Diagnostic and Therapeutic Engineering

The unique opportunities for interactions between basic and clinical scientists that exist on a Health Science campus such as UCSF has allowed numerous advances in diagnosis and development of new treatment strategies, as well as novel methods for delivering and evaluating therapies. Engineering has a major role to play in terms of developing new instrumentation, designing sensors of biological activity to evaluate normal and abnormal physiology, computational modeling of disease processes and designing techniques for monitoring surrogate markers of response to therapy in model systems and human subjects. Specific areas of interest are:

• Mechanisms for delivering novel drug and gene therapies that take advantage of specific biological and biochemical properties of the disease with minimal impact upon surrounding normal tissue.
• Designing novel instrumentation, visualization software and computer-aided simulations for optimizing invasive procedures such as robotic surgery, intra-operative monitoring, focal radiation therapy, hyperthermia and cryosurgery.
• Developing new probes for tissue characterization, diagnosis and evaluation of response to therapy using methodologies such as genomics, proteinomics and imaging.

Courses in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Engineering

Faculty with research related to Diagnostic and Therapeutic Engineering

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