• Ashutosh Chilkoti won the 2025 Technology Innovation and Development Award from the Society for Biomaterials.
• Charles Gersbach made this year’s list of “Most Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate.
• John Hickey received the Young Investigator Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
• Kathy Nightingale received the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine’s William J. Fry Memorial Lecture award.
• Amanda Randles won the Inaugural Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
• Junjie Yao was named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and was elected to AIMBE College of Fellows.

• Pranam Chatterjee received a $50,000 donation from the foundation EndAxD to work toward a cure for Alexander Disease and received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health.
• Joel Collier received a Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials for his contributions to research and scientific literature.
• Jessilyn Dunn won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve biosignal algorithms.
• Charles Gersbach won an Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Scholar Award to work toward reprogramming immune cells for the treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
• A-Andrew Jones won the SSMN Early Career Alumnus Award from the Social Science Research Council and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network.
• Nimmi Ramanujam won a Department of Defense 2024 Innovator Award to improve the detection and treatment of early-stage breast cancer.
• Amanda Randles won the ACM Prize in Computing and was named a Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Ann Saterbak won the Biomedical Engineering Lifetime Faculty Mentor Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Biomedical Engineering Division.
• Tatiana Segura received a Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials for her contributions to research and scientific literature.
• Blake Wilson was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and won the 2024 IEEE Medal for Innovation in Healthcare Technology.

• Pranam Chatterjee won a 2022 Hartwell Biomedical Research Award
• Jessilyn Dunn and her lab were selected to participate in the 2023 Google Season of Docs
• Charles Gersbach made the 2022 Clarivate “Highly Cited Researchers” list and was elected to the National Academy of Inventors
• Warren Grill won the first annual North American Neuromodulation Society Clinical and Basic Science/Engineering Innovator Award and was elected to the National Academy of Inventors
• Warren Grill was named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neural Engineering, and he and his collaborators advanced to Phase II of the Neuromod Prize competition
• Roarke Horstmeyer received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
• Joe Izatt was selected for a fellowship to build skills in equity-centered academic leadership as an Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellow
• Cameron Kim received the Best Work-in-Progress presentation from the American Society for Engineering Education in the Biomedical Engineering Division
• Samira Musah received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program
• Nimmi Ramanujam received the Biomedical Engineering Award from IEEE.
• Amanda Randles won a high-impact computational science award through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program
• Amanda Randles won the Association for Computing Machinery SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader In Technical Computing
• Daniel Reker received the Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
• Michael Rubinstein was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society
• Tatiana Segura was named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
• Tuan Vo-Dinh and his startup Minutia, which is pursuing a functional cure for Type 1 diabetes, won the first American Diabetes Association Innovation Challenge

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, American Chemical Society—Matthew Becker
• Fellow, Optical Society of America—Sina Farsiu
• Editor-in-chief, Biomedical Engineering Education (Biomedical Engineering Society)—Ann Saterbak

Media Recognition

• Acta Biomateriala Silver Medal Award—Tatiana Segura

National Recognition and Professional Leadership

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Ravi Bellamkonda, Ashutosh Chilkoti and Tony Huang
• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors—Kathryn Nightingale and Blake Wilson
• Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors—Amanda Randles
• Chair, US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering—Jennifer West
• Top 100 Finalist, 100&Change Competition, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation—Nimmi Ramanujam

Professional Society Recognition

• Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, The Optical Society—Nimmi Ramanujam
• Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)—Nimmi Ramanujam
• Women in Molecular Imaging (WIMIN) Outstanding Leadership Award, World Molecular Imaging Congress—Nimmi Ramanujam
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Sina Farsiu
• Fellow, International Union of Societies for Biomaterials and Engineering—Ashutosh Chilkoti
• President, American Association of Physicists in Medicine—James T. Dobbins III
• EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society—Nimmi Ramanujam

Early Career Awards

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)—Amanda Randles
• Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics Society—Junjie Yao

Fellowships and Research Awards

• Faculty Fellow in Israel, Jewish National Fund—Xiling Shen
• Top 100 Finalist, 100&Change Competition, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation—Nimmi Ramanujam

University Awards and Honors

• Aleksander S. Vesic Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University—Michael Rubinstein
• Bass Fellow, Duke University—Brenton Hoffmann
• Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award, Pratt School of Engineering—Eric S. Richardson
• Lois & John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award, Pratt School—Joel Collier
• WOMc Impact Award, Duke Women’s Center—Nimmi Ramanujam

Media Recognition

• 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America, Cell Press—Samira Musah
• Highly Cited Researchers, ISI-Web of Science—Charles Gersbach and Guillermo Sapiro

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Fulbright Global Scholar Award, U.S. Department of State—Nimmi Ramanujam
• Trailblazer Award, National Institutes of Health—Stefan Zauscher

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)—Lingchong You
• Van C. Mow Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Tony Jun Huang

Early Career Awards

• Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation—Yiyang Gong
• Young Investigator Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—Junjie Yao

University and School Honors

• Bass Connection Professor (Duke University)—Amanda Randles
• Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Duke University)—Jennifer West
• Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award (Duke University)—Kevin Caves
• Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Wanda Krassowska Neu
• Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Charles Gersbach
• Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Ann Saterbak
• Capers and Marion McDonald Mentoring and Advising Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Gregg Trahey
• Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Duke University Pratt School of Engineering)—Sina Farsiu

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (United States of America) – Joseph Izatt, Nimmi Ramanujam, Tuan Vo-Dinh
• Drs. Anvar and Pari Velji Emerging Leader in Global Health Innovation Faculty Award, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (Multinational) – Nimmi Ramanujam

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society — Fan Yuan
• Outstanding Member of the Editorial Board Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society – Sina Farsiu
• Bingham Medalist, Society of Rheology – Michael Rubinstein

Early Career Awards

• IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing – Amanda Randles
• Grace Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery – Amanda Randles

Distinguished and Plenary Lectures

• Plenary lecturer, Second World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies — Fan Yuan

National Academy of Engineering Membership

• Elected in 2017 – Blake Wilson

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Member, National Academy of Inventors – Jennifer West
• Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal, Acoustical Society of America – Blake Wilson
• ARVO Foundation/Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award – Sina Farsiu
• Allen Distinguished Investigator, Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group – Charles Gersbach

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America – Blake Wilson
• Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering – Joel Collier and Charles Gersbach
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Xin Li
• Editor-in-Chief, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering – George Truskey

Early Career Awards

• Analytic Chemistry 2017 Young Innovator Award – Tony Jun Huang
• Beckman Young Investigator, Beckman Foundation – Yiyang Gong
• Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation – Yiyang Gong
• Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award, Parkinson’s Disease Foundation – Michael Tadross
• Vallee Young Investigator, Vallee Foundation – Yiyang Gong

University and School Honors

• Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (Duke University) – Libby Bucholz
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Duke University Graduate School) – Joseph Izatt
• Distinguished Service Award (Pratt School) – Roger Coke Barr
• Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research (Pratt School) – Fan Yuan
• Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring & Advising (Pratt School) – Marc Sommer
• Lois & John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Mark Palmeri
• Diamond Award for Distinguished Achievement in Academia (University of Washington) – Ashutosh Chilkoti
• Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (University of Edinburgh) – Dan Sorin
• Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (University of Edinburgh) – Dan Sorin

Distinguished and Plenary Lectures

• Director’s Lecture, National Institutes of Health – Jennifer West

Media Recognition

• “Top 100 Discoveries of 2016,” Discover Magazine – Xiling Shen
• “Innovators Under 35,” MIT Technology Review – Amanda Randles
• Most Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Engineering (Elsevier Scopus data compiled by MSE Supplies) – Ashutosh Chilkoti

National Academy of Engineering Membership

• Elected in 2016 – Jennifer West

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• 2016 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — Warren Grill
• NVIDIA Global Impact Award — Joseph Izatt
• GSK & Save the Children Healthcare Innovation Award — Robert Malkin/Fundación VIHDA, Ecuador
• 2016 Technology Award, Eduard Rhein Foundation — Blake Wilson

Professional Society Recognition

• Finalist, 2015 Gordon Bell Prize – Amanda Randles
• Senior area editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing – Sina Farsiu
• Pascal Rol Award for Best Paper in Ophthalmic Technologies at the SPIE Photonics West 2015 – Sina Farsiu
• President-Elect, International Society for Bioelectromagnetism – Craig Henriquez
• Charter Member, NIH BMIT-B Study Section – Kathryn Nightingale
• Vice chair & chair-elect, Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering – Jennifer West
• Vice chair & chair-elect, Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements – Marc Sommer

Early Career Awards

• Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research — Michael Lynch
• Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator, 2015 — Brent Hoffman

University and School Honors

• 2016 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (Duke University) — Elizabeth Bucholz
• Teamwork Award (Duke University) — Guillermo Sapiro & colleagues
• 2016 Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education, The Duke University Graduate School — MRSEC (Stefan Zauscher, Director)
• Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) — Brenton Hoffman
• Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) — Roger Nightingale
• Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) — Jennifer West
• 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi — Ashutosh Chilkoti
• Honorary doctorate in medicine, University of Salamanca (Spain) — Blake Wilson

Distinguished Lectureships

• Plenary lecture, SPIE Biophotonics South America Symposium — Tuan Vo-Dinh

Media Recognition

• 2015 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy — Miguel Nicolelis

Society Member/Fellow Recognition

• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors – Ashutosh Chilkoti
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science – George Truskey
• Fellow, IEEE – Guillermo Sapiro and Blake S. Wilson
• Alternate Member, IEEE – Roger Barr
• Fellow, AIMBE College of Fellows – Lawrence Boyd, Nenad Bursac, Kathy Nightingale and Adam Wax
• Chair, AIMBE College of Fellows – Jennifer West

University and School

• Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (Duke University) – Warren Grill
• Inaugural Dastgheib Pioneer Award in Ocular Innovation (Duke University Eye Center) – Joseph Izatt
• Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Charles Wallace
• Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) – Kathy Nightingale
• Robert W. Carr, Jr., Distinguished Professorship of Biomedical Engineering – Nimmi Ramanujam

National/International

• National Academy of Engineering Russ Prize – Blake S. Wilson
• Clemson Award for Basic Research, Society of Biomaterials – Jennifer West
• Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson-Reuters – Jennifer West
• C.E.K. Mees Medal, Optical Society of America – Warren Warren
• Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University (Sweden) – Blake S. Wilson

Early Career

• Young Investigator Award, Creative and Novel Ideas for HIV Research – Benjamin Yellen
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award – Brenton Hoffman

Media Recognition

• MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, Popular Science Brilliant 10 – Jon Viventi

Society Member/Fellow Recognition

• Elected 2014 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors – Kam Leong

University and School

• Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Elizabeth Bucholz
• Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award (Pratt School) – Nenad Bursac
• Outstanding Postdoc Mentor (Duke University) – & Secret Provost honor in Fall
  Warren Grill
• Chandran Award in Neuro-Oncology (Pratt School) – Paolo Maccarini
• Capers & Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (Pratt School) – Lori Setton
• 2013 Chandran Lecture in Neuro-Oncology  (Pratt School) – Jennifer West

National/International

• Inaugural recipient of the BMES Innovator Award for Cell & Molecular Bioengineering and the 2014 Arthritis Foundation Investigator Award – Farsh Guilak
• 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar Grant – Monty Reichert

Early Career

• Outstanding New Investigator, ASGCT and Capers & Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) – Charlie Gersbach