Our video series celebrating the outstanding 2025 BMES award recipients and innovators whose work is shaping the future of biomedical engineering continues.
Today’s spotlight features Princess Imoukhuede, BMES Member, Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair of Bioengineering, and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, and recipient of the Social Impact Award at the 2025 BMES Annual Meeting.
Through her work in research, mentorship, and community building, Imoukhuede continues to champion a vision of biomedical engineering rooted in accessibility, impact, and service.
In our featured article, “Where Science Meets Service: Princess Imoukhuede’s Approach to Impact,” Imoukhuede reflects on the role of community in engineering, the importance of tackling high-impact challenges, and why service should remain central to the field.
Read the full story and watch her 2025 BMES lecture, “First Principles: How We Truly Measure Success in Biomedical Engineering,” to hear her perspective firsthand. Read More
The BMES Mentorship Program is an annual mentor–mentee matching initiative designed to connect BMES members across career stages through guided, meaningful professional relationships. Led by the Student Affairs Subcommittee, the program pairs mentors and mentees based on shared interests, career goals, and areas of expertise to support growth in research, leadership, career exploration, graduate education, and professional development. Participants also receive mentorship resources and conversation guides throughout the year to help foster impactful connections within the biomedical engineering community.
We are also accepting applications for special sessionsfor the 2026 Annual Meeting.
What is a Special Session?
Special sessions should be timely and relevant topics of interest to attendees that do not fit within an existing technical track and often include:
Committee Meetings and Special Interest (SIG) meetings/events
Non-Technical Lectures and Panel Discussions
Symposiums
Awards and Social Events
Workshops
All technical sessions must be submitted through the General Abstract, Late-Breaking or Undergraduate submission process.
Who Can Apply?
Any BMES Member, Committee, or Special Interest Group (SIG), in good standing or an Affiliate with a current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or partnership agreement with BMES interested in holding a Special Session at the BMES Annual Meeting must submit a Special Session request by May 15, 2026. BMES cannot accept requests submitted after the deadline.
Special Session Application Deadline: May 15, 2026
The BMES Board of Directors is asking members to review and approve a set of proposed revisions to the organization’s bylaws. These revisions are intended to support a more nimble association.
The ballot will remain open until May 15th, 2026. BMES members eligible to vote should have received an email from AssociationVoting to access the ballot.
If you have questions that are not addressed in the materials, contactmembership@bmes.org.
BMES has launched American Health Discovery — a nationwide campaign to raise the awareness of how America sees biomedical engineering. Timed to coincide with America’s 250th birthday, the campaign aims to collect 250 stories spanning patient outcomes, research breakthroughs, and product innovations. Our goal also is the designation of a national Biomedical Engineering Day. This is our moment to make the field impossible to ignore. Visit americanhealthdiscovery.orgto join the movement.
The April issue of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering features research from the Bordeleau lab exploring how bladder cancer cell contractility relates to invasiveness across five cell lines. Additional articles examine liver spheroid toxicology reproducibility, ECM stiffness in papillary thyroid carcinoma, graphene nanoplatelets for preventing foam cell formation, and a review on cardiac tissue fibrosis and potential therapies.Read More
From the BMES Journal Cardiovascular Engineering & Technology:
By Nasir A. Shah, Calvin D. Li, Shannon D. Thomas, Ramon L. Varcoe, Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, Carmine Gentile, Zoltan H. Endre, Tracie J. Barber, Jonathan H. Erlich & Blake J. Cochran
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 10% of adults worldwide and is associated with rising mortality and increasing demand for hemodialysis. Hemodialysis requires durable vascular access, with surgically created arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) being the preferred modality. However, up to 60% of AVFs fail to mature in time for clinical use, whereas others develop excessively high flow that can drive adverse cardiac remodeling and heart failure. These problems reflect incomplete understanding of the biological and biomechanical processes that govern AVF maturation and failure. Read More
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