Congratulations to Dr. Lola Eniola-Adefeso
@Lola_UMich
@UMengineering
for winning the 2022 AIMBE Professional Impact Award - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Congratulations to the 153 individuals elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2022! We're so glad to welcome you to the AIMBE community. You can browse the full list of the new cohort, here:
Congratulations to
@BostonU_BME
star faculty and star person
@profjoycewong
, who was elected President-Elect of
@aimbe
. Joyce, we are so proud of your accomplishments!
Congrats to all of the new 2021 AIMBE Fellows! Welcome to the AIMBE community!! See our press release with the full list of 174 Fellows here:
Mark your calendar for their induction ceremony on March 26!
Congratulations to the AIMBE Fellows Class of 2023! 122 engineers, researchers, and innovators were inducted on March 27 to the AIMBE College of Fellows. See the full list here:
AIMBE President
@TejalDesaiUCSF
issues a national crisis statement during this challenging time. Read on about how biomedical engineers "must unite to eliminate racism, advance criminal justice reform, and fight against economic & health care inequality."
Congratulations to the 2024 AIMBE Fellows! Welcome to the AIMBE community. Your duty with AIMBE is to give back to medical and biological engineering through advocacy for the field. View the listing of new Fellows:
Congratulations to Dr. Emery Brown
@Harvard
@MIT
@MassGeneralNews
for winning the 2022 Pierre Galletti Award, the highest honor that AIMBE bestows on an individual.
While the AIMBE Annual Event has been cancelled, we still want to recognize the outstanding Class of 2020 Fellows. Please give a virtual round of applause for our new inductees, listed here: . Congratulations, Fellows! Welcome to the AIMBE community.
AIMBE is announcing a Summit for BME university leaders to actively lead the way on anti-racism in academia on January 28-29, 2021. University presidents, Deans, and Chairs to speak. NIH and NSF funders too! Registration is free to all -->
Huge thank you to all of the AIMBE Fellows that visited with their lawmakers during the AIMBE Annual Event! It's never been more important to advocate for the issues that matter to MBE! This is our mission and it's not possible without your engagement.
With more than 10 years of service to AIMBE, Executive Director Milan Yager has retired with our deepest gratitude for advancing AIMBE's critical advocacy mission. Please join me in thanking Milan for his 30+ years of dedication to public service! 🎉
AIMBE appoints Dr. Dawn Beraud as AIMBE Executive Director! Dr. Beraud joins AIMBE from serving at the NIH for the past decade. She will begin her tenure in July. Learn more about Dr. Beraud here:
AIMBE's Equity and Anti-racism Summit on Jan. 28-29 kicks off with this esteemed panel addressing, "What Anti-Racism Can/Should Look Like in BME". Don't miss out - this event will not be recorded in entirety to promote authentic and thoughtful dialog:
NIH grants awarded to scientists under the age of 36 fell from 5.6% in 1980 to 1.5% in 2017. Here's a rhetorical question: How successful would Silicon Valley be if 99% of investments were awarded age 36+ w/ strong bias toward funding only safe, nonrisky projects?
#SciMagEditorial
The AIMBE virtual meeting on Friday will be
@TejalDesaiUCSF
's final meeting of her AIMBE presidency. She navigated AIMBE's mission through a pandemic - please join us as she passes the torch to the incoming AIMBE President (to be announced during the meeting)!
AIMBE President
@TejalDesaiUCSF
provides remarks during the Biden Administration's listening session on ARPA-H, noting: "with the opportunity to create a new entity, there is an opportunity to build in a culture of equity, inclusion, and transparency."
Congrats to the 8 AIMBE Fellows elected to the NAE today!
@CESchmidt_UF
@TejalADesai
Nancy L. Allbritton, MD, Ph.D
Rory A. Cooper, Ph.D.
Rob Knight, Ph.D.
Gargi Maheshwari, Ph.D
Charles A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D.
Congrats to
@GVNlab
as recipient of the Pierre Galleti Award, AIMBE's highest honor! Dr. Vunjak-Novakovic will receive the award on Friday during AIMBE's Annual Meeting. Don't miss her remarks!!
On Monday, we will induct nearly 150 AIMBE Fellows to the Class of 2023! We look forward to sharing this announcement and thank everyone who can join us in person for this momentous occasion.
In one month, AIMBE will induct its 2023 Class of the College of Fellows! I hope you will be there to support your colleagues as they walk across the stage and into the AIMBE community on Monday, March 27. It's not to late to register at
Thank you👏to AIMBE Past President
@GildaBarabino
for sponsoring 25 travel awards to URM students to attend the AIMBE Policy Institute. Let's celebrate Gilda's dedication to uplifting minority students! Now, take a look at our future leaders 👀-->
AIMBE's largest cohort of URM Travel Awardees at our two-day Public Policy Institute! Thanks for coming to DC and learning about the intersection of science and policy!
Bonnie Berger
@MIT
and her colleagues have developed a cryptographic system that could help neural networks identify promising drug candidates in massive pharmacological datasets, while keeping the data private…
AIMBE is announcing a Summit for BME university leaders to actively lead the way on anti-racism in academia on January 28-29, 2021. University presidents, Deans, and Chairs to speak. NIH and NSF funders too! Registration is free to all -->
AIMBE welcomes its newest officers to its Board of Directors, including AIMBE President
@TejalDesaiUCSF
, to lead the organization’s critical advocacy mission.
Congratulations to AIMBE Fellows Rena Bizios,
@Farsh_G
, Nola Hylton, Bahram Jalali, and Taiyin Yang for being elected to the National Academy of Engineering! You join 200 AIMBE Fellows that have been named NAE Fellows over the years.
I got a new grant!...is a really popular tweet. Thanks to collaborators, thx to funding institution. Have you ever considered tagging and thanking your lawmakers? They appropriate $$$ that supports your grant. How will they know they made a difference if you do not tell them?🤔
There are only 33 female deans out of 186 engineering deans across the country (2018 NAE). This is why AIMBE's Symposium on Diversifying Paths to Academic Leadership is critical. Take a look at the data on the AIMBE website:
Join AIMBE Jan. 27-28 for a virtual symposium to prepare faculty women and URM in BioE to pursue academic leadership roles (dean, chair, etc). Support your colleagues by circulating widely! Register here:
Welcome, AIMBE President Dr. Christine Schmidt
@CESchmidt_UF
! Dr. Schmidt's two year term brings responsibility to continue AIMBE's growing mission defending and advancing
#BME
.
Thank you
@GildaBarabino
for the travel awards of 10 URM students to attend the AIMBE Policy Workshop and interact with NIH, FDA, and White House officials. Your AIMBE leadership has extended well beyond your AIMBE presidency, and we are delighted to recognize your efforts!
Let your Members of Congress know that immigration is paramount to science and you oppose the Executive Order placing restrictions on foreign visas. Click and send AIMBE's pre-drafted letter...takes 2 minutes at
Congratulations to the AIMBE Professional Impact Awardees Cato Laurencin,
@RashidB23819196
, Walt Baxter,
@CheslerLab
,
@DrPlattLab
, and Ajit Yoganathan! This may be the most awards we've given at once - all extremely well deserved. We LOVE celebrating achievements at AIMBE!
If you think it's important for NIH to receive relief funds under the COVID stimulus to resume pre-pandemic research and launch new COVID-19 projects, write to your Members of Congress now! Takes 2 minutes at
Co-led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
@GVNlab
, Columbia and Vanderbilt researchers are first to demonstrate in a clinically relevant model that severely damaged lungs can be regenerated to meet transplantation criteria.
In a letter to the White House, AIMBE and 36 scientific societies urge the administration to prioritize the immigration of science and technology talent that will spur the scientific breakthroughs and economic growth of the US that is needed for rapid recovery from COVID pandemic
AIMBE Fellows Stephanie Fraley
@UCSDJacobs
and Wally Block
@UWMadEngr
spent a very full day with AIMBE on Capitol Hill advocating for federal science funding, concluding with a congressional science exhibition
@CLS_Advocates
Does anyone still think professors and researchers should stay out of policy/politics? How much damage has this message done over the years? Speak your voice and give your lawmakers a piece of your (expert) mind. Email your lawmakers now with a few clicks:
The funding disparity at NIH must be addressed. Tune in to AIMBE's Equity and Anti-Racism Summit to hear directly from NIH on Thursday/Friday of this week and make your voice heard:
Historic first: AIMBE Executive Committee led by all pioneering women in
#BME
. Treasurer Alyssa Panitch
@UCDavisCoE
& COF Chair Tejal Desai
@UCSF_BioE
join Pres. Christine Schmidt
@CESchmidt_UF
& Past Pres. Dr. Barabino
@CityCollegeNY
to move AIMBE forward.
HUGE appreciation to the schools from AIMBE Academic Council for sponsoring today's Equity and Anti-racism Summit. Without their support, this wouldn't be possible.
#DiversityandInclusion
#antiracism
Thank you to the 220+ Fellows currently serving as reviewers for the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2022! Inviting a new cohort to join AIMBE and give back to the field is our most rewarding task - thank you for doing your part!
AIMBE President
@TejalDesaiUCSF
urges Congress for $26B in supplemental appropriations to support university labs, students, postdocs during COVID. Write your lawmakers in support of this urgent funding. Msg can be edited or sent with a single click at:
Guillermo Ameer organized a wonderful program and your engagement made it an outstanding event/reunion, thank you for attending!!
Stay turned for social media photo superlatives. 1st up, most creative:
@kristybrock
@MDAndersonNews
@kkbGoBlue
@BettyKimLab
In two weeks, 60+ AIMBE Fellows will be storming Capitol Hill to advocate for federal research funding for our 2nd Annual Advocacy Day. Last years' participants - any advice to our Fellows you want to share?
To all of our wonderful new inductees on Monday, welcome to the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2019! We can't wait to congratulate you and cheer you on as you walk across the stage at the National Academies. A major milestone worth celebrating!
EQUITY & ANTI-RACISM: A ROADMAP TO POLICY TRANSFORMATION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Now it's time for you to share your thoughts. Listen to "Key Aspects of Mentoring Underrepresented Groups in BME" and participate in the breakout room sessions.
After most successful Annual Meeting and year of achievement new leadership takes over AIMBE with Christine Schmidt as President and Tejal Desai as Chair of the College of Fellows from Gilda Barabino and Tony Guiseppi-Elie
AIMBE President
@TejalDesaiUCSF
encourages every faculty member, including leadership, to demand an end to student visa cancellations. As many as 1.6 million students could be impacted by this action. Read AIMBE's full statement + how to get involved:
Congrats! On Sunday, Oct. 6, the National Academy of Engineering will present the Simon Ramo Founders Award to Cato Laurencin
@UConnEngineer
@ctconvergence
for his research contributions and leadership in engineering.
TOMORROW: Don't forget to watch your friends and colleagues become inducted to AIMBE at 3 p.m. ET on Friday. So excited for our incoming AIMBE Fellows!
For the first time ever, AIMBE is hosting yet another student policy workshop this year on October 24-25 in DC about the policy landscape shaping BME, with a focus on
#scipol
careers. URM TRAVEL AWARDS!!!! More info: .
AIMBE Class of 2020 is our most diverse class of the College of Fellows to date! The Class of 2020 saw a doubling of underrepresented minorities elected to the College of Fellows since 2019. In addition, the new Class included a 35 percent increase in female Fellows over 2019.
A selfie taken by Rep. Adam Schiff during AIMBE's 2019 Advocacy day. This is the moment you have prepared for, the infamous elevator pitch...in the elevator! What would you have said in 30 seconds?
In one month, AIMBE will induct its 2023 Class of the College of Fellows! I hope you will be there to support your colleagues as they walk across the stage and into the AIMBE community on Monday, March 27. It's not to late to register at
Chad Mirkin, Ph.D., has been selected as AIMBE's 2023 Earl Bakken Lecturer at the AIMBE Annual Meeting on March 26-27. Register at . Our host hotel has only 25% rooms left in our discount block, book now!
Bringing together students, staff, faculty and leadership to share their unique perspectives on the current barriers facing Black scholars in STEM fields with the goal of taking action to address racial inequity in STEM. REGISTER HERE:
Tomorrow is the last day to submit your AIMBE nominations. The next cohort will only be as diverse and distinguished as your submissions. Thank you to everyone that has submitted already - esp. to those that have submitted URM candidates!
NIH funding has made it possible to cure many types of cancer, including most childhood leukemia & Hodgkin's lymphoma. US cancer mortality rates have decreased 23% saving 1.7 million lives. Yet, NIH buying power 20% below a decade ago. Congress do better or voters send a message.
AIMBE has a new letter for you to send to your Members of Congress letting them know... withdrawing visas for international students planning to attend US colleges that have announced online courses is outrageous! Send your letter now, takes 2 minutes.
This week, AIMBE is hosting a symposium on Diversifying Paths to Academic Leadership on Jan. 27-28. Thank you
@BMESociety
, the Council of Chairs, and all of our Academic Council sponsors for supporting women and URM in BioE to pursue leader roles.
AIMBE has made strides to increase diversity within the society, including nearly tripling the participation of URM in the AIMBE College of Fellows. Thank you to our leadership and those committed to diversity at AIMBE. Explore AIMBE’s diversity resources:
Juergen Hahn and his team at Rensselaer BME
@RPI_BME
@RPIEng
who developed a blood test to help diagnose autism spectrum disorder have now successfully applied their distinctive big data-based approach to evaluating possible treatments.
Next week, AIMBE will be bringing 50 congressional staff to
@NIBIBgov
to witness medical health technology demonstrations. This will be our 4th NIH congressional tour! Delighted for Bruce Tromberg to host us!
AIMBE President Dr. Christine Schmidt
@CESchmidt_UF
@lab_schmidt
highlights how to get involved this mid-term election season. Make sure you know if your candidates will vote to increase funding for
#NIH
and
#NSF
. Read on:
Congratulations to AIMBE Fellow Guillermo Ameer
@NorthwesternEng
, the new Chair of the AIMBE Awards Committee. We are looking forward to your leadership in recognizing the achievements of our outstanding community!
Delighted to partner with
@NIBIBgov
to showcase BME health technologies to congressional staff today! Many thanks to Director Bruce Tromberg for hosting us, as well as AIMBE Fellows
@DrPlattLab
,
@helenhehuang8
, Daniel X. Hammer et al for demonstrating their work.
EQUITY & ANTI-RACISM: A ROADMAP TO POLICY TRANSFORMATION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Finally what you've all been waiting for: "Addressing Recruitment and Retention Strategies" is now live. Find the link at
Michael King
@profmikeking
and his team
@VUEngineering
have discovered “cellular soldiers” created using the body’s own defenses can track down and kill escaping cancer cells during surgeries.
AIMBE honored so so many deserving individuals in medical and biological engineering during the AIMBE virtual Annual Event last week, including 153 new Fellows. Watch the meeting recording with this link:
Thank you to
@Parisa__Rashidi
and
@BarzilayRegina
for their talks on AI in Healthcare during AIMBE's Congressional Lunch Briefing today. Glad to see a few AIMBE Fellows in the room!
@BeraudDawn
EQUITY & ANTI-RACISM: A ROADMAP TO POLICY TRANSFORMATION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
We're so excited to begin introducing our remarkable line up of the first panels today. "University President’s Address Racism in BME" is now on air. Go to:
AIMBE will open nominations this week for the 2025 AIMBE Fellows! We're launching a new online portal to submit nominations and we'll be hosting two live training sessions on using the platform in the coming weeks. Learn about nomination requirements here:
AIMBE Fellows and their students should plan to attend the May 4 March for Science in NYC or in more than 100 cities nationwide. Science continues to be sidelined at our federal agencies...your voice matters. Let's do this together!
#NYU
joins the
@sciencemarchnyc
on May 4 in support of open access of scientific information to the general public 🔬, the use of science for the common good & preservation of democracy 🗳, and the protection of human and environmental rights. 🌎
#EarthDay