AIMBE ELECTS 2025 FELLOWS

Induction Photos

March 31, 2025

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 163 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 medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top two percent of engineers in these fields. 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 4 Nobel Prize laureates and 27 Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation awardees. Additionally, 233 Fellows have been inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 120 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine, and 51 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.

2025 AIMBE Fellows:

• • Scott T. Acton, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Nima Aghaeepour, Ph.D., Stanford University
  • Emil Alexov, Ph.D, Clemson University
  • Barbara A. Anderson, Ph.D., AVITA Medical
  • Ahmad Bahai, Ph.D., Texas Instruments
  • Gabor Balazsi, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
  • Ipsita Banerjee, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
  • Zhenan Bao, Ph.D., Stanford University
  • Shannon Barker, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Margarida M. Barroso, Ph.D., Albany Medical College
  • Francois Berthiaume, Ph.D., Rutgers University
  • Resham Bhattacharya, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
  • Jeffrey Bischoff, Ph.D., Zimmer Biomet
  • Mark Borden, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
  • Ilana Brito, Ph.D., Cornell University
  • Brian Brown, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Caroline G. L. Cao, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Hsueh-Chia Chang, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
  • Steven Chase, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ken Chen, Ph.D., The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Shu-Ching Chen, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • Zhong Chen, Ph.D., Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
  • Bradley T. Christian, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Eunji P. Chung, Ph.D., University of Southern California
  • Gari D. Clifford, DPhil, MSc, MA, FIEEE, Emory University
  • Christopher H. Contag, Ph.D., Michigan State University
  • Diane J. Cook, Ph.D., Washington State University
  • David Cormode, Dphil, University of Pennsylvania
  • John O. Dabiri, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
  • Tal Danino, Ph.D., Columbia University
  • Iwijn De Vlaminck, Ph.D., Cornell University
  • Joseph T. Delaney, Jr., Ph.D., Boston Scientific Corporation
  • Eric D. Diebold, Ph.D., Becton, Dickinson and Co.
  • Ender A. Finol, Ph.D., The University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Peer Fischer, Ph.D., Heidelberg University
  • Polly Fordyce, Ph.D., Stanford University
  • Michael Francis, Ph.D., Asante Bio and University of South Florida
  • Wei Gao, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
  • Sanchayita Ghose, Ph.D., Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Anuradha Godavarty, Ph.D., Florida International University
  • Chetan T. Goudar, Ph.D., PE, Amgen, Inc.
  • Karl Grosh, Ph.D., University of Michigan
  • Teja Guda, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Sheila K. Gujrathi, MD, Prana Therapies
  • Sundaram Gunasekaran, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Leng Han, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Laura M. Heiser, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University
  • Lingzhi Hu, Ph.D., United Imaging
  • Susie Huang, MD, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Thomas Hund, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
  • Grace M. Hwang, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
  • Daniel A. Jacobson, Ph.D., Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Xun Jia, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Marie A. Johnson, Ph.D., Loon Medical, LLC
  • Abraham Joy, Ph.D., Northeastern University
  • Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Ronald June, Ph.D., Montana State University
  • Murat Kalayoglu, MD, Ph.D., Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Ravi Kapur, BS, MS, Ph.D., AutoIVF, Inc.
  • Maria Kavallaris, Ph.D., Children’s Cancer Institute
  • Filippos Kesisoglou, Ph.D., Merck and Co.
  • Chulhong Kim, Ph.D., Pohang University of Science and Technology
  • Dae-Hyeong Kim, Ph.D., Seoul National University
  • Christine E. King, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
  • Sean S. Kohles, Ph.D., Kohles Bioengineering Corp
  • Deling Kong, Ph.D., Nankai University
  • Melissa Krebs, Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines
  • Twan Lammers, Ph.D., DSc, RWTH Aachen University Clinic
  • Melinda Larsen, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
  • Gene Lay, DVM, BioLegend
  • Joseph M. Le Doux, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
  • James Leahy, Ph.D., University of South Florida
  • Chi Hwan Lee, Ph.D., Purdue University
  • Joshua N. Leonard, Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Eric C. Leuthardt, MD, MBA, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
  • Bin Li, Ph.D., Soochow University
  • Changzhi Li, Ph.D., Texas Tech University
  • Shuo Li, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
  • Tingbo Liang, MD, Ph.D., The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
  • Jun Lin, Ph.D., Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Wenbin Lin, Ph.D., The University of Chicago
  • Hong Liu, Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jonathan T.C. Liu, Ph.D., University of Washington
  • Jiebo Luo, Ph.D., University of Rochester
  • Yuan Luo, Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Robi D. Mitra, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
  • Rajat Mittal, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  • Madan Babu Mohan, Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Walter L. Murfee, Ph.D., University of Florida
  • Sriram Muthukumar, Ph.D., EnLiSense LLC
  • Kristin M. Myers, Ph.D., Columbia University
  • Arvind Natarajan, Ph.D., MBA, Iovance Biotherapeutics
  • Ara Nazarian, Dr. Sc., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
  • Zoran Nenadic, D.Sc., University of California, Irvine
  • Nandkishor K. Nere, Ph.D., MBA, AbbVie
  • Sharlene D. Newman, Ph.D., The University of Alabama
  • Tanya M. Nocera, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
  • Syam Nukavarapu, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
  • Leo E. Otterbein, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
  • Jeffrey S. Palmer, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
  • Sergiu P. Pasca, MD, Stanford University
  • Mihaela Pertea, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  • Joshua Pfefer, Ph.D., US Food and Drug Administration
  • Teresa M. Przytycka, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine, NIH
  • Kanyi Pu, Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University
  • Xiaogang Qu, Ph.D., Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, Mayo Clinic Florida
  • Kayvan Rahimi-Keshari, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Ph.D., Florida State University
  • Jayachandra B. Ramapuram, Ph.D., Auburn University, Harrison College of Pharmacy
  • Jeremy Rawlinson, Ph.D., Medtronic
  • Mark Rentschler, Ph.D., University of Colorado
  • Diego Rey, Ph.D., Endpoint Health
  • Jonathan Rivnay, Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Christopher P. Roche, MSE, MBA, Exactech, Inc.
  • Gustavo Rohde, Ph.D., University of Virginia
  • Christopher Rozell, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Gregory Russotti, Ph.D., Century Therapeutics
  • Edward A. Sander, Ph.D., University of Iowa
  • Sridevi Sarma, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
  • Shiladitya Sengupta, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School- Mass General Brigham
  • Robin Shandas, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver
  • Maryam M. Shanechi, Ph.D., University of Southern California
  • Hui Shen, Ph.D., Van Andel Institute
  • Yen-Yu I. Shih, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Mona Singh, Ph.D., Princeton University
  • Sameer Sonkusale, Ph.D., Tufts University
  • Steven Stice, Ph.D., University of Georgia
  • Aaron Streets, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
  • Wei Tao, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
  • Marc B. Taub, Ph.D., Abbott
  • Amy Throckmorton, Ph.D., Drexel University
  • Tomasz Tkaczyk, Ph.D., Rice University
  • Duygu Tosun-Turgut, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
  • Jaideep Vaidya, Ph.D., Rutgers University
  • Daniela Valdez-Jasso, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
  • Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Ph.D., Cornell University
  • Omid Veiseh, Ph.D., Rice University
  • Jeffrey H. Vogel, Ph.D., Medtronic
  • Danny JJ. Wang, Ph.D., MSCE, University of Southern California
  • Jian’an Wang, MD, Ph.D., The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine
  • Wei Wang, Ph.D., University of Arizona
  • Kenneth Washington, Ph.D., Medtronic
  • David A. Weitz, Ph.D., Harvard University
  • Ann H. West, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
  • Oliver Wieben, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Tak Sing Wong, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
  • Wilson Wong, Ph.D., Boston University
  • Yubing Xie, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY
  • Yi Xing, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Wassana Yantasee, Ph.D., MBA, Oregon Health and Science University
  • Junjie Yao, Ph.D., Duke University
  • Siavash Yazdanfar, Ph.D., Corning, Inc.
  • Hengyong Yu, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Feng Yue, Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • Hongbo Zeng, Ph.D., University of Alberta
  • Jiajie Zhang, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Yingchun Zhang, Ph.D., University of Miami
  • Yong Zhang, Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong
  • Xuanhe Zhao, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Degui Zhi, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Hala Zreiqat, Ph.D., University of Sydney

ABOUT AIMBE

Established in 1991, AIMBE is the authoritative voice and advocate for the value of medical and biological engineering to society. AIMBE’s mission is to recognize excellence, advance public understanding, and accelerate medical and biological innovation. No other organization brings together academic, industry, government, and scientific societies to form a highly influential community advancing medical and biological engineering. AIMBE’s mission drives advocacy initiatives into action on Capitol Hill and beyond.