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The National Academy of Medicine has elected Sergiu Pasca, MD, the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor II of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, to its membership — one of the highest honors in medicine. Pasca, who is also the Bonnie Uytengsu and Family...

Matthew Tirrell, D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for pioneering the design and synthesis...

Abrams joins the eminent society of scientists and physicians providing evidence-based leadership in medicine. Steven A. Abrams, M.D., professor in Dell Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for...

Jennifer Lewis, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has...

Brief: Prof. Wolfgang Fink presented at the Third Annual Medical & Healthcare Robotics Digital Summit, September 16, 2026, produced by Medical Design Briefs and SAE International/SAE Media Group: a fully online event that once again brings together...

Younan Xia elected to network of leading scientific and medical professionals worldwide Younan Xia, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He was recognized for “the invention...

Ashutosh Chilkoti, the Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine...

Paul Harris, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering and Biostatistics, is among 100 newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the organization announced Oct. 19. Formerly called the Institute of Medicine,...

When Dr. Laurie Goodrich first heard that a newly formed federal research agency was looking to fund projects that could reverse the effects of osteoarthritis with a single treatment, she thought it sounded like an ambitious goal. It would be amazing...

Established in 1902, the medal honors pioneering leaders whose work has fundamentally advanced human progress. Madni joins a distinguished group of recipients that includes Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Claude Shannon, Gordon Moore, Andrew Viterbi...

Cooper was a young Army sergeant stationed in Germany in 1980 when a bicycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Wheelchair technology at the time was primitive. Chairs were heavy, unreliable, and built with no particular urgency to work...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 is awarded for optogenetics — a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain. Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered a remarkable protein,...

In 1992, Karl Deisseroth, Ph.D. ’98, M.D. ’00, arrived at Stanford to begin his MD-PhD training. By 2005, in a lab of his own on campus, he showed that a protein borrowed from pond algae and a flash of blue light could make cultured rat neurons fire on...

Extreme dry mouth, caused by radiation for cancer treatment and autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren’s disease, radically affects quality of life for sufferers. It can hamper speaking, swallowing and eating, and for years has seemed an intractable problem. Attempts...

Liangfang Zhang is a chemical engineer and bioengineer creating novel nanotechnologies for targeted drug delivery, medical countermeasures such as vaccines and antibacterial and antiviral drugs, and other biomedical applications. Zhang develops cell membrane...

Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside of the human brain — and outside of laboratory glassware. In a study published online Sept. 16 in Nature, the researchers succeeded in transplanting self-organizing...

Electrophysiologist Jonathan Chrispin, MD, wanted to do more. He was standing in the electrophysiology lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, catheter in hand, about to ablate a patient’s ventricular tachycardia (VT) — a potentially fatal arrhythmia...

Electrophysiologist Jonathan Chrispin, MD, wanted to do more. He was standing in the electrophysiology lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, catheter in hand, about to ablate a patient’s ventricular tachycardia (VT) — a potentially fatal arrhythmia...

Eric Perreault, a research executive, academic leader and biomedical engineering professor at Northwestern University, has been selected as the third chief executive officer of the Morgridge Institute for Research, beginning early in 2027. The Morgridge...

Chairman of the Board of the King Salman International Award for Disability Research Ahmed Al-Rajhi announced the winners of the fourth edition of the award, which attracted broad international participation, with 770 nominations received from 111 countries...