2025 CMBE Conference Awards
Congratulations to the 2025 CMBE Award Winners!
The 2025 BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Conference would like to formally announce and congratulate the distinguished 2025 winners of the three BMES CMBE Awards.
Shu Chien Achievement Award

Dr. Chris Chen
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Christopher Jacobs Award for Excellence in Leadership

Dr. Yi-xian Qin
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co-Director, Institute for Engineering-Driven Medicine
Stony Brook University, Flagship of State University of New York
CMBE Momentum Award (sponsored by APL Bioengineering)

Dr. Jenny Jiang
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Congratulations to the Following 2025 CMBE Awardees
Rising Star Awardees
The CMBE Rising Star Award recognizes a BMES-CMBE SIG member who is at their early independent career stage and has made an outstanding impact on the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.

Brian Aguado

Haogang Cai

Jun Chen

Yanxiang Deng

Marian Hettiaratchi

Laurel Hind

Guosong Hong

Priscilla Hwang

Nitin Joshi

Esak Lee

Jiahe Li

Claudia Loebel

Panagiotis Mistriotis

Karina Nakayama

Hadi Nia

Shreya Raghavan

Ritu Raman

Quinton Smith

Yichun Wang

Joshua Weinstein
Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Awardees
(sponsored by Med-X journal)
The CMBE Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Award recognizes a postdoctoral research fellow who will attend the 2025 BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference to present their outstanding research in the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.

Brandon Applewhite

Marissa Gionet Gonzales

Matthew Ishahak

Benjamin Lee

Junzhe Lou

Di Zhang
Graduate Student Travel Awardees
The CMBE Graduate Student Travel Award recognizes a graduate student researcher who will attend the 2025 BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference to present their outstanding research in the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.

Tianyu Chen

Ana Diaz Espinosa

Ali Kazempour

Daanish Kulkarni

Karla Lambaren

Tuba Marjan

Ai Mochida

Bella Raykowski

Yerbol Tagay
