Potential Hosts
Hosts for previous Whitaker grantees are often willing to host future Whitaker grantees. Below is an incomplete list of potential hosts that are willing to take on additional Whitaker Fellows and/or Scholars.
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Australia
Centre for Neural Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Contact: Jonathan Manton, Professor
BME Specialties: Neural Engineering, Signal Processing for Auditory/Visual Pathways, Neural Networks
Fellows or Scholars? BothVision CRC Australia - Institute for Eye Research
Contact: Eric Papas, Director of Postgraduate Studies
BME Specialties: Research and Development
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Stephanie Delgado
France
Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
Contact: Abdul Barakat, Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering; Biofluid Mechanics and Transport; Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Germany
Fraunhofer IAP (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research)
Contact: Dr. Niko Hildebrandt
BME Specialties: Nano-biotechnological applications, including but not limited to in-vitro diagnostics, nano-biological quantum dot FRET systems and confocal/multiphoton imaging
Fellows or Scholars?: ScholarsUniversität Heidelberg
Contact: Dr. Joachim Gerke
BME Specialties: Clinical engineering, Medical Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Organic Electronics, Scientific Computing and Radiotherapy
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Ireland
Centre for Applied Biomedical Engineering Research (CABER), University of Limerick
Contact: Tim McGloughlin, Professor and Director
BME Specialties: Computational and experimental modelling of vascular systems, vascular flows, aneurysm modelling and treatment
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Italy
Italian Institute of Technology
Contact: Pietro Morasso, Senior Scientist
BME Specialties: Neural control of movement; motor learning; neuromotor rehabilitation; robot training
Fellows or Scholars?: Both, at least 12 months stay
Alum: Devjani Saha
South Africa
University of Cape Town
Contact: Dr. Tania Douglas, Director, Medical Imaging Research Unit; Biomedical Engineering Programme
BME Specialties: Medical Imaging and Image Computing
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Samuel Pickerill
Switzerland
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Contact: Melody Schwartz, Associate Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Karen Dane, Bill Diplas, Brandon Dixon, Jeffrey RIce, Adrian Shieh, Susan ThomasETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
Contact: Ralph Mueller, Professor
BME Specialties: Biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Katherine August, Kathleen Koch, Steven ProulxUniversity Hospital Basel
Contact: Ivan Martin, Professor, Head of Tissue Engineering
BME Specialties: Tissue engineering, specifically bone and cartilaginous tissues
Fellows or Scholars?: Fellows
Alum: Devin Bridgen
United Kingdom
Imperial College, London
Contact: Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine & the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
BME Specialties: Biomedial materials and regenerative medicine
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Kristy Cloyd, Gregory Goldgof, Ryan PedrigiContact: Sandra Shefelbine, Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering
BME Specialties: Orthopaedic biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Kristy CloydQueen's University of Belfast
Contact: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
BME Specialties: Wireless and biomedical signal processing
Fellows or Scholars?: ScholarsUniversity of Cambridge
Contact: Daniel Wolpert, Professor
BME Specialties: Sensorimotor control, engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
Alum: Alaa AhmedUniversity of Salford
Contact: Dave Howard, Professor and Laurence Kenney, Senior Research Fellow - Centre for Health, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences
BME Specialties: Gait biomechanics, upper and lower limb prosthetics, functional electrical stimulation
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Matthew Major