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.

2025 Winner Photos

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

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.

2025 Winner Photos

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.