Celebrating BME Faculty and Student Awards for Spring 2025
Duke BME faculty and students garnered a wide array of impressive awards and recognition over the academic year
Faculty Awards
- Ashutosh Chilkoti won the 2025 Technology Innovation and Development Award from the Society for Biomaterials
- Charles Gersbach made this year’s list of “Most Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate and received an Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Scholar Award
- Kathy Nightingale received the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine’s William J. Fry Memorial Lecture award
- Amanda Randles won the Inaugural Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- Junjie Yao was named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and was elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
- John Hickey received the Young Investigator Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program
Student Awards
Benjamin Perry, Trina Nguyentu, Noah Campbell, Jorik Stoop, Marianne Voight and Helena Hall-Thomsen were named NSF Graduate Fellowship Winners. Coban Brooks, Morgan McCloud, Sarah Mekha, Alyssa Pederson, and Srinath Seshadri received honorable mentions.
- Kevin Shores received an F31 Fellowship
- Paris Brown was named an Impact Neuroscience Program Fellow
- Cadmus Yeo received a Rhodes Fellowship
- Lauren Lederer was awarded the Duke TAST Fellowship
- Amanda Barretto received the HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
- Jingyi Zhu received an American Heart Association predicted fellowship
- Kyungdo Kim was a finalist and Duke institutional nominee for the Apple PhD Fellowship and the Google PhD Fellowship
- Helena Freire Haddad won the Katherine Goodman Stern Fellowship