President Barack Obama will present University of California, San Diego bioengineering Professor Shu Chien with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). The ceremony will be carried live by satellite feed and webcast on the White House website at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live.

Chien will be honored alongside six other Medal of Science winners and five recipients of the National Medal of Technology. The awards are the highest honors bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists, engineers and inventors. According to a White House announcement, President Obama will also use the occasion to announce new steps to speed the process of moving university research to the marketplace.

Pleased and humbled by the honor, Chien said it is an important symbol of the nation’s investment in scientific research and innovation.