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.