WASHINGTON, D.C.—The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Hal Alper, Ph.D., Paul D. & Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professor Frank A. Liddell, Jr. Centennial Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Alper was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for pioneering new approaches that merge synthetic biology, protein engineering, and metabolic engineering to achieve novel phenotypes in eukaryotic cells.