2018: Elliot McVeigh
Reason for Nomination: For recognition of his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the advance of the magnetic resonance field in cardiac studies, with many seminal works now translated in the clinical practice.
2018: Ellis Fan-Chuin Meng
Reason for Nomination: For outstanding contributions to biomedical microelectromechanical systems and their applications in drug delivery, microsensors, and neural interfaces
2017: Guang-Zhong Yang
Reason for Nomination: For outstanding contributions to medical imaging and robotics technology that have transformed minimally invasive surgery.
2017: Anant Madabhushi
Reason for Nomination: For contributions in computer aided diagnosis, pattern recognition, machine learning and image analysis tools for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response prediction of disease from digital pathology and radiographic images
2016: Steven Boppart
Reason for Nomination: For foundational advances in optical biomedical imaging and translation of optical imaging technologies into clinical applications and use
2016: Jeffrey Fessler
Reason for Nomination: For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the theory and algorithms of statistical reconstruction methods of the PET/ SPECT, CT and MRI medical imaging modalities
2015: Nigell Lovell
Reason for Nomination: For world class contributions to research, clinical trialing, and commercialization of medical device technologies and wearable sensors including visual prostheses, telehealth systems and ambulatory falls monitors
2015: Russell H. Taylor
Reason for Nomination: For contributions and leadership in the field of medical robotics
2014: Brian T. Cunningham
Reason for Nomination: For development and commercialization of optics-based biosensors and detection instruments for applications in drug discovery, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and life science research.
2014: Zhi-Pei Liang
Reason for Nomination: For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the theory, algorithms, and biomedical applications of model-based magnetic resonance imaging
2013: Nicolas Chbat
Reason for Nomination: For contributions to advancing Intensive Care Unit cardiopulmonary medicine based on inventions that include non-invasively estimating breathing work, staging acute respiratory syndrome and kidney injury and modeling of disease predictors significant contributions to the development of micro and nanoscale biosensors
2013: Ali Khademhosseini
Reason for Nomination: For pioneering contributions at the interface between engineering, biomaterials and biological sciences, especially applications of microand nanoengineered biomaterials for regenerative medicine.
2012: Rashid Bashir
Reason for Nomination: For significant contributions to the development of micro and nanoscale biosensors.
2011: Michael Unser
Reason for Nomination: For outstanding contributions to signal and image processing with applications in biomedical imaging
2011: Lihong Wang
Reason for Nomination: For seminal contributions to ultrasonically enabled biophotonic imaging and modeling of photon transport in biological tissue
2010: Xiaochuan Pan
Reason for Nomination: For significant contributions to medical imaging
2010: Kenji Sunagawa
Reason for Nomination: For significant contributions to neuroengineering
2010: Nitish Thakor
Reason for Nomination: For significant contributions to cardiovascular engineering