The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a

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founded in 1991, and headquartered in

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. It represents 50,000 medical and

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, and academic institutions, private industry, and professional engineering societies.

College of Fellows

Since AIMBE’s inception, over 2,000 individuals have been inducted to AIMBE’s College of Fellows. These fellows include heads of medical and engineering schools. Some Fellows work for the government, acting as consultants, or directing clinical trials. Some Fellows are members of other prominent academic institutions, such as the

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and the

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. Others have received the

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and the

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. Fellows use the post-nominal FAIMBE.

Industry Council

The Industry Council consists of corporate leaders in the biomedical engineering field.

Partnership with FDA

AIMBE is one of many organizations that has a Network of Experts Agreement with the

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(FDA). It also partners with the FDA for its Scholars Program, which places post-doctorates in biomedical engineering fields in one-year positions at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health in

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at the agency's

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campus, to serve as expert advisors to agency staff.

Notable Fellows

* Frances H. Arnold, (2001) * Giorgio Carta, (2002) *

Rashid Bashir Rashid Bashir is Dean of The Grainger College of Engineering, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the Executive Associate Dean and Chief Diversity O ...

, (2010) * Ravi V. Bellamkonda, (2006) President 2014-2016 * Emery N. Brown, (2006) *

Shu Chien Shu Chien (; born June 23, 1931 in Beijing, China), is a Chinese–American physiologist and bioengineer. His work on the fluid dynamics of blood flow has had a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as athe ...

, Founding Fellow(1992), President 2000, recipient of the 2004 Pierre Galletti Award *

Dorin Comaniciu Dorin Comaniciu (born 1964) is a Romanian-American computer scientist. He is the Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthcare. Research Comaniciu is known for his work in computer vision, medic ...

, (2013) *

Tejal A. Desai Tejal Ashwin Desai (born June 3, 1972) is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of ...

, (2012) *

Joseph DeSimone Joseph M. DeSimone (born May 16, 1964) is an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has co-founded companies based on his research, including the American 3D printing technology company, Carbon, of which he was CEO from 2014 until No ...

, (2007) * Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, (2006) * Trey Ideker, (2014) *

Donald E. Ingber Donald E. Ingber (born 1956) is an American cell biology, cell biologist and bioengineering, bioengineer. He is the founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University,Crow, James Mitchell (19 Janua ...

, (2011) *

Dean Kamen Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1,000 ...

, (2012) *

Jeffrey Karp Jeffrey Karp (born 1975) is a Canadian biomedical engineer working as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the principal faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Affiliate Faculty at the Massa ...

, (2013) *

Jay Keasling Jay D. Keasling is a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also associate laboratory director for biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and chief executive officer ...

, (2000) * Ali Khademhosseini, (2012) * Robert S. Langer, Founding Fellow(1992), Chair, 1995, inaugural recipient of the Pierre Galletti Award, * Cato T. Laurencin, (2000), Chair, 2008, recipient of the 2009 Pierre Galletti Award *

Michael I. Miller Michael Ira Miller (born 1955) is an American-born biomedical engineer and data scientist, and the Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering. He worked with Ulf Grenander in ...

, (1998) * David J. Mooney, (2002), Chair, 2012 * Robert M. Nerem, Founding President, 1992, recipient of the 2002 Pierre Galletti Award s *

Nicholas A. Peppas Nicholas (Nikolaos) A. Peppas ( gr, Νικόλαος Α. Πέππας; born August 25, 1948 in Athens, Greece) is a Chemical engineering, chemical and Biomedical engineering, biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterial, biomaterials science ...

, Founding Fellow (1993), Chair, 2007, recipient of the 2008 Pierre Galletti Award * Marjolein van der Meulen, (2008) * Aliasger K. Salem, (2018) * Anthony S. Weiss, (2013) * Leslie Ying, (2019) * Vince Calhoun, (2014) *

Lakiesha Williams Lakiesha Williams is a Biomedical engineering, biomedical engineer and an Associate Professor at the University of Florida. Williams specializes in traumatic brain injury and biomechanics. Specifically, her work involves the modelling and mechanic ...

, (2020) for “outstanding contributions in traumatic brain injury research and for tireless advocacy of biomedical engineering to communities underrepresented in STEM.“ * Pavlos Vlachos

References

External links

* {{Official, https://aimbe.org Health care-related professional associations based in the United States Biomedical engineering