 |
Jerome A. Gilbert | |
|---|---|
| 37thPresident of Marshall University | |
| In office January 1, 2016 –December 31, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen J. Kopp |
| Succeeded by | Brad D. Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Mississippi State University Duke University |
Jerome A. Gilbert is a biomedical engineer and university administrator. He was the president of Marshall University in Huntington,West Virginia. [1]
Gilbert was born in Mississippi and received his bachelor's degree from Mississippi State University. He then received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Duke University.
Gilbert was previously a graduate assistant at Duke,and later held academic appointments at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina Medical School. In 1988 he joined the faculty of Mississippi State,and was made a full professor in 1993. He also held a position at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In 2010 he became provost of Mississippi State. He was appointed President of Marshall University in 2016 following the sudden death of Dr. Stephen Kopp. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and of the Fellows of the Institute of Biological Engineering. [2]
William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University,a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
Russ Biagio Altman is an American professor of bioengineering,genetics,medicine,and biomedical data science and past chairman of the bioengineering department at Stanford University.
Ali Khademhosseini is the Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute and former Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles where he held a multi-departmental professorship in Bioengineering,Radiology,Chemical,and Biomolecular Engineering and the Director of Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT). From 2005 to 2017,he was a Professor at Harvard Medical School,and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. His studies have been cited over 88,000 times. Khademhosseini is best known for developing hydrogels for tissue engineering and bioprinting.
Cato T. Laurencin,M.D.,Ph.D.,is an American engineer,physician,scientist,innovator and a University Professor of the University of Connecticut.
Esmaiel Jabbari is a full professor of chemical engineering at the University of South Carolina.
Shu Chien,is a Chinese–American physiologist and bioengineer. His work on the fluid dynamics of blood flow has had a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. More recently,Chien's research has focused on the mechanical forces,such as pressure and flow,that regulate the behaviors of the cells in blood vessels. Chien is currently President of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering,founding Director of the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices,and Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute located in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering,where he assisted in establishing the department and provided leadership that led to its nationally ranked status.
Edwin Niblock Lightfoot,Jr. was an American chemical engineer and Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in transport phenomena,including biological mass-transfer processes,mass-transport reaction modeling,and separations processes. He,along with R. Byron Bird and Warren E. Stewart,co-authored the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. In 1974 Lightfoot wrote Transport Phenomena and Living Systems:Biomedical Aspects of Momentum and Mass Transport. He was the recipient of the 2004 National Medal of Science in Engineering Sciences.
Raphael Carl Lee is an American surgeon,medical researcher,biomedical engineer,and entrepreneur.
Per "Åke" Öberg,born 1937 in Härnösand,is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University,Sweden.
William C. Van Buskirk was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark,New Jersey from Oct 1998 to June 2004.,and he retired in December 2011 as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and was the Foundation Professor of Biomechanical Engineering at NJIT.
Daniel Dugan Reneau,Jr. is the former president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston,Louisiana,a position which he filled from July 1,1987,until his retirement effective June 30,2013. He was succeeded by Dr. Les Guice.
Richard P. Lifton is an American biochemist and the 11th and current president of The Rockefeller University. He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from Dartmouth College and in 1986 he got his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. He trained at Brigham and Women's Hospital before starting his lab at Yale in 1993. He has been awarded the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of genes that are associated with the regulation of blood pressure. In 2014 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1994. He was inducted into the National Academy of Science and Institute of Medicine,and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
George Alexander Truskey is an American biomedical engineer noted for his research on transport phenomena in biological systems,cardiovascular tissue engineering,and cell adhesion to natural and synthetic surfaces.
Ravi V. Bellamkonda is a biomedical engineer and provost of Emory University.
John X. J. Zhang is a professor at Thayer School of Engineering of Dartmouth College,and an investigator in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Before joining Dartmouth,he was an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas of Austin. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University,California in 2004,and was a research scientist in systems biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before joining the faculty at UT Austin in 2005. Zhang is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE),and a recipient of the 2016 NIH Director's Transformative Research Award.
Frances S. Ligler is a biochemist and bioengineer who was a 2017 inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Ligler's research dramatically improved the effectiveness of biosensors while at the same time reducing their size and increasing automation. Her work on biosensors made it easier to detect toxins and pathogens in food,water,or when airborne.
Jerome Schultz is an American bioengineering researcher,professor,and university administrator. He is a fellow of several national scientific societies and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has held professorships at the University of Michigan,the University of Pittsburgh,University of California,Riverside,and he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston.
Lakiesha Williams is a biomedical engineer and an Associate Professor at the University of Florida. Williams specializes in traumatic brain injury and biomechanics.