Northwestern Engineering Leads at AIMBE Annual Meeting
*Article text drawn from Michelle Mohney's extended 3/27/23 article in the Engineering News, linked below.
Organized by Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo Ameer, the AIMBE Chair of the College of Fellows, AIMBE staged its first in-person Annual Meeting in three years. Held March 26-27, the theme of the event was “Restoring and Preserving Public Trust in Medical and Biological Engineering,” and saw remarks from a dozen speakers and panelists, including Matthew Hepburn from the White House Office of Science and Technology. The gathering also had AIMBE Fellows attending meetings on Capitol Hill with their members of Congress, where they discussed funding priorities for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Ameer, Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering, professor of surgery at Feinberg, and director of the Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, was honored with AIMBE’s Professional Impact Award for Leadership. He was cited for “advancing biomaterial sciences and technology translation and promoting the fields of regenerative engineering, diversity and inclusion among national professional societies.”
Chad Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology, delivered the Earl Bakken Lecture. Mirkin’s talk explored nanotechnology in medicine and society.