Robert Langer is one of 8 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He has written over 1,500 articles, which have been cited over 419,000 times; his h-index of 321 is the highest of any engineer in history and the 3rd highest of any individual in any field. His patents have licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies; he is a cofounder of a number of companies including Moderna. Dr Langer served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board (its highest advisory board) from 1999-2002. His over 220 awards include both the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (he is one of 3 living individuals to have received both these honors), the Charles Stark Draper Prize (often called the Engineering Nobel Prize), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Albany Medical Center Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Kyoto Prize, Wolf Prize for Chemistry, Millennium Technology Prize, Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), Gairdner Prize, Hoover Medal, Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine, Balzan Prize, and the Dr. Paul Janssen Award. He holds 42 honorary doctorates, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern, and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.
Prof Barabino serves as president of Olin College. She received a B.S. from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Ph.D. from Rice University. A chemical engineer by training, with broad interests in global health and interdisciplinary research and education, Dr. Barabino has pioneered new engineering approaches to problems in medicine. Her seminal research in sickle cell disease has informed current technologies and formed the basis for novel therapies. She is a passionate advocate for health equity and leads national efforts to engage engineers in the development of solutions to health disparities. Prior to becoming president of Olin College, Dr. Barabino served as Dean of the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York and held appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering as well as at the City University of New York School of Medicine. There she established the Master’s in Translational Medicine program, which addresses unmet clinical needs through the integration of engineering, medical innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Barabino is Board Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Prof Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic holds the University Professor appointment, the highest academic rank at Columbia University, as the first engineer in the history of Columbia to receive this highest distinction. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and specialized in biomedical engineering as a Fulbright Fellow at MIT. Her diverse team of engineers, clinicians, and scientists is developing innovative tissue engineering technologies for improving human health. Her laboratory is interested in whole organ engineering for regenerative medicine (including lung, heart and bone), and “organs-on-a-chip” models of injury and disease (including ischemia, fibrosis and cancer). From these studies, they published 3 books and 465 journal articles, including those in Nature, Cell, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Science Advances, PNAS, Cell Stem Cell, and Science Translational Medicine. Her laboratory has launched four biotech companies. For her entrepreneurship, she received four NASA awards for patents, an annual inventor award of the European Patent Office in 2021.
Michael I. Miller is the Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is co-director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute. He earned his BS from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976, and his MS in electrical engineering and PhD in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1978 and 1983, respectively. Prof Miller is pioneering cutting-edge technologies in computational medicine to understand and diagnose neurodegenerative diseases. He has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, as well as two highly cited textbooks on random point processes and computational anatomy. He has received numerous awards including the national Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Biomedical Engineering Thesis Award in 1982, the Johns Hopkins Paul Ehrlich Graduate Student Thesis Award in 1983, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1986. He was named an inaugural Johns Hopkins University Gilman Scholar in 2011 for demonstrating a distinguished record of research, teaching, and service. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Shankar Subramaniam is a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Computer Science & Engineering, Cellular & Molecular Medicine and Nano Engineering at University of California San Diego. He was the Chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of California at San Diego (2008-13). He was the Founding Director of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the University of California at San Diego. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and is a recipient of Smithsonian Foundation and Association of Laboratory Automation Awards and his research work is described below. In 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of AAAS. In 2002 he received the Genome Technology All Star Award. Subramaniam has played a key role in raising national awareness for training and research in bioinformatics. He served as a member of the National Institute for Health (NIH) Director’s Advisory Committee on Bioinformatics, which resulted in the BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE (BISTI) report. Dr. Subramaniam has also served on Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Advisory Councils for Virginia Tech, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of several Biotech and Bioinformatics Companies.
Tejal A. Desai assumed the role of Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University, effective September 1, 2022. Desai’s research spans multiple disciplines including materials engineering, cell biology, tissue engineering, and pharmacological delivery systems to develop new therapeutic interventions for disease. She seeks to design new platforms, enabled by advances in micro and nanotechnology, to overcome challenges in therapeutic delivery. With more than 260 peer-reviewed articles and patents, Desai’s research has earned her numerous recognitions including Technology Review’s “Top 100 Young Innovators,” Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” and the Dawson Biotechnology Award. She served as president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering from 2020 to 2022 and is a fellow of AIMBE, IAMBE, CRS, and BMES. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, the National Academy of Inventors in 2019, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024. Desai was also awarded the 2023 Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting — the highest honor the organization can bestow upon an individual who has demonstrated impactful leadership and accomplishments in biomedical engineering science and practice. Desai is a vocal advocate for education and outreach to historically underrepresented groups in STEM and her work to break down institutional barriers to equity and cultivate a climate of inclusion has earned numerous honors and awards.
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