheimer's disease models, stroke, metabolism, and cerebral…
Lecturer in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Systems biology, synthetic biology, computational modeling, microbiomes, host-microbiome interactions, microbial metabolism
Executive in Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Theoretical and applied mechanics, Geomechanics, Irreversible Thermodynamics. Emphasis on the multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of MEMS
Study of the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems, including the investigation of the fundamental nature of nonlinear systems based on a mathematical description of their…
Using flexible electronics to create new technology for interfacing with the brain at high resolution over large areas. These new tools can help diagnose and…
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biophotonics, laser-excited luminescence spectroscopy, room temperature phosphorimetry, synchronous luminescence spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, field environmental instrumentation, fiberoptics sensors, nanosensors, biosensors and biochips for the protection…
Diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, IR imaging, medical instrumentation and their new applications.
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Pratt School of Engineering
Executive in Residence in the Pratt School of Engineering
Low-dimensional materialsNanofabrication and nanodevicesSemiconductors, ceramics, metalsQuantum computing
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Pratt School of Engineering
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Advanced instrumentation for diagnosis and treatment of electrophysiological problems. This research covers two primary organ systems: the heart and the brain. In the heart, Dr.…
Associate Professor Emeritus of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Adjunct Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, and High Dimensional Statistics
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies, and translating PAT advances into diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially in functional brain imaging and early cancer theranostics.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of ECE
Wearable computing, activity recognition, context awareness, machine learning, artificial intelligence, engineering education, and Middle Eastern politics
Principles and mechanisms of delivery for drugs, genes, and vaccines; pharmacokinetics; electrotransfer or electroporation technology; and tumor pathophysiology.
Water resources planning and management, drought modeling and control, flexible climate change adaptation, conceptual and data-driven systems modeling, reinforcement learning for water systems, multi-objective control,…
Nano-mechanical and nano-tribological characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films; self-assembled monolayers, polymeric gels, and cellulosics; Fabrication of polymeric nanostructures by scanning…
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Control theory, optimization, and learning; in particular, robotics and autonomous systems, networked and distributed control systems, and cyber-physical systems.