BAM Associate Editor Ke Cheng wins 2024 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Award
Published 11 October, 2024
We are proud to announce that Bioactive Materials Associate Editor Ke Cheng wins 2024 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Award. He will also give a speech entitled "Minimally invasive delivery of therapeutics to the heart with biomaterials and devices" at this year’s 2024 BMES Annual Meeting in Baltimore on October 25 at 1:00 p.m..
Editor-in-Chief Jian Yang also won this award in 2023. (check the news here: https://www.bmes.org/news/2023-award-winners).
Dr. Cheng is the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Prior to that, he was the Randall B. Terry, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. He served as the Chair of the NIH Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI) study section (2022-2024). He also co-directed the NIH Comparative Molecular Medicine T32 Training Program and served as the Executive Director of Interdisciplinary Scholarship in NC State’s Office of the Provost. He is one of the “2023 highly cited researchers” based on Clarivate. Research from Dr. Cheng’s lab has been summarized in publications in Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Translational Medicine, Circulation Research, European Heart Journal, and more.
Dr. Cheng is a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), International Association of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the American Heart Association (AHA). Additionally, he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Extracellular Vesicle (Elsevier) and Associate Editor for Bioactive Materials. Dr. Cheng has been devoted to the clinical application of stem cells and exosomes. He led several Investigational New Drug (IND) applications obtained from the FDA. The biotech companies he founded are developing cell and extracellular vesicle therapies, biomaterials, and devices to provide better solutions for lung and heart regeneration, cancer therapy, and drug delivery.
About the Award
The Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation Award recognizes achievements of an individual who is integrally involved in the development of a biomedical device, diagnostic test/device or combination device drug/device in industry.
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