Founded in 1968, BMES is a society formed to promote the increase of biomedical engineering knowledge and its utilization. BMES strives to give equal status to representatives of both biomedical and engineering interests. Fellows must have been members of BMES for five or more years, have actively participated as biomedical engineers in the private or public sector for five or more years and have a demonstrable record of achievement and accomplishment in a specific field of interest within biomedical engineering.
Dr. Diller’s research interests include the frozen banking of human tissues for transplantation, analysis of the micro vascular basis of burn injury and how it may be exploited for the optimization of therapy, development of thermodynamic models of dynamic processes at the microscopic and macroscopic scales in biological systems and computer vision techniques for quantitative measurement and interpretation of microscopic images.
Dr. Diller is chairman of the biomedical engineering department at UT Austin and is the Robert M. and Prudie Leibrock Endowed Professor in Engineering.
Dr. Peppas’ research interests are in the fields of biomaterials, bionanotechnology, molecular recognition processes, feedback controlled biomedical devices, molecular modeling of protein structures in contact with biomaterials and tissues, and controlled drug delivery.
Dr. Peppas is in charge of the Laboratory of Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Bionanotechnology and Molecular Recognition with more than 20 researchers, and is the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering at UT Austin.
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