Awards & Recognition

Our faculty members are recognized nationally and internationally for their professional excellence

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  • 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

  • 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

    Early Career Awards

    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

  • 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