The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering will induct Professors Sean Sun and Jeff Wang into its College of Fellows during AIMBE’s 2017 Annual Event at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., today.
Members of the College of Fellows are considered among the top two percent of the country’s medical and biological engineers and include distinguished and accomplished research directors, professors, engineering and medical school chairs, and successful entrepreneurs and innovators.
Sean Sun, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was honored for his “outstanding contributions to our quantitative understanding of cell mechanics, cell motility and force generation mechanisms in live cells.”
Tza-Huei “Jeff” Wang, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was recognized for his “outstanding contributions to the development of nano-biosensor and single-molecular detection technologies for genetic and epigenetic analysis of diseases.”