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Three University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering researchers have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for 2021.
Hien Nguyen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Chair, William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Gangbing Song, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering, are among 61 academic inventors from around the country chosen for the prestigious honor for their remarkable innovation-producing technologies and growing success in patents, licensing and commercialization. This national distinction honoring the research and scholarship of Drs. Nguyen, Rimer and Song is emblematic of the reputation for innovation fostered at the Cullen College of Engineering, said Paula Myrick Short, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UH. I congratulate these three outstanding faculty membe
Three Harvard professors were among 106 new members elected this year to the National Academy of Engineering, the academy announced Tuesday.
Those selected included Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Francis J. Doyle III, bioengineering professor Donald E. Ingber, and Harvard Kennedy School professor William W. Hogan.
Founded in 1964, the NAE uses the expertise of its members to advise the federal government on matters related to engineering and technology. Election to the NAE is “among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer,” per its website.
Doyle, Ingber, and Hogan will join the Academy’s 2,352 other American members and 298 international members.
February 4, 2021
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Iwao Ojima, distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, has been elected as a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). He will be honored at the induction ceremony of new members at EurASc’s Annual Symposium and Ceremony of Awards event this April at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, which will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Distinguished Professor Iwao Ojima
Throughout his research career, Dr. Ojima has had numerous ties to the European scientific community. He was first recognized by European chemistry communities in organometallic chemistry, catalysis and fluorine chemistry, prior to joining the faculty at Stony Brook. He has held two sabbaticals at universities in Lyon and Paris, and his inventions on natural product-based anticancer agents were licensed to both French and Italian pharmaceutical companies. Over the years, Dr. Ojima has had a good number of French, Italian
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Invaio Sciences, Inc., a Flagship Pioneering company focused on unlocking the potential of the planet s interdependent natural systems to solve pressing agriculture, nutrition and environmental challenges, announces today the appointment of new academic leaders as members to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). We are delighted to announce a distinguished group of star scholars of the systems of nature, who are joining our Scientific Advisory Board, says Gerardo Ramos, Invaio s Chief Scientific Officer. Invaio is tackling unsolved problems in agriculture with novel targeted approaches that deliver natural biological active molecules and solutions in balance with natural systems. When digitized at the macro- and micro-levels using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, we are just at the cliff of vast breakthrough. The contribution of Invaio s new SAB members of
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Joyce Wong Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Joyce Wong’s career as an inventor began with-and was inspired by-a pair of painful personal events. While she was pursuing her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her grandfather succumbed to cancer and, shortly thereafter, her father suffered a nonfatal heart attack.
“At the time, I was working with biomaterials and studying their interactions with cells,” says Wong, a Boston University College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering. “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, maybe the research I can do will really make a difference. ”