Fellows’ Accomplishments​

Fellows' Accomplishments

AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers. They include the most accomplished medical and biological engineers in academia, industry, education, clinical practice, and government.

This page highlights the prestigious national and international accolades such as Nobel Prizes, National Medals, and National Academy memberships earned by AIMBE Fellows for their landmark contributions to medical and biological engineering.

Nobel Laureates

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Karl Deisseroth
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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David Baker
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Frances H. Arnold
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Paul C. Lauterbur
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Norman-Borlaug
Norman E. Borlaug
Nobel Peace Prize

National Medal of Technology & Innovation

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Paula Hammond, Ph.D.
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David Huang, MD, Ph.D.
David-Walt
David Walt, Ph.D.
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Paul Yock, M.D.
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Rory A. Cooper, Ph.D.
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James Fujimoto, Ph.D.
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Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D
Joe-DeSimone
Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D.
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Mark Humayun, M.D., Ph.D
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Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
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Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
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Esther Takeuchi, Ph.D.
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Dean Kamen, Sc.D.
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Raymond V. Damadian, Ph.D.
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Arnold O. Beckman, Ph.D.

National Medal of Science

Helen-Blau
Helen M. Blau, Ph.D.
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Emery Brown, MD, Ph.D.
Dabiri
John O. Dabiri, Ph.D.
Teresa
Teresa Woodruff, Ph.D.
Sheldon
Sheldon Weinbaum, Ph.D.
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Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
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Leroy E. Hood, M.D., Ph.D
Shu Chien
Shu Chien, M.D., Ph.D
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Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
RitaColwell
Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D.
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Edwin N. Lightfoot, Jr., Ph.D.
Norman-Borlaug
Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.
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Kenneth N. Stevens, Ph.D.
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Arnold O. Beckman, Ph.D.
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Paul C. Lauterbur, Ph.D.
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Michael DeBakey, M.D.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

John E. Abele
Lilia A. Abron, Ph.D., PE, BCEE
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D.
Joanna Aizenberg, Ph.D.
Nancy L. Allbritton, MD, Ph.D.
James M. Anderson, MD, Ph.D.
John Anderson, Ph.D.
Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D.
Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
Ellen M. Arruda, Ph.D.
David Auth, Ph.D., P.E.
Albert Babb, Ph.D., P.E.
David Baker, Ph.D.
Earl Bakken
Zhenan Bao, Ph.D.
Gilda A. Barabino, Ph.D.
Saeed D. Barbat, Ph.D.
Michael J. Barber
Harrison Barrett, Ph.D.
Regina Barzilay, Ph.D.
Peter J. Basser, Ph.D.
James Bassingthwaighte, MD, Ph.D.
George Bekey, Ph.D.
Georges Belfort, Ph.D.
Rebecca M. Bergman
Howard Bernstein, MD, Ph.D.
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, Ph.D.
Rena Bizios, Ph.D.
Harvey Blanch, Ph.D.
Cheryl R. Blanchard, Ph.D.
Arindam Bose, Ph.D.
Christopher Bowman, Ph.D.
Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D.
Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Ph.D.
Linda Broadbelt, Ph.D.
William Brody, MD, Ph.D.
Emery N. Brown, MD, Ph.D.
Barry Buckland, Ph.D.
Markus J. Buehler, Ph.D.
James W. Burns, Ph.D.
Douglas C. Cameron, Ph.D.
Edmund Y.S. Chao, Ph.D.
Rama Chellappa, Ph.D.
Hongming Chen, Sc.D.
Steven Chen, Ph.D.
Simon R. Cherry, Ph.D.
Shu Chien, MD, Ph.D.
George M. Church, Ph.D.
Michael J. Cima, Ph.D.
Paul Citron, MSEE, Ph.D. (hon.)
Douglas Clark, Ph.D.
Jennifer R. Cochran, Ph.D.
James J. Collins, Ph.D.
Dorin Comaniciu, Ph.D.
Charles Cooney, Ph.D.
Rory A. Cooper, Ph.D.
Stuart L. Cooper, Ph.D.
Arthur J. Coury, Ph.D.
Stephen Cowin, Ph.D.
Harold G. Craighead, Ph.D.
Steven M. Cramer, Ph.D.
Karl Deisseroth, MD, Ph.D.
Scott L. Delp, Ph.D.
Tejal A. Desai, Ph.D.
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D.
Jonathan Dordick, Ph.D.
Francis J. Doyle, III, Ph.D.
James Duncan, Ph.D.
Floyd Dunn, Ph.D.
Elazer R. Edelman, MD, Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
David Edwards, Ph.D.
Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Ph.D.
Arthur G. Erdman, Ph.D.
Edward Feigenbaum, Ph.D.
Katherine W. Ferrara, Ph.D.
Eli Fromm, Ph.D.
Xiaobing Fu, MD
Renato Fuchs, Ph.D.
Yuan-Cheng Bert Fung, Ph.D.
Martin Fussenegger, Ph.D.
Andres J. Garcia, Ph.D.
George Georgiou, Ph.D.
David B. Geselowitz, Ph.D.
Morteza Gharib, Ph.D.
Don P. Giddens, Ph.D.
Maryellen L. Giger, Ph.D.
Gary Glover, Ph.D.
Steven Goldstein, Ph.D.
John Gore, Ph.D.
Chetan T. Goudar, Ph.D., PE
Donald Greenberg, Ph.D.
Linda G. Griffith, Ph.D.
Andrew Grove
Farshid Guilak, Ph.D.
Susan C. Hagness, Ph.D.
Paula T. Hammond, Ph.D.
Justin S. Hanes, Ph.D.
William A. Hawkins, MBA
J. David Hellums, Ph.D.
Larry Hench, Ph.D.
Chih-Ming Ho, Ph.D.
Allan Hoffman, Sc.D.
Leroy E. Hood, MD, Ph.D.
Jiang Hsieh, Ph.D.
Ming Hsieh, MSEE
David Huang, MD, Ph.D.
Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Ph.D.
Thomas J. Hughes, Ph.D.
Mark Humayun, MD, Ph.D.
Nola M. Hylton, Ph.D.
Donald Ingber, MD, Ph.D.
Omar Ishrak, Ph.D.
Stephen Jacobsen, Ph.D.
Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
Bahram Jalali, Ph.D.
Keith P. Johnston
Abhay Joshi, Ph.D., MBA
Dean Kamen, Sc.D.
Roger D. Kamm, Ph.D.
David L. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Kazunori Kataoka, Ph.D.
Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D.
Jay Keasling, Ph.D.
Kenneth Keller, Ph.D.
Brian Kelley, Ph.D.
Sung Wan Kim, Ph.D.
Sangtae Kim, Ph.D.
Albert I. King, Ph.D.
Robert D. Kiss, Ph.D., P.E.
Alexander Klibanov, Ph.D.
Rob Knight, Ph.D.
Jindrich Kopecek, Ph.D.
Richard Korsmeyer, Ph.D.
Michael R. Ladisch, Ph.D.
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Ph.D.
Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., KCSL
Raphael C. Lee, MD, Sc.D., D.Sc. (Hon), FACS
Ann L. Lee, Ph.D.
Abraham M. Lenhoff, Ph.D.
Mark Levin, M.S.
Jennifer A. Lewis, Sc.D.
James C. Liao, Ph.D.
Frances S. Ligler, D.Phil., D.Sc.
John H. Linehan, Ph.D.
Bin Liu, Ph.D.
Laurie E. Locascio, Ph.D.
Albert Macovski, Ph.D.
Azad M. Madni, Ph.D.
Asad M. Madni, Ph.D.
Gargi Maheshwari, Ph.D.
Josh Makower, MD
Alfred E. Mann
Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D.
William Marras, Ph.D.
Larry V. McIntire, Ph.D.
Paul Mensah, Ph.D.
Charles A. Mistretta, Ph.D.
Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D.
David J. Mooney, Ph.D.
Duncan Moore, Ph.D.
Van Mow, Ph.D.
Kyle J. Myers, Ph.D.
Robert M. Nerem, Ph.D.
Jens B. Nielsen, Ph.D.
Laura E. Niklason, MD. Ph.D.
M. Allen Northrup, Ph.D., FRSC
Matthew O’Donnell, Ph.D.
Julio M. Ottino, Ph.D.
Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D.
Bernhard O. Palsson, Ph.D.
E. Terry Papoutsakis, Ph.D.
P. Hunter Peckham
Norbert Pelc, Sc.D.
Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D.
Kurt E. Petersen, Ph.D.
Roderic I. Pettigrew, MD, Ph.D.
Linda R. Petzold, Ph.D.
Leonard Pinchuk, Ph.D., D.Sc., NAE.
Robert Plonsey, Ph.D.
Kristala L.J. Prather, Ph.D.
Mark Prausnitz, Ph.D.
Judit E. Puskas, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Stephen Quake, D. Phil.
John Quinn, Ph.D.
Nimmi Ramanujam, Ph.D.
Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Ph.D.
Buddy D. Ratner, Ph.D.
Rui L. Reis, MD, DSc, Ph.D.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.
John A. Rogers, Ph.D.
Howard B. Rosen
Arye Rosen, Ph.D.
Yoram Rudy, Ph.D.
Murray B. Sachs, Ph.D.
Ann B. Salamone, MS
Joseph C. Salamone, Ph.D.
W. Mark Saltzman, Ph.D.
Clifford M. Samuel
Juan G. Santiago, Ph.D.
Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D.
Amarpreet S. Sawhney, Ph.D.
David V. Schaffer, Ph.D.
Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Jerome S. Schultz, Ph.D.
Albert Schultz, Ph.D.
Norman Scott, Ph.D.
Charles D. Scott, Ph.D.
Michael Sefton, Sc.D.
Molly S. Shoichet, Ph.D.
Michael L. Shuler, Ph.D.
Marwan A. Simaan, Ph.D., P.E.
Winston Soboyejo, Ph.D.
Darlene J. S. Solomon, Ph.D.
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Ph.D.
Molly Morag Stevens, Ph.D.
Kenneth N. Stevens, Ph.D.
Samuel I. Stupp, Ph.D.
Yu Sun, Ph.D.
Melody A. Swartz, Ph.D.
James Swartz, Ph.D.
Yu-Chong Tai, Ph.D.
Esther S. Takeuchi, Ph.D.
Marc B. Taub, Ph.D.
Charles A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Russell H. Taylor, Ph.D.
Arthur J. Tipton, Ph.D.
David Tirrell, Ph.D.
Matthew Tirrell, Ph.D.
Jean Wilim Tom, Ph.D.
Claire J. Tomlin, Ph.D.
Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.
Ghebre Tzeghai, Ph.D.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.
David R. Walt, Ph.D.
Lihong Wang, Ph.D.
Yulun Wang, Ph.D.
Jaw-Kai Wang, Ph.D.
Daniel I. C. Wang, Ph.D.
Robert S. Ward, Ph.D. (H)
Kenneth Washington, Ph.D.
John T. Watson, Ph.D.
Watt Webb, Ph.D.
Sheldon Weinbaum, Ph.D.
David A. Weitz, Ph.D.
Jennifer L. West, Ph.D., NAE, NAM
John A. White, Ph.D.
Blake S. Wilson, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Eng., Dr.med.hc
Kensall Wise, Ph.D.
K. Dane Wittrup, Ph.D.
Savio L-Y Woo, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Eng.
Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.
Younan Xia, Ph.D.
Taiyin Yang, Ph.D.
Martin L. Yarmush, MD, Ph.D.
Jackie Y. Ying, Ph.D.
Paul G. Yock, MD
Ajit P. Yoganathan, Ph.D.
Laurence R. Young, Sc.D.
Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

Denise R. Aberle, MD
Steven Allen Abrams, MD
Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D.
Maria Jose Alonso, Ph.D.
Russ B. Altman, MD, Ph.D.
Fabrisia Ambrosio, Ph.D., MPT
Guillermo Ameer, Sc.D.
Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D.
James M. Anderson, MD, Ph.D.
Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D.
Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
Anthony Atala, MD
Gilda A. Barabino, Ph.D.
Robert Bartlett, MD
Regina Barzilay, Ph.D.
Rashid Bashir, Ph.D.
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, Ph.D.
Rena Bizios, Ph.D.
Helen M. Blau, Ph.D.
Michael L. Boninger, MD
Henry Brem, MD, F.A.C.S.
Patricia F. Brennan, RN, Ph.D.
William Brody, MD, Ph.D.
Emery N. Brown, MD, Ph.D.
Joseph E. Buckwalter, MD
Thomas Budinger, MD, Ph.D.
Jason A. Burdick, Ph.D.
Atul Butte, MD, Ph.D.
Michael A. Caligiuri, MD
Xuetao Cao, MD, Ph.D.
John Chae, MD
Elliot L. Chaikof, MD, Ph.D.
Christopher S. Chen, MD, Ph.D.
Shu Chien, MD, Ph.D.
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D.
James J. Collins, Ph.D.
Dorin Comaniciu, Ph.D.
James E. Crowe, MD
Karl Deisseroth, MD, Ph.D.
Tejal A. Desai, Ph.D.
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D.
Francis J. Doyle, III, Ph.D.
Kafui Dzirasa, MD, Ph.D.
Elazer R. Edelman, MD, Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
Richard L. Ehman, MD
Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Ph.D.
Andrew Feinberg, MD, MPH
Daniel A. Fletcher, Ph.D.
Yuman Fong, MD
Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D.
Sanjiv Gambhir, MD, Ph.D.
Andres J. Garcia, Ph.D.
George Georgiou, Ph.D.
Sharon Gerecht, Ph.D.
Joe W. T. Gray
Linda G. Griffith, Ph.D.
Farshid Guilak, Ph.D.
Paula T. Hammond, Ph.D.
Justin S. Hanes, Ph.D.
Paul A. Harris, Ph.D.
Florence P. Haseltine, MD, Ph.D.
Leroy E. Hood, MD, Ph.D.
David Huang, MD, Ph.D.
Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Ph.D.
Mark Humayun, MD, Ph.D.
Nola M. Hylton, Ph.D.
Donald Ingber, MD, Ph.D.
Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D.
Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
Richard Johns, MD
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS
Roger D. Kamm, Ph.D.
Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D.
Melina R. Kibbe, MD
Sung Wan Kim, Ph.D.
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, Ph.D.
Elisa E. Konofagou, Ph.D.
Casimir A. Kulikowski, Ph.D.
Wilbur A. Lam, MD, Ph.D.
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., KCSL
Kam W. Leong, Ph.D.
Jennifer A. Lewis, Sc.D.
Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD
Bradley A. Malin, Ph.D.
Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D.
Michael Marletta, Ph.D.
Edward W. Merrill, Ph.D.
Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D.
Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D.
Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D.
David J. Mooney, Ph.D.
Marsha A. Moses, Ph.D.
Van Mow, Ph.D.
Robert M. Nerem, Ph.D.
Jens B. Nielsen, Ph.D.
Laura E. Niklason, MD. Ph.D.
Victor Nizet, MD
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, Ph.D.
Sergiu P. Pasca, MD
Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D.
Charles S. Peskin, Ph.D.
Roderic I. Pettigrew, MD, Ph.D.
Michael Phelps, Ph.D.
William Pierce, MD
Etta D. Pisano, MD
Katherine S. Pollard, Ph.D.
Mark Prausnitz, Ph.D.
Carla M. Pugh, MD, Ph.D., FACS
Stephen Quake, D. Phil.
Thomas Rando, MD, Ph.D.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.
John A. Rogers, Ph.D.
Bruce R. Rosen, MD, Ph.D.
Murray B. Sachs, Ph.D.
W. Mark Saltzman, Ph.D.
Michael A. Savageau, Ph.D.
Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Michael Sefton, Sc.D.
Krishna V. Shenoy, Ph.D.
William Stead, MD
Molly Morag Stevens, Ph.D.
Mriganka Sur, Ph.D.
Melody A. Swartz, Ph.D.
Peter Szolovits, Ph.D.
Matthew Tirrell, Ph.D.
David Tirrell, Ph.D.
Mehmet Toner, Ph.D.
Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.
David R. Walt, Ph.D.
Lihong Wang, Ph.D.
Sheldon Weinbaum, Ph.D.
Jennifer L. West, Ph.D., NAE, NAM
Flaura K. Winston, MD, Ph.D.
Savio L-Y Woo, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Eng.
Pamela K. Woodard, MD
Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D.
Joseph C. Wu, MD, Ph.D.
Younan Xia, Ph.D.
Michael J. Yaszemski, MD, Ph.D.
Laurence R. Young, Sc.D.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D.
Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, Ph.D.
Helen M. Blau, Ph.D.
Emery N. Brown, MD, Ph.D.
Shu Chien, MD, Ph.D.
James J. Collins, Ph.D.
Karl Deisseroth, MD, Ph.D.
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D.
Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Ph.D.
Paula T. Hammond, Ph.D.
Leroy E. Hood, MD, Ph.D.
Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Ph.D.
Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D.
Lydia E. Kavraki, Ph.D.
Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
Cato T. Laurencin, MD, Ph.D., KCSL
Jennifer A. Lewis, Sc.D.
Michael Marletta, Ph.D.
Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D.
Jens B. Nielsen, Ph.D.
Charles S. Peskin, Ph.D.
Michael Phelps, Ph.D.
Stephen Quake, D. Phil.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.
Matthew Tirrell, Ph.D.
David Tirrell, Ph.D.
Sheldon Weinbaum, Ph.D.
Joanna Aizenberg, Ph.D.
David Baker, Ph.D.
Zhenan Bao, Ph.D.
Bonnie Berger, Ph.D.
Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.
Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D.
Charles Cantor, Ph.D.
Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D.
Floyd Dunn, Ph.D.
Elliot L. Elson, Ph.D.
James G. Fujimoto, Ph.D.
Yuan-Cheng Bert Fung, Ph.D.
Leonard Herzenberg, Ph.D.
Alexander Klibanov, Ph.D.
Paul Lauterbur, Ph.D.
Sang Yup Lee, Ph.D.
Edwin N. Lightfoot, Jr., Ph.D.
Robert Mann, Sc.D.
Heather Maynard, Ph.D.
Ruth Nussinov, Ph.D.
Teri W. Odom, Ph.D.
Julio M. Ottino, Ph.D.
Linda R. Petzold, Ph.D.
Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D.
Ascher Shapiro, Sc.D.
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Ph.D.
Kenneth N. Stevens, Ph.D.
Samuel I. Stupp, Ph.D.
RIchard P. Van Duyne, Ph.D.
Viola Vogel, Ph.D.
Watt Webb, Ph.D.
David A. Weitz, Ph.D.
Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.