Ameer, CARE Alumni Honored at BMES Annual Meeting
The Biomedical Engineering Society bestowed a number of honors during its 2023 Annual Meeting in Seattle on October 11-14th, with several current and former CARE members among them. CARE Director Guillermo Ameer received the BMES Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering Award, recognizing the achievements of an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of biomedical engineering with a particular focus in translation. Ameer is a pioneer in the development of citrate-based biomaterials, including several tissue fixation devices currently on the market. The most recent, CITRELOCK ACL, recently received FDA clearance. More information on the Athanasiou Medal can be found here.
BMES also recognized Jian Yang, Chair Professor in Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering at Westlake University, with its Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation. The first postdoctoral scholar to work with Ameer, Yang is also an innovator in the development and applications of citrate-based biomaterials. It is the most recent of many honors in Yang’s career, including an NSF Career Award and the 2023 Chinese Association for Biomaterials Distinguished Leadership and Service Award. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, BMES, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering.
The organization recognized Eun Ji Chung as one of its 2023 Fellows, having demonstrated impactful achievements and made significant contributions to the biomedical engineering community and to BMES. Chung is Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early-Career Chair and Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Medicine, and Surgery at the University of Southern California. She is the recipient of the Controlled Release Society’s Member of the Year Award, the AHA’s Collaborative Sciences Award and Transformational Project Award, and BMES’s Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Award, among other honors since earning her Ph.D. at Northwestern in 2011, with Ameer serving as her advisor.
Alongside this celebration of achievement, a new generation of CARE researchers presented their own work at BMES 2023, and attended the CARE reception on the evening of the 13th.
