Faculty Awards
Primary faculty
- Emily Day has received a 2014 UDRF grant and a 2014 ACCEL grant to explore breast cancer nanotherapy.
- Dawn Elliott has received the Van C. Mow Medal from ASME (2015) for significantly advancing the field of biomedical engineering, has received the 2015 Orthopaedic Research Society Outstanding Achievement in Mentoring Award, has been awarded a NIH grant to explore tissue engineering (2014), and has been elected American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellow and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) fellow (2013).
- Jason Gleghorn has received a 2015 UDRF grant to investigate kidney branching morphogenesis, was the recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2015) from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), and has received an 2015 COBRE Pilot Project grant to study the directed self-assembly of vascular architectures in microfluidic biomaterials, an NSF grant (2015) to study the mechanics of lung development, and was the recipient of the 2016 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes Foundation.
- Chris Price has received a 2014 UDRF grant to study bone cells, was awarded a NIAMS grant (2013) to study the micro-fluidic behavior of cartilage using spatiotemporal image correlation spectroscopy (STICS), a novel bio-imaging technique, and has received a Department of Defense grant (2013) to study a novel therapy for post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
- John Slater has received an 2014 INBRE Pilot Project award, and a 2014 UDRF award to develop 3D microfluidic systems.
Joint/Adjunct faculty
- Stuart Binder-MacLeod leads new Delaware-CTR ACCEL program that has received $25 million to support growth of clinical and translational research.
- Richard Braun has received 2013 Outstanding Scholar Award from the College of Arts & Sciences.
- Thomas Buchanan, as director of Delaware Rehabilitation Institute (DRI), was awarded a five-year COBRE continuation grant (2012) for osteoarthritis research.
- Jenni Buckley was awarded UD’s Excellence in Advising and Mentoring Award for 2012-13.
- David Burris was awarded a NSF grant to elucidate scaling effects of friction (2014).
- Wilfred Chen has received the 2012 Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) annual meeting.
- Daniel Cortes has received a R21 NIH grant to study healing of tendon injuries (2015).
- Thomas Epps was named 2014 Young Investigator by Sigma Xi, was named Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2012), was selected by the University’s Francis Alison Society to receive its 2011 Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars Award for his innovative research in polymer science, received a DuPont Young Professor grant in 2010, is part of team receiving NIST award (2012) for continued neutron scattering research, and was named Martin Luther King, Jr visiting professor at MIT (2012).
- Cole Galloway has received a NSF grant to explore infant mobility and development (2014), has received the UD Class of 1963 Golden Anniversary Award for “outstanding humanitarian efforts” and “enhancing the academic environment” at the University.
- Jill Higginson has received the 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Engineering and a 5-year educational grant from NIH and a grant from the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance to help fund a clinical immersion course for BME undergraduates (2015).
- Xinqiao Jia has received the 2011 Academic Research Award from the Delaware BioScience Association for her work on the synthesis of functional biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications and received a DuPont Young Professor grant in 2010.
- Chandra Kambhamettu received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to explore text mining of biomedical information.
- Kristi Kiick named 2014 American Chemical Society Fellow, was awarded the 2013 Academic Research Award from the Delaware BioScience Association, was selected for the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE at Drexel) program, Class of 2013-14 fellows, was elected 2012 fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for seminal contributions to the design and synthesis of novel macromolecular biomaterials, and has received funding for a collaborative research project with the Fraunhofer Center for Molecular Biotechnology (CMB) (2012).
- Catherine Kirn-Safran’s article was selected for Biomedical Materials 2012 highlights.
- April Kloxin has received a 2015 UDRF award to study bone health, the 2013 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences award, a National Science Foundation Career Award (2013) to study the extracellular signals that regulate tissue stability, disease and repair in the body, and a University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF) grant (2012) for her research on developing hydrogels for the controlled release of therapeutic drugs to treat skin cancers.
- Christopher Kloxin has received a 2015 UDRF award to study drug delivery.
- Arun Kumar (with Karin Silbernagel) has received a 2015 COBRE NIH pilot grant to develop a nanoparticle-based theranostic agent to treat IBC metastasis, and a 2013 UDRF grant to develop new nanocomposites that mimic natural bone for use in implant therapy.
- Kelvin Lee was the 2011 inaugural winner of the American Electrophoresis Society Award, was elected a 2011 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his “distinguished contributions to the development and application of proteomics technology to human health”, was awarded, as principal investigator, a National Science Foundation grant (2012) under the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program to train doctoral students in the area of systems biology of cells in engineered environments, and has received the 2013 Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for his outstanding contributions to the field of chemical engineering.
- Abraham Lenhoff received 2014 Francis Alison Award as a faculty member who best demonstrates the combination of leadership and teaching.
- Li Liao’s research on developing novel computational methods to predict protein-protein interaction sites that are often implicated in cardiovascular disease and cancers was selected as a 2012 Delaware’s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program pilot project.
- Lucas Lu has received Rising Star Award from BMES (2014), has received a 2012 UDRF grant for his research on developing a non-invasive mechanical technique for the early detection of osteoarthritis, a Junior Investigator Grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (2013) to study the effects of weight bearing rehabilitation after microfracture surgery, and a Department of Defense grant (2013) to study a novel therapy for post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
- David Martin has been named a 2015 American Chemical Society Fellow
- Mark Mirotznik has received the 2011 H.A. Wheeler Prize Paper award for the best applications paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
- Anja Nohe has received 5-year NIH grant (2014) to study osteoporosis treatment.
- Babatunde Ogunnaike was named 2014 National Academy of Inventors fellow, was named 2014 MAC Eminent Chemical Engineer by AIChE, was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (2012) for his contributions to advances in process systems, process engineering practice and systems engineering and was elected to the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (2012) for being a senior Nigerian professional who has distinguished himself in business, academia and government.
- Terry Papoutsakis has received 2014 Delaware Bio Academic Research Award from INBRE, has received a Daniel I.C. Wang Award from AIChE (2013), won for his presentation at the 2013 DBI Research Symposium, was awarded a 2012 Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) grant and was selected as 2011 American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow “for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the society.”
- Darrin Pochan was elected 2012 fellow of the American Physical Society for his research in developing new nanostructures and functional materials that can have biomedical applications in drug therapy or tissue regeneration, and is part of team receiving a NIST award (2012) for continued neutron scattering research.
- Ioannis Poulakakis has received 2014 NSF Career Award to develop planning strategies for animal-inspired robots.
- John Rabolt named member of National Academy of Inventors (2014) for his groundbreaking infrared technology, and has received the 2013 Innovation in Materials Characterization award.
- Christopher Roberts is part of team receiving NIST award (2012) for continued neutron scattering research.
- Hagit Shatkay received a R56 grant (2015), an ACCEL Big Data grant (2015), and a R01 grant from the National Library of Medicine (2015) to explore text mining of biomedical information and was a GLOBEX Fellow at Peking University teaching Computational Biomedicine (2014).
- Abhi Singh has received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2013) from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), an UDRF grant (2013), and a NSF grant to perform the stochastic modeling and inference of gene networks; he was also awarded the 2012 Best Thesis Award from the Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC), University of California at Santa Barbara.
- Karin Silbernagel (with Arun Kumar) has received a 2015 COBRE NIH pilot grant to develop a nanoparticle-based theranostic agent to treat IBC metastasis
- Lynn Snyder-Mackler has a Junior Investigator Grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (2013) to study the effects of weight bearing rehabilitation after microfracture surgery.
- Millicent Sullivan has received a NIH grant to develop non-varal carriers for gene therapy for bone repair, was awarded a 2013 Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) grant for her research on “Assembly of Novel Controlled Release Polyplexes for Efficient mRNA Delivery”, and was selected to present at 2013 Georgia Tech Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop.
- Herbert Tanner has won the 2011 Outstanding Paper for the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics for his research on neural networks.
- Michela Taufer named David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair (2012).
- Lian-Ping Wang was elected a 2011 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for pioneering research in computational fluid mechanics.
- Liyun Wang has received a 5-year NIH R01 grant to study the mechanosensing abilities of the osteocytic pericellular matrix.
- Cathy Wu was awarded a 2012 Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) grant for her research on “Bioinformatics Optimization for Recombinant Protein Expression for Vaccines and Therapeutics”.
- Jingyi Yu’s was selected to be a 2012 Delaware’s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program pilot project for his research on developing a new immersive surgery training system that will provide high-fidelity 3D reconstructions of actual surgical procedures .