Seven Washington University in St. Louis faculty members have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), joining 23 existing fellows at Washington University. The new fellows are among 162 colleagues inducted March 25 in Arlington, Va.
Election to AIMBE’s College of Fellows is limited to the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in these fields. Those elected are considered to have made outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine research, practice or education.
Washington University’s newly inducted fellows are: Tammie L.S. Benzinger, MD, PhD; Joseph P. Culver, PhD; Michelle L. Oyen, PhD; Alexander H. Stegh, PhD; Ting Wang, PhD; and Lan Yang, PhD.
Elliot L. Elson, PhD, a professor emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the School of Medicine, was elected to last year’s class but is being inducted this year.