AIMBE ELECTS 2024 FELLOWS

March 25, 2024

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 152 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 medical research, practice, or education and for “pioneering 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 three Nobel Prize laureates. Additionally, 22 Fellows having received the Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation, and several have been inducted into the National Academies: 214 in the National Academy of Engineering, 117 in the National Academy of Medicine, and 48 in the National Academy of Sciences.

2024 AIMBE Fellows:

• Lilia A. Abron, Ph.D., PE, BCEE, PEER Consultants, PC
• Nehal I. Abu-Lail, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio
• Derek Adams, Ph.D., Stellular Bio
• Rigoberto Advincula, Ph.D., Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Ph.D., Rice University
• Christopher A. Alabi, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Bree Aldridge, Ph.D., Tufts University
• Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• Timothy E. Allen, Ph.D., University of Virginia
• Mansoor M. Amiji, Ph.D., Northeastern University
• Eric A. Appel, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Arezoo Ardekani, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Natalie Artzi, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Pranesh B. Aswath, Ph.D., Texas State University
• Scott E. Baker, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Saeed D. Barbat, Ph.D., Ford Motor Company
• Abdul Basit, Ph.D., University College London
• Yuri Bazilevs, Ph.D., Brown University
• Tammie L.S. Benzinger, MD, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Narayan Bhattarai, Ph.D., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr.-Ing., University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Cathy Bodine, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver
• Sangeeta S. Chavan, Ph.D., Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
• Terrence Chen, Ph.D., United Imaging Intelligence America
• Xiaodong Chen, Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University
• Jing Cheng, Ph.D., Tsinghua University
• Zhen Cheng, Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Bernard Choi, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
• Michael J. Cima, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mete Civelek, Ph.D., University of Virginia
• Kelly Coleman, Ph.D., Medtronic
• Grace Colon, Ph.D., Bloom Science
• Kathleen E. Cullen, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• Joseph P. Culver, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• James Dahlman, Ph.D., Emory University
• Benoit M. Dawant, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• Hong-Wen Deng, Ph.D., Tulane University
• Jack Dennerlein, Ph.D., Boston University
• Patrick Drew, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
• Eno E. Ebong, Ph.D., Northeastern University
• Elliot L. Elson, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Donglei Fan, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• Andrew Feinberg, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University
• Petra Fromme, Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Yun Fu, Ph.D., Northeastern University
• Daniel Gallego-Perez, Ph.D., Ohio State University
• Jinming Gao, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Yulin Ge, MD, New York University
• Andrew J. Geall, Ph.D., Replicate Bioscience
• Qiyong Gong, MD, Ph.D., West China Hospital of Sichuan University
• Pulkit Grover, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
• Vikas Gulani, MD, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Eileen Haase, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• Lin Han, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Z. Leah Harris, MD, University of Texas at Austin
• Jason Heikenfeld, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
• Brian Helmke, Ph.D., University of Virginia
• Jessica P. Houston, Ph.D., New Mexico State University
• Ayanna Howard, Ph.D., Ohio State University
• Ngan F. Huang, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Kullervo Hynynen, Ph.D., Sunnybrook Research Institute
• Tamer S. Ibrahim, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
• Khan Iftekharuddin, Ph.D., Old Dominion University
• Robert Jeraj, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dayong Jin, Ph.D., University of Technology Sydney
• Tibor Juhasz, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
• Derek Kamper, Ph.D., UNC at Chapel Hill and NC State University
• Deok-Ho Kim, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• Min Jun Kim, Ph.D., Southern Methodist University
• Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• April Kloxin, Ph.D., University of Delaware
• Laurel Kuxhaus, Ph.D., Clarkson University
• Gabriel A. Kwong, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
• Angela Laird, Ph.D., Florida International University
• Bennett A. Landman, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• Su-In Lee, Ph.D., University of Washington
• Tanmay P. Lele, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Jun Li, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Yan Li, Ph.D., Florida State University
• Han Liang, Ph.D., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Jun Liao, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
• Chien-Chi Lin, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Lih Y. Lin, Ph.D., University of Washington
• Elizabeth A. Lipke, Ph.D., Auburn University
• Bin Liu, Ph.D., National University of Singapore
• Huinan H. Liu, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
• Xiaogang Liu, Ph.D., National University of Singapore
• Xiaohua Liu, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Yaling Liu, Ph.D., Lehigh University
• Nanshu Lu, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• Azad M. Madni, Ph.D., University of Southern California
• Michael Marletta, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• T. Douglas Mast, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
• Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
• Jennifer M. Munson, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
• Michael Murrell, Ph.D., Yale University
• Luay Nakhleh, Ph.D., Rice University
• Keith Neeves, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver
• Eddie Yin-Kwee Ng, Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University
• Juliane Nguyen, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Mehdi Nikkhah, Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Jacquin C. Niles, MD, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nozomi Nishimura, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Ruth Ochia, Ph.D., Temple University
• Rahmi Oklu, MD, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic in Arizona
• Omer Oralkan, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• Julio M. Ottino, Ph.D., Northwestern University
• Michelle L. Oyen, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
• Savannah C. Partridge, Ph.D., University of Washington
• Valentin A. Pavlov, Ph.D., The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
• Bryan J. Pfister, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Mariagrazia Pizza, Ph.D., Imperial College London
• Thomas Rando, MD, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• Robert L. Rennaker, II, Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas
• Katharina Ribbeck, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jorge Riera Diaz, Ph.D., Florida International University
• Janet Roveda, Ph.D., University of Arizona
• Jonathan N. Sachs, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Shilpa Sant, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
• Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
• Katherine R. Saul, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• Rebecca Schulman, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• Jan P. Seuntjens, Ph.D., Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
• Anita Shukla, Ph.D., Brown University
• Earl Slee, MSEE, MBA, Medtronic (retired)
• Shay Soker, MSc, Ph.D., Wake Forest School of Medicine
• Kara L. Spiller, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Alexander H. Stegh, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Cara E. Stepp, Ph.D., Boston University
• Bozhi Tian, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Carlo G. Traverso, MB, BChir, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Karen L. Troy, Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Vladimir N. Uversky, Ph.D., D.Sc., FRSB, FRSC, University of South Florida
• Xiu-feng H. Wan, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Aijun Wang, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Harris H. Wang, Ph.D., Columbia University
• Lixiao Wang, Ph.D., Neurotronic Inc
• Ping Wang, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Ting Wang, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Taylor H. Ware, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Guowei Wei, Ph.D., Michigan State University
• Blake S. Wilson, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Eng., Dr.med.hc, Duke University
• John T. Wilson, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• Karin Wuertz-Kozak, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology
• Jingwei Xie, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Sheng Xu, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• Lan Yang, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
• Lily Yang, MD, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine
• Fan Zhang, Ph.D., Fudan University
• Y. Shrike Zhang, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Pinar Zorlutuna, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
• Min Zou, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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.