Joy Inducted Into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Abraham Joy, professor and chair of the Department of Bioengineering, has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows “for seminal innovations in the design, fabrication and translation of synthetic biomimetic biomaterials into novel therapeutic and diagnostic medical products.”
Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top 2% of engineers in these fields. College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering and medicine research, practice, or education” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.”
BioE Professor and Chair Abraham Joy (middle) is inducted into the AIMBE 2025 College of Fellows.
A formal induction ceremony was held during the AIMBE Annual Event at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on March 31, 2025. Joy was inducted along with 171 colleagues who make up the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2025. While most AIMBE Fellows hail from the United States, the College of Fellows has inducted Fellows representing more than 30 countries. AIMBE Fellows are employed in academia, industry, clinical practice, and government. AIMBE Fellows are among the most distinguished medical and biological engineers including 4 Nobel Prize laureates and 27 Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation awardees. Additionally, 233 Fellows have been inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 120 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine, and 51 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.
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