Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Professor Mitchell Schaffler, Director • Institute Office: Steinman 401 • Tel: 212-650-6707
The CUNY Institute for Biomedical Engineering, or New York Center for Biomedical Engineering (NYCBE), is a consortium of the Grove School of Engineering at The City College and several of the prominent health care institutions in New York City. It was formed in 1994 with the support of the Whitaker Foundation.
A unique feature of this effort is that it involves a synergistic cooperation between the nation’s largest urban public university and numerous world-class research medical centers in New York City. The NYCBE provides a unique partnership where CCNY undergraduate and graduate students are actively engaged in research.
The current NYCBE medical center partners are:
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Cardiovascular Research Foundation
- Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Hospital for Special Surgery
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- New York University School of Medicine
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The NYCBE has internationally recognized researchers (from CUNY and eight affiliated institutions) in the areas of arterial fluid mechanics and transport, cartilage and intervertebral disc biomechanics, tissue engineering and biomaterials, microvascular exchange, bone biomechanics and remodeling, biomedical imaging and instrumentation, and neural engineering. The outstanding quality and diversity of the NYCBE member faculty are reflected in their society affiliations, membership on select panels of the National Institutes of Health, National Research Council, NASA, and editorships and associate editorships of major journals.