John P. Wikswo, Jr, PhD
University Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, and Physics
A. B. Learned Professor of Living Physics
Founding Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
For the past 47 years, John Wikswo has worked on measurements and modeling in bioengineering and electrophysiology, originally at the scale of humans, dogs, and rodents, and more recently at the level of nanoliter bioreactors and individual cells. He explored in depth the relationship between cardiac electric and magnetic fields and the generation of the vector magnetocardiogram. With his collaborators, he made the first measurements of the magnetic field of a single axon and a single skeletal muscle fiber.