Dr. Cato T. Laurencin is co-lead connected a groundbreaking study connected the possibilities created by the intersection of biology and engineering.
The Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), an inaugural of the National Science Foundation, precocious published a study identifying probe priorities recovered astatine the intersection of biology and engineering. The study entitled “8 Impossible Things” boldly presents challenges to humankind that whitethorn beryllium solved done engineering combined with biology.
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University Professor, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, and Chemical Engineering astatine UConn, co-lead the task with Jake Beal, engineering fellow, Raytheon BBN Technologies.
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin is the laminitis of the tract of Regenerative Engineering and the 2022 recipient of the NAACP Spingarn Medal.“While they are abstracted disciplines, the convergence of biology and engineering has tremendous imaginable to lick immoderate of our top problems,” said Dr. Laurencin astatine the report’s launch. “Collaboration successful probe volition let for the technological assemblage to travel unneurotic and research solutions to immoderate of the biggest problems facing our satellite today.”
Dr. Laurencin’s inheritance bridges engineering and biology. He received his B.S.E. successful chemic engineering from Princeton University, his M.D., Magna Cum Laude from the Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. successful Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology from M.I.T. He received the Pierre Galletti Award, the highest grant of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award, the premier designation of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
He is the archetypal surgeon to beryllium elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. He has received the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award from President Bill Clinton, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama for his enactment bridging engineering and biology successful ceremonies astatine the White House.
The afloat study and enforcement summary tin beryllium recovered here: https://www.ervacommunity.org/visioning-report/leveraging-biology-visioning-report/
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