Aydin Tozeren
Professor
Office: Bossone 713
Phone: +1 215 895 6148
E-mail: tozeren@coe.drexel.edu
| Degrees | B.S. (Orta Dogu Technical University, 1971) M.S. (Columbia University, Engineering Mechanics, 1972) Ph.D. (Columbia University, 1974) |
| Research | Breast cell adhesion and communication; signal transduction networks in cancer and epithelial cells; integrated bioinformatics; molecular profiling; 3D-tumors; bioimaging. |
| Bio | Dr. Aydin Tozeren, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University and Co-Director of the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1974 and has been a full professor at the Catholic University of America since 1990. Previously, he held academic and research positions at Columbia University and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Tozeren published studies in the areas of cell adhesion and signaling, molecular basis of muscle contraction, biomechanics, and the mathematical modeling of biological systems. His book "Human Body Dynamics: Classical Mechanics and Human Movement" received the best engineering title award for the year 2000 by the American Association of Publishers. In 2003 Prentice Hall has published his book "New Biology for Engineers and Computer Scientists" (co-authored with Stephen Byers). Dr. Tozeren received and directed research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defence Breast Cancer Research Fund, and the Whitaker Foundation. Dr. Tozeren taught a large number of graduate and undergraduate courses, guided doctoral dissertations, and received in 1996, the Alpha Delta Gamma Outstanding Teacher Award at the Catholic University of America. In 2001 he served as member at the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Whitaker Foundation. |