2018: Carmen Poon
Reason for Nomination: For contributions to wearable sensing and endoscopic surgery
2017: Chulhong Kim
Reason for Nomination: For contributions to multi-scale photoacoustic imaging from super-resolution atomic force photoactivated microscopy for research to systems for clinical applications.
2016: Lei Ding
Reason for Nomination: For significant contributions to neural engineering
and biomedical imaging”
2015: Danielle S. Bassett
Reason for Nomination: For her pioneering and fundamental contributions to neural and systems engineering, including formalizing graph-based representations of neuroimaging data, characterizing human brain network architecture in health and disease, and discovering a network- based predictor of individual differences in human learning
2014: Qi Wang
Reason for Nomination: For his contribution to neural engineering and biomedical instrumentation, including measuring biomechanical properties of skin and tissue, building a tactile display for a virtual Braille system, and discovery of a neural basis for sensory adaptation in behavior
2013: Muhammad H. Zaman
Reason for Nomination: For seminal contributions to developing novel quantitative experimental and computational models of tumor development, growth and metastasis and for developing new engineering tools to address high impact global health challenges
2012: Utkan Demirci
Reason for Nomination: For your significant contributions to the invention of microfludic droplets and its impact in low-cost, disposable, point of care dignostics.
2011: Jose M. Carmena
Reason for Nomination: For significant contributions to the development of cortical brain-machine interfaces for the restoration of sensory-motor function in neurologically impaired patients
2010: Dario Farina
Reason for Nomination: For outstanding contributions on in biomedical signal processing and electrophysiology with fundamental applications in the study of neural control of movement and in motor rehabilitation
2009: Silvestro Micera
Reason for Nomination: For contributions on the development of implantable neuroprostheses and biomechatronic devices for the restoration of sensory-motor function
2008: Ali Khademhosseini
Reason for Nomination: For contributions at the interface between engineering, biomaterials, and biological sciences. In particular, the application of micro– and nanoengineered biomaterials and surface modification approaches for biomedicine.
2007: Tejal Desai
Reason for Nomination: For pioneering work in the field of bioMEMS focusing on implantable therapeutic microtechnology, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and cell-based sensing, and for advancing biomedical engineering education in micro-to-nano biotechnologies.
2006: Alejandro Frangi
2005: Stephen Boppart
Reason for Nomination: For significant advances in the field of optical biomedical imaging including the development of molecular contrast enhancing probes and techniques in optical coherence tomography
2004: Susan Hagness
2003: Paolo Vicini
Reason for Nomination: For innovative developments in the theory and application of engineering software design, modeling, and simulation methods to an extensive array of relevant problems in modern biomedical research
2002: Dorin Panescu
Reason for Nomination: For groundbreaking research in ratio frequency (RF) cardiac catheter alNation, the invention alx1 development of cardiac alNation mappng systems, alx1 systems of mcAti{ie electrodes.
2001: David Beebe
Reason for Nomination: Significant contributions to the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and their applications in medicine and biology.