Tejal Desai, Ph.D.
President 2020 – 2022
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor of Engineering
Brown University
For her seminal contributions to for innovative drug delivery technology.
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor of Engineering
Brown University
For her seminal contributions to for innovative drug delivery technology.
Pruitt Family Professor
University of Florida
For development of synthetic biomaterials that stimulate the regeneration of damaged peripheral and spinal nerves and successful clinical application.
Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and President
Olin College of Engineering
For significant contributions in developing in vitro microscopy-based flow adhesion assays to characterize sickle cell adhesion mechanisms.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Emory University
For outstanding contributions to the development of methods for nerve regeneration and to the understanding of tissue-biomaterials interactions.
Lead Director
Immucor, Inc.
Chairman & CEO, Retired
Medtronic, Inc.
For technical and executive leadership of medical device developments that have improved human health and advanced cardiovascular device engineering.
Paul S. and Allene T. Russell Professor
The University of Chicago
For seminal contributions to the understanding and treatment of electrical burn injuries and development of practical electrical safety measures.
Dean, College of Engineering
Boston University
For novel measurement and signal processing methods providing new insights on structural airways and tissue condition in healthy and diseased lungs.
Executive Director Of Science and Technology
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
For distinguished achievement in deepening understanding of capillary rheology and microvascular angiogenesis and arcade arteriolar growth.
Department Chair & Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Memphis
For studies and model development of the directed rheological aspects of lateral transport of platelet-sized particles in blood flows.
Associate Director, University of California, San Diego
The William J. VonLiebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement
For sustained leadership in planning and implementing the nations cardiovascular devices and technology research and clinical evaluation programs.
Provost (retired)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
For contributions to the understanding of corrosion effects in biomedical implants.
1952 – 2018
Professor
Boston University
For contributions to the quantitative understanding of auditory neurons in the cochlear nucleus and to biomedical engineering education.
Orrin Henry Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Vanderbilt University
For outstanding contribution of transport phenomena to the lung microcirculation, and development of academic programs in biomedical engineering.
Dean Emeritus and Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
For significant contributions in understanding the role of fluid dynamics in arterial disease.
Vice President, Biomaterials Research (Retired); University Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering; Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering
Genzyme Corporation
For outstanding contributions to the development and application of new biomedical polymers.
Joint Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering; Michael L. & Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization
University of Washington
For developing an enhanced understanding of surfaces and their importance to biomaterials science.
Director, Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering
University of California, San Diego
For his opening of a new horizon for research on blood rheology, cell mechanics, and circulatory transport.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
For developing novel engineering means leading to critical new physiological and pathophysiological understanding of the pulmonary circulation.
Distinguished Professor for Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Biophysics and Institute for Health & Society
Medical College of Wisconsin
For authorship in medical physics and biomedical engineering.
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
For contributions as an outstanding educator, administrator, and researcher in the application of biorheological and biochemical methods in blood and vascular biology.
Vice President for Research
University of Florida
For contributions as an outstanding educator, administrator, and researcher in the application of biorheological and biochemical methods in blood and vascular biology.
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston
For contributions to the understanding of membrane transport and molecular recognition to make practical separation devices and bio-analytical sensors.
1927-1997
Professor of Bioengineering
Brown University
For pioneering the field of artificial organs and integrating engineering science with clinical medicine.
1937-2020
Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
For biomedical engineering leadership through major contributions to the understanding of dynamics of blood flow and blood vessels in health and disease.