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

biomedical engineers Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

, 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 National Medal of Technology. 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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (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

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at the agency's White Oak campus, to serve as expert advisors to agency staff.

Notable Fellows

Frances H. Arnold Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I ...

, (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 Emery Neal Brown (born 1957) is an American statistician, neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a practicing anesthe ...

, (2006) * Shu Chien, Founding Fellow(1992), President 2000, recipient of the 2004 Pierre Galletti Award * Dorin Comaniciu, (2013) * Tejal A. Desai, (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 Anthony "Tony" Guiseppi-Elie is a Trinidad born scientist and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Texas A&M University. He is also President and Scientific director of ABTECH Scientific, Inc. Awards and honors Gu ...

, (2006) *

Trey Ideker Trey Ideker is a professor of medicine and bioengineering at UC San Diego. He is the Director of the National Resource for Network Biology, the San Diego Center for Systems Biology, and the Cancer Cell Map Initiative. He uses genome-scale measurem ...

, (2014) * Donald E. Ingber, (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, ...

, (2012) * Jeffrey Karp, (2013) * Jay Keasling, (2000) *

Ali Khademhosseini Ali Khademhosseini ( fa, علی خادم‌حسینی, born October 30, 1975, Tehran, Iran) is the Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute and former professor at the University of California-Los Angeles where he held a multi-departmental profes ...

, (2012) *

Robert S. Langer Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and one of the twelve Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshaus ...

, 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, (1998) * David J. Mooney, (2002), Chair, 2012 *

Robert M. Nerem Robert M. Nerem, often referred to as Bob Nerem, a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, held the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Emeritus at the ...

, 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 and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, phar ...

, 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 Leslie Ying is an American biomedical engineering scientist in the field of medical imaging. She is the Clifford C. Furnas Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Y ...

, (2019) *

Vince Calhoun Vince Daniel Calhoun is an American engineer and neuroscientist. He directs the Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a partnership between Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of T ...

, (2014) * Lakiesha Williams, (2020) for “outstanding contributions in traumatic brain injury research and for tireless advocacy of biomedical engineering to communities underrepresented in STEM.“ *

Pavlos Vlachos Pavlos P. Vlachos is a Greek-American engineer, scientist, academic, and entrepreneur. He is professor in Purdue’s School of Mechanical Engineering and in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and the St. Vincent Health Professor of Hea ...

References

External links

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