Announcing the 2024 BMES Award Winners

Annual Meeting, Awards, BMES News,

Each year, the BMES Awards program recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions of those in the field of biomedical engineering. Each winner will give a lecture at the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting in Baltimore.


Congratulations to this year's winners!

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2024 Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award
Kyriacos Athanasiou, PhD

UCI Samueli School of Engineering
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering
UCI Samueli School of Engineering


“Translation of Biomedical Engineering Advances”
Thursday, October 24 at 11:00 a.m.
 
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BMES Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering Award 
Christine E. Schmidt

J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of Florida

"Engineering Materials for Clinical Nerve Repair, and Other Applications Along the Way"
Friday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m.

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Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Award
Ke Cheng
Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering 
Columbia University

"Minimally invasive delivery of therapeutics to the heart with biomaterials and devices"
Friday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m.

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2024 Diversity Lecture Award
LatinXinBME

Brian Aguado
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Founder of LatinXinBME
UC of San Diego

Ana Maria Porras
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Co-Founder & Senior Advisor of LatinXinBME
University of Florida 

"Building a Virtual Community to Support and Celebrate the Success of Latinx Biomedical Engineers"
Thursday, October 24 at 5:15 p.m.

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2024 Mid-Career Award
Kelly Stevens PhDAdam Engler
James Chao-Yao Koh and Maria Lee Koh Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
University of Washington

“Engineering Human Organoids, Organs, and Societies”
Saturday, October 26 at 11:00 a.m.

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Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
Marian Hettiaratchi

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
University of Oregon


"Precision protein delivery: Engineering protein-material affinity interactions for tissue repair"
Saturday, October 26 at 11:00 a.m.

Learn more about each award