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title: Announcing the 2024 BMES Award Winners
description: Celebrating the 2024 BMES Award winners for their outstanding contributions to biomedical engineering.
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# [Announcing the 2024 BMES Award Winners](https://www.bmes.org/news/announcing-the-2024-bmes-award-winners)

 Written by [BMES](https://www.bmes.org/news/author/bmes) | 09/20/2024

Each year, the [BMES Awards program](https://www.bmes.org/awards) recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions of those in the field of biomedical engineering. Each winner will give a lecture at the [2024 BMES Annual Meeting](https://www.bmes.org/bmes2024) in Baltimore.

###### **Congratulations to this year's winners!**

**2024 Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award  
Kyriacos Athanasiou, PhD**

UCI Samueli School of Engineering  
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering  
*UCI Samueli School of Engineering*

**  
“Translation of Biomedical Engineering Advances”  
Thursday, October 24 at 11:00 a.m.**

[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_BMES_Annual_Meeting/Pritzker_-_Athanasiou_Bio.docx)

**BMES Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering Award **  
**Christine E. Schmidt**

J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering  
*The University of Florida*

**"Engineering Materials for Clinical Nerve Repair, and Other Applications Along the Way"**  
Friday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m.

[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_Awards/2024_Athanasiou_winner_Abstract_and_Biosketch-69b2f363.docx)

**Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Award**  
**Ke Cheng**  
Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering   
*Columbia University*

**"Minimally invasive delivery of therapeutics to the heart with biomaterials and devices"**  
Friday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m.

[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_Awards/2024_Coulter_winner_Abstract_and_Biosketch-9379b5e7.docx)

**2024 Diversity Lecture Award**  
**LatinXinBME**

**Brian Aguado**  
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Founder of LatinXinBME  
*UC of San Diego*

*[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_Awards/2024_Diversity_winner_Abstract_and_Biosketch-9116996a.docx)*

**Ana Maria Porras**  
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor of LatinXinBME  
*University of Florida *

**"Building a Virtual Community to Support and Celebrate the Success of Latinx Biomedical Engineers"**  
Thursday, October 24 at 5:15 p.m.

[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_Awards/2024_Diversity_winner_Abstract_and_Biosketch-9116996a.docx)

 

**2024 Mid-Career Award**  
**Kelly Stevens  
**Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology  
*University of Washington*

**“Engineering Human Organoids, Organs, and Societies”  
**Saturday, October 26 at 11:00 a.m.

[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_BMES_Annual_Meeting/Mid-Career_-_Stevens_Bio.docx)

 

**Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award  
Marian Hettiaratchi**

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering  
Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact  
*University of Oregon*

**"Precision protein delivery: Engineering protein-material affinity interactions for tissue repair"**  
Saturday, October 26 at 11:00 a.m.

[Abstract and Bio](https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/bmes/2024_Awards/2024_Rita_Schaffer_winner_Abstract_and_Biosketch-f8bcbfea.docx)

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