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Announcing the 2022 Award Winners and Class of Fellows

Congratulations

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) recognizes individuals for their accomplishments, significant contributions and service to the Society and the field of biomedical engineering.

Come see these award winners at the 2022 BMES Annual Meeting in San Antonio from October 12 - 15, 2022!

Cato_Laurencin

2022 BMES Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award Winner
Saturday, October 15 at 10:30 a.m.
Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD
University of Connecticut
 

Ronke_Olabisi

2022 BMES Diversity Lecture Award
(Sponsored by the Whitaker International Program)
Thursday, October 13 at 10:30 a.m.
Ronke Olabisi, PhD
University of California, Irvine
 

Evan_Scott

2022 BMES Mid-Career Award
Thursday, October 13 at 5:00 p.m.
Evan Scott, PhD
Northwestern University
 

Erika_Moore_resized

2022 BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
Thursday, October 13 at 5:00 p.m.
Erika Moore, PhD
University of Florida

Gabriele_Niederauer

2022 Coulter HC Innovation Award
Friday, October 14 at 4:30 p.m.
Gabriele Niederauer, PhD
Bluegrass Vascular

Samuel_Achilefu

2022 NIBIB Lecture Award
Friday, October 14 at 10:30 a.m.
Samuel Achilefu, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center

2022 BMES Class of Fellows

Thursday, October 13 at 5:00 p.m.

Alisa Clyne, PhD
Alyman El-Baz, PhD
Stacey Finley, PhD
Melissa Grunlan, PhD

Juergen Hahn, PhD
Mariah Hahn, PhD
Sean Kohles, PhD
Pamela Kreeger, PhD
Jan Lammerding, PhD
Tanmay Lele, PhD
Chuanbin Mao, PhD
James Moon, PhD
Emmanuel Opara, PhD
Kevin Otto, PhD
Shalini Prasad, PhD
Ravi Radhakrishnan, PhD
Milica Radisic, PhD
Raj Rao, PhD
Anita Singh, PhD
Nicole Steinmetz, PhD
Maribel Vazquez, PhD
Yingxiao Wang, PhD


2022 Burroughs Wellcome Young Investigator Award Winners

Alireza Sohrabi
Dar Weiss
Rui Li
Megan Madonna
Siavash Ahrar
Ningqiang Gong
Kalpana Mandal
Novalia Pishesha
Katherine Young
Settimio Pacelli
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