AIMBE ELECTS 2023 FELLOWS

March 27, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Charlie Kim (service@aimbe.org)

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) announced today the election of 122 new members of the AIMBE College of Fellows in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers. College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering and medicine research, practice, or education” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.”

AIMBE Fellows are among the most distinguished medical and biological engineers including 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 19 Fellows having received the Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation, and 206 also inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 109 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine and 44 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.

2023 AIMBE Fellows:

• Susan Abu-Absi, Ph.D., 2seventy bio
• Guillermo Aguilar, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Hongyu An, D.Sc., Washington University in St. Louis
• Nelly Andarawis-Puri, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Shivaun Archer, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Brenna Argall, Ph.D., Northwestern University
• Rima Arnaout, MD, University of California, San Francisco
• Randolph S. Ashton, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Marilyn Barger, Ph.D., Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence
• Anna Belu, Ph.D., Medtronic
• Gene A. Bornzin, Ph.D., Abbott (Retired)
• Kristy K. Brock, Ph.D., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Ashley C. Brown, Ph.D., North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Jianfeng Cai, Ph.D., University of South Florida
• Mary Caldorera-Moore, Ph.D., Louisiana Tech University
• Maria G. Castro, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School
• Nadeen O. Chahine, Ph.D., Columbia University
• Jingyi Chen, Ph.D., University of Arkansas
• Cynthia A. Chestek, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Melanie J. Coathup, BSc, Ph.D., University of Central Florida
• Rhima M. Coleman, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
• David T. Corr, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• James E. Crowe, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Guohao Dai, Ph.D., Northeastern University
• Kapil R. Dandekar, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Susan Daniel, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
• Derrick Dean, Ph.D., Alabama State University
• Charles C. Della Santina, MD, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Salil S. Desai, Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University
• Damini Dey, Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Congwu Du, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Bradley Duerstock, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Mary Dunlop, Ph.D., Boston University
• Kafui Dzirasa, MD, Ph.D., Duke University
• Issam El Naqa, Ph.D., Moffitt Cancer Center
• Yun Fang, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Bruce Gale, Ph.D., University of Utah
• Jan Grimm, MD, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Paul A. Harris, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Florence P. Haseltine, MD, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
• Karmella A. Haynes, Ph.D., Emory University
• Cecil F. Higgs, Ph.D., Rice University
• Mitchell Ho, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health
• Andrij Holian, Ph.D., University of Montana
• Yi Hong, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
• Tony Y. Hu, Ph.D., Tulane University
• Junzhou Huang, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
• Aileen Huang-Saad, Ph.D., MBA, Roux Institute, Northeastern University
• David Jaffray, Ph.D., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Diane Joseph-McCarthy, Ph.D., Boston University
• Lance Kam, Ph.D., Columbia University
• Jennifer J. Kang-Mieler, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology
• Andrea Kasko, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• Kattesh V. Katti, MSc.Ed, Ph.D., D.Sc., University of Missouri
• Shaf Keshavjee, MD, University Health Network
• Betty Y.S. Kim, MD, Ph.D., FRCSC, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• William S. Kisaalita, Ph.D., University of Georgia
• Abhijit Kulkarni, Ph.D., Cellino
• M. N. V. Ravi Kumar, Ph.D., University of Alabama
• Vinod Labhasetwar, Ph.D., Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
• Byron J. Lambert, Ph.D., MAR, Abbott
• Shulamit Levenberg, Ph.D., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Jenshan Lin, Ph.D., National Science Foundation
• Jonathan F. Lovell, Ph.D., University at Buffalo
• Minglin Ma, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Bangalore S. Manjunath, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
• Hui Mao, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine
• Clare McCabe, Ph.D., Heriot Watt University
• Megan L. McCain, Ph.D., University of Southern California
• Ernesta M. Meintjes, Ph.D., University of Cape Town
• Paul Mensah, Ph.D., Pfizer, Inc.
• Kathryn Miller-Jensen, Ph.D., Yale University
• James Moon, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Bijan Najafi, Ph.D., M.Sc., Baylor College of Medicine
• Eric Nauman, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
• Corey Neu, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
• Thao Nguyen, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• Victor Nizet, MD, UC San Diego School of Medicine
• William Noble, Ph.D., University of Washington
• Michael O’Connor, Ph.D., MSPM, MSTM, MBA, PE, Medtronic
• Burak Ozdoganlar, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
• Dipanjan Pan, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
• Ki Dong Park, Ph.D., Ajou University
• Julie Price, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
• Lei S. Qi, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Peng Qiu, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Ph.D., Florida International University
• Renata F. Ramos, Ph.D., Rice University
• Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D., University of Florida
• Jeffrey J. Saucerman, Ph.D., University of Virginia
• Rachael Schmedlen, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Avi Schroeder, Ph.D., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Dana D. Sellers, MS., Encore Health Resources
• Sameer B. Shah, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• Armon Sharei, Ph.D., SQZ Biotechnologies
• Ahmad Sheikh, Ph.D., AbbVie, Inc.
• Ariella Shikanov, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Chelsey S. Simmons, Ph.D., Bain and Company
• Srikanth Singamaneni, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
• Konstantin Sokolov, Ph.D., University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., Northeastern University
• Audra L. Stinchcomb, Ph.D., RPh, University of Maryland
• Susan N. Thomas, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Ph.D., Northwestern University
• Jessica Wagenseil, D.Sc., Washington University in St. Louis
• Lei Wang, Ph.D., Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
• Matthew J. Webber, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
• Hao Yan, Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Chen Yang, Ph.D., Boston University
• Jamey Young, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
• Jianhua Yu, Ph.D., City of Hope
• Nastaran Zahir, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute
• Karsten Zengler, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• Feng Zhao, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D., Yale University
• Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Jiangbing Zhou, Ph.D., Yale University
• Xiaobo Zhou, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Yubin Zhou, MD, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Donghui Zhu, Ph.D., Stony Brook University

ABOUT AIMBE

Established in 1991, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., representing the most accomplished individuals in the fields of medical and biological engineering. No other organization can bring together academia, industry, government, and scientific societies to form a highly influential community advancing medical and biological engineering. AIMBE’s mission is to provide leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering for the benefit of society.