AIMBE ELECTS 2026 FELLOWS

Induction Photos

April 13, 2026

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 168 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, 260 Fellows have been inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 135 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine, and 61 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.

2026 AIMBE Fellows:

• Steven D. Abramowitch, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
• Arvind Agarwal, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
• Carlos A. Aguilar, Ph.D., University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
• Joanna Aizenberg, Ph.D., Harvard University
• Andrew L. Alexander, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Kyle D. Allen, Ph.D., University of Florida
• Nasim Annabi, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• Kiana Aran, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• Michelle Arkin, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
• Kamran Avanaki, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago
• Bill Baker, Ph.D., University of South Florida
• Aaron Batista, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
• Achintya K. Bhowmik, Ph.D., Starkey Hearing Technologies
• Nidhi Bhutani, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Lance Black, MD, MBID, Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine
• Mark Blenner, Ph.D., University of Delaware
• Paolo Bonato, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
• Yevgeny Brudno, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Siddappa N. Byrareddy, Ph.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Peter Caravan, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
• Shelton D. Caruthers, Ph.D., Canon Medical Systems
• Cesar Castro, MD, M.MSc., Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
• R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSc, MBA, University of Illinois Chicago
• Anuj Chauhan, Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines
• Chin-Tu Chen, Ph.D., The University of Chicago
• Hong Chen, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
• Jun Chen, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• Rachel C. Childers, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Daniel T. Chiu, Ph.D., University of Washington
• Laisheng Chou, DMD, Ph.D., Boston University
• Mark S. Cohen, MD, FACS, FSSO, MAMSE, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Phillip Compeau, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
• David W. Craig, Ph.D., Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope
• Canan Dagdeviren, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jeremy Dahl, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Michael Daniele, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• Paolo Decuzzi, Ph.D., Italian Institute of Technology
• Barbara Di Eugenio, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago
• Karen Drexler, MBA, Resmed
• Jean S. Epps, Ph.D., Terumo Medical Corporation
• Xudong Fan, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Matthew B. Fisher, Ph.D., UNC at Chapel Hill and NC State University
• Matthew B. Francis, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• Ronit Freeman, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Benjamin J. Fregly, Ph.D., Rice University
• Jeremiah J. Gassensmith, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas
• Francis S. Gayzik, Ph.D., Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Scott R. Gibson, Amgen
• Craig J. Goergen, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Laurie R. Goodrich, DVM, Ph.D., Colorado State University
• Viktor Gruev, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Giovanna Guidoboni, Ph.D., University of Maine
• Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
• Jin-Oh Hahn, Ph.D., University of Maryland
• Dorit Hanein, Ph.D., HDR, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Nicole N. Hashemi, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Mei He, Ph.D., University of Florida
• Jennifer Heemstra, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
• Stephanie Hicks, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• Guosong Hong, Ph.D., Stanford University
• Ehsan Hoque, Ph.D., University of Rochester
• Quanyin Hu, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• David Huang, MD, Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University
• Pearl S. Huang, Ph.D., Dunad Therapeutics
• Shannon K. Hughes, Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Thomas J. Hughes, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• Joshua D. Hutcheson, Ph.D., Florida International University
• Joshua Jacobs, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Abhishek Jain, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Jana Kainerstorfer, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
• Raghu Kalluri, MD, Ph.D., The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Aya Kamaya, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Alexey Kamenskiy, Ph.D., University of Nebraska Omaha
• Raghuraman Kannan, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Dinesh R. Katti, Ph.D., North Dakota State University
• Salman Khetani, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago
• Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Michael S. Koeris, Ph.D., Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Ashish Kulkarni, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Luming Li, Ph.D., Tsinghua University
• Song Li, MD, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
• Yanfen Li, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Ethan Lippmann, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• Sarah H. Lisanby, MD, DLFAPA, Arizona State University
• Julie C. Liu, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Wei Liu, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Arizona
• Yang Liu, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Yunlong Liu, Ph.D., Indiana University
• Qi Long, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
• Le Lu, Ph.D., Ant Research Institute, Ant Group
• Qin Ma, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Sundararajan V. Madihally, Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
• Christine A. Miller, MBA,
• Adrienne R. Minerick, Ph.D., Michigan Technological University
• Jeetain Mittal, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Pedram Mohseni, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
• Willem Mulder, Ph.D., Eindhoven University of Technology
• David Neivandt, BSc. (Hons), Ph.D., University of Maine
• Bradley Nelson, Ph.D., ETH Zurich
• Carl Nelson, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Michael Oelze, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Madeleine Oudin, Ph.D., Tufts University
• Mark Palmeri, MD, Ph.D., Duke University
• Chethan Pandarinath, Ph.D., Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ioannis Paschalidis, Ph.D., Boston University
• Thomas Penzel, Ph.D., Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin
• Brian F. Pfleger, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Julie Phillippi, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
• Raj K. Prabhu, Ph.D., NASA Johnson Space Center
• Shreya A. Raghavan, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• Anand Ramamurthi, Ph.D., FAHA, Lehigh University
• Amanda Randles, Ph.D., Duke University
• D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, DM, D.Sc., AIG Hospitals
• Fan Ren, Ph.D., University of Florida
• Darren Roblyer, Ph.D., Boston University
• Ellen Roche, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sarah I. Rooney, Ph.D., University of Delaware
• Gail Rosen, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Vincent Rotello, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Kaitlyn Sadtler, Ph.D., Sc.D. h.c., National Institutes of Health
• Gaurav Sahay, Ph.D., Oregon State University
• Shantanu Sarkar, Ph.D., Medtronic
• Bruno Sarmento, Ph.D., Institute of Research and Innovation in Health – University of Porto
• Malisa Sarntinoranont, Ph.D., University of Florida
• Keyue Shen, Ph.D., University of Southern California
• Sergey Shevkoplyas, Ph.D., University of Houston
• Annabelle Singer, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Anup K. Singh, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Jamie Spangler, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
• John E. Speich, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
• Shannon Stott, Ph.D., Boston University
• Mark P. Styczynski, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
• Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Kai Tan, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Ben Zhong Tang, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• Xiangyang Tang, Ph.D., DABR, Emory University School of Medicine
• Kouhyar Tavakolian, Ph.D., MBA, University of North Dakota
• Savas Tay, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Alyssa C. Taylor, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• Lara A. Thompson, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Amit K. Tiwari, Ph.D., DABT, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• Todd J. Treangen, Ph.D., Rice University
• Julie Trudel, Ph.D., Medtronic
• Daniel W. van der Weide, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Aristidis Veves, MD, MSc, DSc, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Joseph M. Wallace, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Qianben Wang, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical College
• Yulun Wang, Ph.D., Sovato Health
• Yunbing Wang, Ph.D., Sichuan University
• Ian Wheeldon, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
• David K. Wood, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Haoxing Xu, Ph.D., Zhejiang University
• Wenyao Xu, Ph.D., University at Buffalo
• X. Nancy Xu, Ph.D., Old Dominion University
• Pingkun Yan, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Hu Yang, Ph.D., Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin
• Kelvin Yeung, Ph.D., The University of Hong Kong
• Cunjiang Yu, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Guoqiang Yu, Ph.D., University of Kentucky
• Ge Zhang, MD, Ph.D., The University of Akron
• Jinghui Zhang, Ph.D., St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Rui Zhang, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• Zhong-Yin Zhang, Ph.D., Purdue University
• Jing Zhao, Ph.D., Medtronic
• Yanli Zhao, Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University
• Dr. Jie Zheng, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio
• Hongtu Zhu, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.