Fellowbook News
AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.
Rakesh Jain | Via Mass General Brigham |
October 28, 2026
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. Despite decades of research, the disease remains difficult to treat, with only about 6% of adults age 40 and older surviving five years after diagnosis. Part of the challenge is that glioblastoma seems to have a workaround for nearly every treatment. The brain's protective [...]
Song Li | Via UCLA |
October 24, 2026
Our cells hold about two meters of DNA, folded and compacted to fit inside a nucleus far narrower than a strand of human hair. That packing is essential for life, but it creates a problem for scientists. Some of the genes that control a cell’s identity are buried so deep in tightly packed DNA that [...]
Martin Fussenegger | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News |
October 24, 2026
Researchers at ETH Zürich, the University of Lyon, and the University of Basel have developed an implantable, wirelessly powered electronic device, known as ECHO, (electrocatalytic closed-loop health optimization) that could offer a drug-free approach to managing obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). These two interlinked metabolic disorders often coexist—as “diabesity”—affecting billions of people worldwide. The [...]
Wolfgang Fink | Via Ring Central |
October 20, 2026
Brief: Prof. Wolfgang Fink presented at the Third Annual Medical & Healthcare Robotics Digital Summit, September 16, 2026, produced by Medical Design Briefs and SAE International/SAE Media Group: a fully online event that once again brings together leading experts, innovators, and researchers from the fields of medical robotics, healthcare technology, and medical device engineering to [...]
Younan Xia | Via Johns Hopkins University |
October 20, 2026
Younan Xia elected to network of leading scientific and medical professionals worldwide Younan Xia, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He was recognized for “the invention and rational development of myriad nanomaterials for biomedical applications, as exemplified by the successful translation of electrospun nanofibers, gold nanocages, [...]
Ashutosh Chilkoti | Via Duke University |
October 20, 2026
Ashutosh Chilkoti, the Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Chilkoti was [...]
Fabrisia Ambrosio | Via Mass General Brigham |
October 20, 2026
Mass General Brigham announced the election of five of its distinguished faculty members to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for 2026, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Their election recognizes outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service, as well as significant contributions to medical science, health care and [...]
Paul Harris | Via Vanderbilt Health |
October 19, 2026
Paul Harris, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering and Biostatistics, is among 100 newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the organization announced Oct. 19. Formerly called the Institute of Medicine, NAM was established in 1970 as the health arm of the national academies. Both an honorific membership organization and an [...]
Matthew Tirrell | Via University of Chicago |
October 19, 2026
Matthew Tirrell, D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for pioneering the design and synthesis of self-assembling polymers to deliver peptide, protein, and nucleotide drugs in cardiovascular disease, cancer, infection, and vaccination. Election to [...]
Sergiu Pasca | Via Stanford University |
October 19, 2026
The National Academy of Medicine has elected Sergiu Pasca, MD, the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor II of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, to its membership — one of the highest honors in medicine. Pasca, who is also the Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program, was chosen “for seminal contributions to [...]
Jennifer Lewis | Via Harvard University |
October 19, 2026
Jennifer Lewis, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. The Academy has recognized her work in 3D bioprinting of [...]
Steven Abrams | Via UT Austin Dell Medical School |
October 19, 2026
Abrams joins the eminent society of scientists and physicians providing evidence-based leadership in medicine. Steven A. Abrams, M.D., professor in Dell Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his contributions in infant and micronutrient nutrition. Membership in the National Academy of Medicine is considered one of the [...]
Stephanie Bryant | Via Colorado State University |
October 15, 2026
When Dr. Laurie Goodrich first heard that a newly formed federal research agency was looking to fund projects that could reverse the effects of osteoarthritis with a single treatment, she thought it sounded like an ambitious goal. It would be amazing if we could achieve that, thought Goodrich, an equine surgeon and director of Colorado [...]
Rory Cooper | Via American Health Discovery |
October 14, 2026
Cooper was a young Army sergeant stationed in Germany in 1980 when a bicycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Wheelchair technology at the time was primitive. Chairs were heavy, unreliable, and built with no particular urgency to work well. Upon his return to the United States, he enrolled at California Polytechnic State [...]
Azad Madni | Via USC Viterbi |
October 12, 2026
Established in 1902, the medal honors pioneering leaders whose work has fundamentally advanced human progress. Madni joins a distinguished group of recipients that includes Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Claude Shannon, Gordon Moore, Andrew Viterbi and Elon Musk. Madni, executive director of USC’s Systems Architecting and Engineering Program, was recognized for pioneering contributions to transdisciplinary [...]
Karl Deisseroth | Via Nobel Foundation |
October 7, 2026
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 is awarded for optogenetics — a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain. Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Karl Deisseroth transformed the protein into a light-controlled [...]
Karl Deisseroth | Via stanforddaily |
October 6, 2026
In 1992, Karl Deisseroth, Ph.D. ’98, M.D. ’00, arrived at Stanford to begin his MD-PhD training. By 2005, in a lab of his own on campus, he showed that a protein borrowed from pond algae and a flash of blue light could make cultured rat neurons fire on command. On Monday, that work earned the [...]
Stelios Andreadis | Via University at Buffalo |
September 30, 2026
Extreme dry mouth, caused by radiation for cancer treatment and autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren’s disease, radically affects quality of life for sufferers. It can hamper speaking, swallowing and eating, and for years has seemed an intractable problem. Attempts to stimulate the salivary glands to produce more saliva or to create artificial saliva have been [...]
Liangfang Zhang | Via MacArthur Foundation |
September 29, 2026
Liangfang Zhang is a chemical engineer and bioengineer creating novel nanotechnologies for targeted drug delivery, medical countermeasures such as vaccines and antibacterial and antiviral drugs, and other biomedical applications. Zhang develops cell membrane coated nanoparticles that can achieve unprecedented levels of interaction with biological systems like the human body. His efforts to translate his lab [...]
Sergiu Pasca | Via Stanford Medicine |
September 16, 2026
Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside of the human brain — and outside of laboratory glassware. In a study published online Sept. 16 in Nature, the researchers succeeded in transplanting self-organizing bits of laboratory-grown human brain tissue called cortical organoids into mice specially bioengineered and bred [...]
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