For immediate release: January 27, 2011
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AIMBE Elects Class of 2011 to the College of Fellows
Washington, DC– The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) announced the election of 79 new members to the College of Fellows. The newly elected Fellows were nominated and approved by current Fellows of the College, consisting of over 900 engineers and scientists.
Recipients of this honor are recognized for their outstanding achievements in medical and biological engineering. A formal induction ceremony will be held during the Institute’s 20th Annual Event at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 2011. For more information about the AIMBE Annual Event, please visit www.aimbe.org.
“It is a great pleasure to see such talented individuals inducted into the College,” said Thomas C. Skalak, AIMBE President and Vice President for Research at the University of Virginia. “This group truly enhances the fabric of our society. We look forward to working with them to advance innovations that benefit all of humanity.”
With Fellows in every U.S. state – and in nations around the world – the College includes leaders in industry who are entrepreneurs, directors of research and development, and corporate executives Fellows are heads of engineering and medical schools at major universities, and are among the most respected professors and researchers at those institutions. Within academia, AIMBE Fellows are highly recognized for their contributions in teaching, research, and innovation. Many AIMBE fellows are also members of the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.
The College of Fellows leads the way in technological advancement, advocating for public policies that facilitate progress in medical and biological research, and development of products and services that benefit the public. Since 1991, AIMBE Fellows have helped to revolutionize medicine, engineering and related fields that enhance and extend the lives of people all over the world. Counting several Nobel Prize winners among them,fellows help to protect the environment, lead new national security safeguards, and contribute to a healthier and more productive society.
The 2011 College of Fellows are:
Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D.
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
For pioneering contributions to the field of combinatorial biomaterial development for drug delivery and medical devices.
Dorothy Abel
US Food and Drug Administration
For leading the definition of FDA policy on regulating endovascular grafting and other important cardiovascular medical devices.
Nancy Allbritton, M.D., Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
For contributions to advanced instrumentation methods for microanalysis and assessment of cell signaling pathways.
Ananth Annapragada, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
For pioneering research and product development in drug and contrast agent delivery, particularly physical and receptor targeting processes.
Tadej Bajd, D.Sc.
University of Ljubljana
For contributions to functional electrical stimulation assisted standing and walking in spinal cord injured subjects.
Gina E. Bertocci, Ph.D., P.E.
University of Louisville
For leadership of international committees that establish industry standards on seating crashworthiness and seating use in motor vehicles in wheelchair transportation.
Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
University of Texas at El Paso
For exceptional contributions in the inception and implementation of cell printing and rapid prototyping technology vision for regenerative medicine.
Alan Conrad Bovik, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
For seminal contributions to biomedical image processing and for technical leadership in video processing, digital mammography, digital microscopy, and modeling of visual perception.
Joel D. Bumgardner, Ph.D.
University of Memphis; Herff College of Engineering
For effectively providing biomaterial research in corrosion, implant surfaces and cell interfaces and infection prevention and control.
Diane Burgess, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
For fundamental work in drug delivery including emulsion and suspension stabilization, gene delivery, and the development of novel dosage forms.
Mark E. Byrne, Ph.D.
Auburn University
For pioneering contributions to the development of the first recognitive, intelligent systems for responsive delivery of drugs, peptides and proteins, and for industrial leadership through founding of two successful biotech companies.
Sergio Cerutti, Ph.D.
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
For leadership in biomedical signal processing and modeling of cardiovascular and neural systems.
Kim Chaffin, Ph.D., P.E.
Medtronic World Headquarters Campus
For her translational research in biomaterials, collaborative spirit, and ability to mentor early career bioengineers.
Christopher Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
For the use of microfabrication tools to study the role of cell adhesion, cell shape, and cell mechanics in regulating cell function.
Wilfred Chen, Ph.D.
University of California
For distinguished contributions in environmental biotechnology and biosensing of pathogens, and for pioneering synthetic cellulosomes for bioethanol production.
Howard Chizeck, D.Sc.
University of Washington
For contributions to the use of control system theory in functional electrical stimulation assisted walking.
Michael Cho, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Chicago
For seminal contributions in establishing tissue engineering methods to regulate cell and tissue behavior over multiple length scales.
Eric Clarkson, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
For rigorous, creative mathematical treatment of fundamental problems in medical imaging, including new approaches to image quality and tomographic reconstruction.
Patrick Daugherty, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara
For seminal contributions to peptide discovery and engineering technologies, and their use for therapeutic and diagnostic agent development.
Stanislav Emelianov, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
For fundamental and applied research in ultrasound-guided photoacoustic imaging including bionanotechnology for functional molecular and cellular imaging and image-guided therapy.
Dario Farina, Ph.D.
Aalborg University, Denmark
For fundamental engineering contributions to neurorehabilitation technology, and brain-computer interfaces.
Neal Edward Fearnot, Ph.D.
MED Institute, Inc.
For many contributions as an innovator, inventor, business leader, and regulatory science expert.
Evan Flatow, M.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
For substantial contributions to orthopaedic surgery, science, and engineering, and translating these advances to clinical practice.
Cecilia Giacelli, Ph.D.
University of Washington
For the creation of engineered biomaterials therapies that foster healing, control chronic inflammation, ectopic calcification, and foreign body response.
Kathryn Jane Grande-Allen, Ph.D.
Rice University
For creating devices for in vitro investigation of the mechanobiology of normal, diseased, and engineered connective tissues, particularly heart valves.
Joe W. Gray, Ph.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
For developing chromosome sorting, bi-variate cell cycle analysis, fluorescence in situ hybridization, competitive genomic hybridization, and cancer specific markers.
Jeffrey Gross, Ph.D.
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
For the successful integration of multiple engineering disciplines with biology to commercialize medical products.
John C. Hertig, M.B.A.
Alfred Mann Institute at Purdue University
For executive and entrepreneurial leadership across the medical device industry.
Maury L. Hull, Ph.D.
University of California at Davis
For eminent contributions to bioengineering through research in musculoskeletal biomechanics, leadership in bioengineering education, and distinguished service to professional societies.
Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
For major contributions to cell and tissue engineering, as well as angiogenesis and cancer research, systems biology, and nanobiotechnology.
Duco Janson, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
For pioneering optical stimulation of nerves and excellence in biomedical engineering education and quantitative studies of laser irradiation in living systems.
Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D.
University of Washington
For advancing the engineering applications of the biointerface, both theoretically and experimentally.
Peter Konrad M.D., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
For achievements in the field of functional neurostimulation in improving the lives of those suffering neurodegenerative symptoms.
Flaura Koplin Winston, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
For visionary leadership as both pediatrician and engineer in clinical research, practice and training for the prevention of child injury.
Prashant N. Kumta, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
For outstanding contributions to nanostructured biomaterials science and technology as applied to craniofacial and orthopedic tissue engineering applications.
Joerg Lahann, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
For continuously advancing the frontiers of biomedical research by pioneering work on anisotropic particles, vapor-borne coatings, and switchable surfaces.
Ton van Leeuwen, Ph.D.
Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam
For contributions to the application of optical technology to clinical diagnosis and therapy.
Peter I. Lelkes, Ph.D.
Drexel University
In recognition of contributions to biomaterials engineering, particularly the “intelligent” scaffolds, which greatly advanced cardiac and pulmonary tissue engineering.
Changming, Li, Ph.D.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
For pioneering achievements and outstanding contributions in the research, development, and application of biosensors and biomedical lab-on-chip systems.
Debaio Li, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
For contributions to the development and clinical application of fast MRI techniques to detect coronary artery disease noninvasively.
Michael Lightner, Ph.D.
University of Colorado
For the application of engineering principles and of leadership in the study of cognitive disabilities and technologies for their remediation.
William Link
Versant Ventures
For his pioneering career in the biotech industry and achievements as a business leader, researcher, educator and philanthropist.
Quentin Liu, Ph.D.
Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU)
For outstanding contributions to cancer research and targeted cancer therapy.
Gabriel Lopez, Ph.D.
Duke University
For outstanding contributions in development of bioanalytical systems and biointerfacial phenomena with application in biotechnology, medical diagnosis and environmental monitoring.
Helen Lu, Ph.D.
Columbia University
For groundbreaking research and extraordinarily high levels of attention to mentoring in interface tissue engineering.
Laura Marcu, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
For development of optical instrumentation for tissue spectroscopy and imaging and its application to cancer and atherosclerosis.
Duncan T. Moore, Ph.D.
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
For advancing technology for clinical endoscopy, leadership in biomedical entrepreneurship education, and leadership contributions in science and engineering public policy.
Sriram Neelamagham, Ph.D.
State University of New York, Buffalo
For development and application of quantitative experimental and theoretical bioengineering methods for the study of human inflammatory and thrombotic disorders.
Jens Nielson, Ph.D.
Chalmers University of Technology
For outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of metabolic engineering and advancing the concepts and methods of systems biology.
Kim H. Parker, Ph.D.
Imperial College
For contributions to our understanding of arterial mechanics.
Avinash G. Patwardhan, Ph.D.
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
For work as an educator, a pioneer and a leader in the area of spinal biomechanics.
Frank A. Pintar, Ph.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
For seminal contributions to our understanding of human tolerance of the cervical spine and thorax, particularly in automotive crash environments.
Judith E. Puskas, Ph.D, P.E.
The University of Akron
For seminal contributions to the development of novel biomaterials for improving health.
Yi-Xian Qin, Ph.D.
State University of New York, Stony Brook
For work in orthopedic biomechanics, which has provided unique insights into the mechanical control of bone repair and remodeling.
John C. Reed, M.D., Ph.D.
Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research
For developing automated high-throughput techniques for use in drug discovery research, especially as it applies to cancer as well as leading a major research organization that is at the forefront of biomedical research.
Arthur B. Ritter, Ph.D.
Stevens Institute of Technology
For excellence and service in biomedical engineering education, and contributions to cardiovascular physiology and modeling.
Mario Roederer, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
For pioneering work on polychromatic flow cytometry and its application to understanding immune response to infection.
Alan V. Sahakian, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
For contributions to electrophysiology of atrial cardiac arrhythmias.
Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D.
Washington University
For pioneering work on biomaterials for drug delivery and cell transplantation for the treatment of peripheral nerve and spinal cord injury.
Kamal Sarbadhikari
SensiVida Medical Technologies
For pioneering development of major products in ophthalmology and dermatology.
Mitchell B. Schaffler, Ph.D.
City College of New York
For contributions revealing the interrelationships among fatigue, matrix microdamage and remodeling in bone health and fracture resistance and studies of osteocyte mechanotransduction.
Rahamim Seliktar, Ph.D.
Drexel University
In recognition of significant contributions in limb prosthetics, particularly artificial legs, that led to the advancement of rehabilitation engineering.
Anne Skaja Robinson, Ph.D.
University of Delaware
For contributions to understanding of in vivo protein folding and pathways of protein aggregation and refolding, and for professional leadership.
Larry Sklar, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico
For contributions to instrumentation and assays for quantitative analysis of molecular assemblies and high throughput screening of chemical libraries.
Jeffrey M. Toth, Ph.D.
The Medical College of Wisconsin
For outstanding contributions in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering for research accomplishments and novel clinical applications to bone graft materials and carriers and spinal implant systems.
Maximo Eugenio Valentinuzzi, Ph.D.
National University of Tucuman, Argentina
For applications of electromagnetics to biology and medicine.
William Van Antwerp
Medtronic, Inc.
For outstanding achievements in protein drug delivery, insulin pump therapy, and continuous glucose monitoring.
Ed X. Wu, Ph.D.
The University of Hong Kong
For contributions to MRI diffusion imaging, capillary vasculature imaging, contrast agents, and pioneering work in MRI characterization of tissue iron.
J. H. David Wu, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
For his contribution to the fields of cellulosic biomass utilization and bone marrow cell culture technology.
Younan Xia, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
For seminal contributions to the design and controlled synthesis of nanostructured materials for various biomedical applications.
Ronald E. Yoder, Ph.D., P.E.
University of Nebraska
For significant contributions to water resource management and standards in agriculture, and for leadership of professional and academic organizations.
Narayan Yoganandan, Ph.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
For advancing the frontiers of scientific understanding of head and neck trauma, particularly within the automotive crash environment.
Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For discoveries and inventions of several self-assembling peptide systems for 3D tissue cultures, tissue regeneration, protein and siRNA deliveries.
Otto Zhou, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
For the invention of a new x-ray source technology and for development of x-ray imaging and radiotherapy instrumentation.
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