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title: Announcing the 2025 BMES Award Winners
description: Celebrating the 2025 BMES Award winners for their outstanding contributions to biomedical engineering.
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# [Announcing the 2025 BMES Award Winners](https://www.bmes.org/news/announcing-the-2025-bmes-award-winners)

 Written by [BMES](https://www.bmes.org/news/author/bmes) | 09/09/2025

Each year, the Each year, BMES recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions of those in the field of biomedical engineering. Each winner will give a lecture at the BMES 2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, October 8 - 12.   
We are honored to announce the recipients of these prestigious awards for 2025 along with the names of their lectures and when they will be presented.

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

****2025 Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award  
Linda Griffith, PhD

Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering  
Director of  the Center for Gynepathology Research  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, October 9 at 11:00AM

<https://www.bmes.org/awards>

BMES Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering Award   
Buddy Ratner, PhD

Michael L. and Myrna Darland Endowed Chair in Technology Commercialization Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering  
University of Washington

Friday, October 10 at 1:00PM

****Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Award  
Gargi Maheshwari, PhD

Vice President Biologics Science & Technology  
Merck

Friday, October 10 at 1:00PM

**Social ****Impact Lecture Award**  
**Princess Imoukhuede, PhD**

Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair of Bioengineering  
Professor of Bioengineering  
University of Washington

Thursday, October 9 at 5:15PM  
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**Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award  
Meenal Datta, PhD**

Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering  
University of Notre Dame

Saturday, October 11 at 11:00AM

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**Mid-Career Award**  
**Stacey Finley, PhD**

Nicole A. and Thuan Q. Pham Professor, Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology,  
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Director, Center for Computational Modeling of Cancer  
*University of Southern California*

Saturday, October 11 at 11:00AM

 

 

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