Muriel Médard honoured as NAI fellow
Many congratulations to our co-founder Muriel Medard, on being honoured as one of 148 renowned academic inventors to be named as NAI Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors this year 'who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society'
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National Academy of Inventors Announces 2018 Fellows148 academic inventors were honored today with the esteemed distinction of NAI Fellow.
Tampa, Fla. (Dec. 11, 2018) – The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 148 renowned academic inventors to NAI Fellow status.
The 2018 class of Fellows represent 125 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes worldwide and are named inventors on nearly 4,000 issued U.S. patents. To date, there are over 1,000 NAI Fellows who have generated more than 11,000 licensed technologies and companies, created more than 1.4 million jobs, and generated over $190 billion in revenue.
Included among this year’s NAI Fellows are more than 25 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes; 5 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology & Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science; and 3 Nobel Laureates, among other awards and distinctions.
Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. The 2018 class of NAI Fellows has made an incredible impact in a variety of fields, including biomedical engineering, laser photonics and computer sciences.
“Congratulations to the 148 new members of the NAI Fellows program,” said Linda Hosler, Deputy Program Manager at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). “I had the honor of serving on the Fellows Selection Committee, and I am confident that this new class of Fellows will play a vital role in furthering the NAI’s mission and shining a light on the indispensable scientific and economic contributions of the world’s inventors.”
On Apr. 11, 2019, the 2018 NAI Fellows will be inducted as part of the Eighth NAI Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. Andrew Hirshfeld, USPTO Commissioner for Patents, will deliver the keynote address for the induction ceremony. In honor of their outstanding accomplishments, Fellows will receive a special trophy, medal and rosette pin.
“The National Academy of Inventors has elected an exceptional group of diverse inventors who have made an incredible impact on the innovation sphere on a global scale,” said Hirshfeld. “It was my distinct privilege to serve on the NAI Fellows Selection Committee and I look forward to celebrating with the NAI and the newly elected Fellows in April at the Space Center Houston.”
Those elected to the rank of NAI Fellow undergo a rigorous nomination and selection process. Once nominated by their peers, the 2018 class of NAI Fellows was evaluated by the 18 members of the 2018 Selection Committee, which encompassed NAI Fellows; U.S. National Medal recipients; AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors; senior officials from the USPTO, AUTM and the Smithsonian Lemelson Center; National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees and board members; and members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
“I am very proud to welcome another class of outstanding NAI Fellows, whose collective achievements have helped shape the future and who each day work to improve our world,” said Paul R. Sanberg, President of the NAI. “Each of these new NAI Fellows embody the Academy’s mission through their dedication, creativity, and inventive spirit. I look forward to working collaboratively with the new NAI Fellows in growing a global culture of innovation.”
The 2018 NAI Fellows will be highlighted with a full page announcement in the 25 Jan. 2019 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education and in upcoming issues of Technology & Innovation.
The complete list of NAI Fellows is available on the NAI website.
2018 Elected NAI Fellows
● Seth Y. Ablordeppey, Florida A&M University
● Rafi Ahmed, Emory University
● Pulickel M. Ajayan, Rice University
● Rodney C. Alferness, University of California, Santa Barbara
● Emad S. Alnemri, Thomas Jefferson University
● Hal S. Alper, The University of Texas at Austin
● Evelina Angov, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
● Bernard P. Arulanandam, The University of Texas at San Antonio
● Stephen F. Badylak, University of Pittsburgh
● Harrison H. Barrett, The University of Arizona
● Mark A. Barteau, Texas A&M University
● Jacqueline K. Barton, California Institute of Technology
● Susan J. Baserga, Yale University
● Rashid Bashir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
● Frank S. Bates, University of Minnesota
● Michael Bishop, University of California, San Francisco
● Elizabeth H. Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco
● Sylvia M. Blankenship, North Carolina State University
● Robert E. Burrell, University of Alberta
● Ahmed A. Busnaina, Northeastern University
● Yihai Cao, Karolinska Institutet
● Federico Capasso, Harvard University
● Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida
● Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, University of California, Berkeley
● Russell R. Chianelli, The University of Texas at El Paso
● Young I. Cho, Drexel University
● Sang H. Choi, NASA Langley Research Center
● Chih-Chang Chu, Cornell University
● Walter G. Copan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
● Mark S. Cushman, Purdue University
● Karl A. Deisseroth, Stanford University
● Calum J. Drummond, RMIT University
● Lawrence T. Drzal, Michigan State University
● Igor R. Efimov, The George Washington University
● Hesham M. El Gamal, The Ohio State University
● Mary K. Estes, Baylor College of Medicine
● Omid C. Farokhzad, Harvard University
● Mauro Ferrari, Houston Methodist Research Institute
● Alan S. Finkel, Monash University / Australia’s Chief Scientist
● Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University
● Elaine V. Fuchs, The Rockefeller University
● Judy L. Genshaft, University of South Florida
● Durham Kenimer Giles, University of California, Davis
● George T. Gillies, University of Virginia
● Jay R. Goldberg, Marquette University
● Jeffrey I. Gordon, Washington University in St. Louis
● Craig J. Gotsman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
● Linda G. Griffith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
● John L. Hall, University of Colorado Boulder
● Tayyaba Hasan, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
● Gary M. Hieftje, Indiana University
● Cynthia Hipwell, Texas A&M University
● Dean Ho, National University of Singapore
● Peter B. Høj, The University of Queensland
● Robert A. Holton , Florida State University
● Susan Band Horwitz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
● Matthew A. Howard, III, University of Iowa
● Alex Qin Huang, The University of Texas at Austin
● Shu-Yuen Ron Hui, The University of Hong Kong/Imperial College London
● Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut
● Quanxi Jia, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
● Hongxing Jiang, Texas Tech University
● Jingyue Ju, Columbia University
● Kenneth Kaushansky, Stony Brook University
● Pradeep K. Khosla, University of California, San Diego
● Robert P. Kimberly, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
● Joseph W. Kloepper, Auburn University
● Thomas L. Koch, The University of Arizona
● Philip G. Koehler, University of Florida
● Jind?ich Kope?ek, University of Utah
● Sally Kornbluth, Duke University
● William J. Koros, Georgia Institute of Technology
● Adrian R. Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
● Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University
● Joshua LaBaer, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
● Roger A. Laine, Louisiana State University and A&M College
● Edmond J. LaVoie, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
● Abraham P. Lee, University of California, Irvine
● Anna M. Leese de Escobar, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
● Warren J. Leonard, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
● Johannes A. Lercher, Technical University of Munich
● Teik C. Lim, The University of Texas at Arlington
● Craig W. Lindsley, Vanderbilt University/Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience and Drug Discovery
● Elizabeth G. Loboa, University of Missouri, Columbia
● Ted L. Maddess, Australian National University
● Elizabeth M. McNally, Northwestern University
● Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
● Ellis Meng, University of Southern California
● Joachim Messing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
● Lalit K. Mestha, The University of Texas at Arlington
● Lyle R. Middendorf, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
● Shaker A. Mousa, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science
● William P. Murphy, Jr., Florida International University
● William L. Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
● Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina
● Nathan Newman, Arizona State University
● Bert W. O’Malley, Baylor College of Medicine
● Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles
● Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Concordia University
● Drew M. Pardoll, Johns Hopkins University
● Roderic I. Pettigrew, Texas A&M University
● Apparao M. Rao, Clemson Nanomaterials Institute/Clemson University
● Theodore S. Rappaport, New York University
● Rafael Reif, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
● Joshua Rokach, Florida Institute of Technology
● Yoram Rudy, Washington University in St. Louis
● Wheeler Ruml, University of New Hampshire
● Thomas P. Russell, University of Massachusetts Amherst
● Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri University of Science and Technology
● Vinod Sarin, Boston University
● Rahul Sarpeshkar, Dartmouth College
● Steven J. Sasson, University of South Florida
● Christine E. Schmidt, University of Florida
● Zheng John Shen, Illinois Institute of Technology
● Thomas E. Shenk, Princeton University
● Mark B. Shiflett, University of Kansas
● Michael L. Simpson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
● Koji Sode, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
● Costas M. Soukoulis, Iowa State University/Ames Laboratory
● John W. Spirk, Cleveland Clinic
● Gary Stacey, University of Missouri, Columbia
● William Studier, Brookhaven National Laboratory
● Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University
● Koduvayur P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology
● Bruce A. Sullenger, Duke University
● Xiuzhi Susan Sun, Kansas State University
● Jing Sun, University of Michigan
● Yu Sun, University of Toronto
● Wanchun Tang, Virginia Commonwealth University
● Susan S. Taylor, University of California, San Diego
● Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas
● David A. Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
● Don M. Tucker, University of Oregon
● Jeffrey S. Vitter, The University of Mississippi
● Israel E. Wachs, Lehigh University
● Albert Wang, University of California, Riverside
● Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California
● Alan W. Weimer, University of Colorado Boulder
● Louis M. Weiner, Georgetown University
● Robert G. Wilhelm, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
● Yushan Yan, University of Delaware
● Jian Yang, The Pennsylvania State University
● Eui-Hyeok Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology
● Mark H. Yim, The University of Pennsylvania
● Michael J. Yost, Medical University of South Carolina
● James M. Zavislan, University of Rochester
● Ruiwen Zhang, University of Houston
● Huda Y. Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine
