Leary Receives AIMBE's Highest Honor
Professor James F. Leary has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to their College of Fellows. Fellows are recognized by AIMBE as persons who have distinguished themselves in the field of medical and biological engineering.
A professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Leary also serves as a professor of Basic Medical Sciences and is the SVM Professor of Nanomedicine. His research interests include high-throughput and BioMEMS cell analysis and separation technologies for genomics and proteomics (cytomics); high-speed imaging/laser ablation/laser opto-injection technologies for stem cell engineering; and, nanomedicine approaches to cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, antiviral therapies, and regenerative medicine. He earned two undergraduate degrees from MIT, an S.B. in Aeronautics/Astronautics and an S.B. in Humanities (Philosopy/History); a M.S. in Physics from the University of New Hampshire; a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Penn State University; and, he served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Cytometry/Immunology at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
His formal induction will be held on May 1, 2007 at the National Academies of Science in Washington D.C.