RESEARCH STAFF
Lindsay Self
Administrative Assistant
Phone: (734) 764-4182
Fax: (734) 936-3815
Email: selindsa@med.umich.edu
Wei Zhang, PhD
Research Investigator
Email: zhawei@umich.edu
Research focus: Biological Electrical Conductivity Imaging using Magnetoacoustic Tomography, Photoacoustic Imaging
Phuc Nguyen, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: vanphucn@umich.edu
Research focus: Photoacoustic Imaging, Photothermal Therapy
Jeffrey Yu, MD
UM Ophthalmology Resident Physician
Email: yujef@med.umich.edu
Research focus: Retinal imaging
Nikhil Bommakanti, MD
UM Ophthalmology Resident Physician
Email: bommakan@med.umich.edu
Research focus: Retinal imaging
Mingyang Wang
University of Michigan PhD Candidate
Email: mingyanw@umich.edu
Research focus: Photo-mediated Ultrasound Therapy
Quynh Kieu
Visiting medical student, Michigan State University
Email: kieuquyn@msu.edu
Research focus: Retinal imaging
Nick Kinachtchouk
Visiting Medical Student, Central Michigan University College of Medicine
Email: kinac1ns@cmich.edu
Research focus: Retinal Imaging
Elizabeth Graham
UM Undergraduate, Biomolecular Science
Email: elizgrah@umich.edu
Research focus: Retinal Molecular Imaging
Sydney Jones
UM Undergraduate, College of Engineering
Email: sydjones@umich.edu
Research focus: Retinal Molecular Imaging
Caitlin Miranda
UM Undergraduate, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Email: cmir@umich.edu
Research focus: Ultra-wide-field retinal imaging in diabetic retinopathy
Research Mentors
Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Professor, Internal Medicine - Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes
Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Senior Scholar, A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute
Associate Chair, Research
Nicholas Kotov, PhD
Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Materials Science
Biointerfaces Institutes
Email: kotov@umich.edu
Xueding Wang, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Email: xdwang@umich.edu
Research focus: Development of novel optical and ultrasound based imaging and sensing technologies, and their applications to biomedicine
K. Thiran Jayasundera, MD, FACS, FRCSC, FRANZCO
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences University of Michigan
Email: thiran@med.umich.edu
Research Collaborators
Maria A. Woodward, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Science
University of Michigan
Email: mariawoo@med.umich.edu
Xinmai Yang, PhD
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Kansas
Email: xmyang@ku.edu
Gary (Guan) Xu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
Email: guanx@med.umich.edu
Julie M. Rosenthal, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan
Email: julieros@med.umich.edu
Sayoko E. Moroi, MD, PhD
William H. Havener, MD Endowed Professor,
Chair and Director of the Havener Eye Institute
Professor of Ophthalmology
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Email: Sayoko.Moroi@osumc.edu
Raoul Kopelman, PhD
Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Biology
University of Michigan
Email: kopelman@umich.edu