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
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University
Contact: Mikael Martino, Associate Professor and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) group leader
BME Specialties: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Immunoengineering, Biomaterial
Fellows or Scholars? Both
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? Both
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (Queensland University of Technology)
Contact: Clayton Adam, Associate Professor
BME Specialties: Orthopaedic biomechanics, Musculoskeletal bioengineering, Bone and Cartilage Tissue
Engineering
Fellows or Scholars? Both
Belgium
Ghent University
Contact: Patrick Segers
Department of Electronics and Information Systems
BME Specialties: Radiation Physics and Medical Imaging;
Computational Methods for Patient-Tailored Medicine and Medical Device Design
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Contact: Jenneifer Patterson, Assistant Professor (former Whitaker Grantee)
Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
BME Specialties: Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
imec
Contact: Jo De Wachter, Outreach Coordinator
BME Specialties: Neuroelectronics, In Vitro Diganostics,
and Nanoparticles and Micro-fluidics for diagnostics and therapeutics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Brazil
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Contact: Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas, Department of Structural Engineering
BME Specialties: Dental Biomechanics, New Devices for Speech Language Pathologies,
Solid Mechanics and Orthopedics
Fellows or Scholars? Both
china
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contact: Pete Shull, Assistant Professor
BME Specialties: Wearable sensing and feedback for clinical intervention,
Conservative knee osteoarthritis treatments, Stroke Rehabilitation
Fellows or Scholars? Both
France
Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
Contact: Abdul Barakat, Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering; Biofluid Mechanics and Transport; Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de St. Etienne
Contact: Rosin Owens, Department of Bioelectronics
BME Specialties: Organic Bioelectronics and Tissue Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Grenoble Institute of Technology/ MINATEC (GRENOBLE)
Contact: Catherine Picart, Full Professor and Group Leader
BME Specialties: Bioengineering; Biophysics; (Nano) Biomaterials; Tissue engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Jorge Almodovar
Institut Curie
Contact: Matthieu Piel, Team Leader, Department of Subcellular Structure and Cellular Dynamics,
Systems Biology of Cell Division and Cell Polarity
BME Specialties: Micro-fabrication for cell biology, including micro-fluids and micro-patterning, biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Universite Paris-Sud 11 (Nano Bio Photonics)
Contact: Niko Hildebrandt, Professor
BME Specialties: FRET, biosensing, live cell imaging, time-resolved miscroscopy,
in vitro diagnostics, quantum dots
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Universite Paris Descartes and ParisTech: Arts et Metier Paris Tech/
ESPCI ParisTech/Mines ParisTech/Telecom ParisTech
Contact: Barbara Dallez, BME-Paris Master Program Coordinator
BME Specialties: Bioimaging, Biomechanics, Molecular and Cellular Biotherapies,
Bioengineering and Innovation in Neurosciences
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Germany
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Contact: Francois Nedelec
BME Specialties: Mathematical modelling in cell biology, biomechanics, cell division
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Fraunhofer IAP (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Contact: Joerg Lahann, Co-Director of the Institute for Functional Interfaces at KIT
BME Specialties: Advanced Polymers and Biomaterials
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Universität Heidelberg
Contact: Dr. Joachim Gerke
BME Specialties: Clinical engineering, Medical Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Organic Electronics, Scientific
Computing and Radiotherapy
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Ireland
Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials, National University of Ireland, Galway
Contact: Abhay Pandit, Professor and Director
BME Specialties: Functional Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Nanotechnology, Bio-polymers, Drug and
Gene Delivery,
Soft Tissue Repair/Regeneration, Biomaterials in Orthopedic and Neural Applications
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 and Current Grantees: Devjani Saha
The Netherlands
Eindhoven University of Technology
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BME Specialities: Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Bioreactors
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Prof. Ton G van Leeuwen, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics
BME Specialties: Biomedical optics: Vascular Physics, Cardiovascular Hemodynamics, Biomedical and
Forensic Photonics,
Medical Imaging, and Image Analysis
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Zenith Acosta Torres, Insitute of Complex Molecular Systems
University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center
Contact: Prof. Ton G van Leeuwen, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics
BME Specialties: Biomedical optics: Vascular Physics, Cardiovascular Hemodynamics, Biomedical and
Forensic Photonics,
Medical Imaging, and Image Analysis
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University of Twente, MIRA, Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine
Contact: Richard van Wezel, Full Professor, Biomedical Signals and Systems
BME Specialties: Neural and Motor Systems
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Yan Zhao
South Africa
University of Cape Town
Contact: Neil Davies, Head Biological Sciences, Cardiovascular Research Unit
BME Specialties: Cardiovascular Biology
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Michelle Sun
Contact: Dr. Tania Douglas, Director, Medical Imaging Research Unit; Biomedical Engineering Programme
BME Specialties: Medical Imaging and Image Computing
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Samuel Pickerill
Contact: Thomas Franz, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of Division, Division of Biomedical Engineering
BME Specialties: Computational biomechanics, cellular mechanobiology, treatment of cardiac diseases
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum and Current Grantees: Renee Miller
Spain
Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC
Contact: Miguel Maravall, Ph.D., CSIC Staff Scientist
BME Specialties: Neural coding; Neural probes for recording and stimulation; fMRI; Deep brain simulation;
Brain plasticity; Sensory transduction;
Computational modelling of sensory pathways
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
Contact: Laia Miralles/Manuela Furkert, Human Resources and Education
BME Specialties: Non-invasive diagnosis, advanced imaging and therapies, advanced multiphoton and fluorescence techniques,
imaging, nanosurgery, neuro-intensive care monitoring, plasmonic oncology and dermatology.
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alumni: Johnny Tam
University CEU San Pablo
Contact: Abraham Otero Quintana, Biomedical Engineering Coordinator
BME Specialties: Signal Processing, Analysis of physiological parameters, Telemonitoring/eHealth, image processing,
Biological algorithms acceleration with GPUs/FPGA
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University of Oviedo
Contact: Juan Cobo Plana, University Clinic of Dentistry
BME Specialties: Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine Research, Transplants and Implants
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Pilar de la Pena. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
BME Specialties: Hormone Receptors and Ion Channels
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Julia Alvarez Guitierrez, Biomedicine and Health Cluster Manager
BME Specialties: The BMH Cluster promotes action in 5 RTD lines at University of Oviedo and
can help students find hosts in i) Genomics and proteomics related with cancer and ageing,
ii) Brain development and degeneration, iii) Biomedicine basic research and drug development,
iv) Regenerative medicine, transplants and implants, v) Food production and food technology.
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
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, Adrian Shieh, Susan Thomas, Jennifer Munson, amongst others
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
Institute for Biomechanics, D-HEST
BME Specialties: Bone, Finite Element Analysis, Cement (contact: Benedikt Helgason, Group Head),
Bone/Cartilage, Micro-CT (contact: Ralph Mueller, Professor),
Intervertebral dics/Cartilage, Cell (mechano-)biology (contact: Karin Wuertz, Group Head)
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Katherine August, Marie Godla, Kathleen Koch, Steven Proulx
Contact: Daniel J. Muller, Professor of Biophysics
BME Specialties: Bionanotechnology, Cell Adhesion and Mechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Contact: Monika Gessler, Head Scientific Affairs, Biozentrum
BME Specialties: Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Infection Biology, Muscle Biology, Stem Cell Biology
and Organogenesis
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Friedrich Miescher Institute for BioMedical Research
Contact: Oliver Fink, Head of HR
BME Specialties: Electrophysiology, Optophysiology/Optogenetics, Biomedical optics, Microscopy, Electron microscopy, Automated behavior,
Programming, Molecular bioology, Engineering of viral tools/synthetic viruses, Molecular sensors, Genetic manipulation.
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University 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 ARab emirates
Khalifa University
Contact: Tim McGloughlin, Chair and Head of Department
BME Specialties: Cardiovascular disease, Genetics, Human movement, Tissue engineering and Regeneration,
Mechanobiology, Physiological signal processing, Aneurysm disease, Biorobotics, and Medical devices.
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
United Kingdom
University College London
Contact: Sergio Bertazzo, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical
Engineering BME Specialties: Biomineralization, orthopaedics, bone,
calcific diseases, cardiac diseases, bioimaging.
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Imperial College, London
Contact: Nick Jones and Mauricio Barahona, Department of Mathematics
BME Specialties: Synthetic and Systems Biology, Biomedical Signal Processing, Network analysis,
Cellular noise and neural processing, Model reduction, Cardio Mathematics, Fluid Phenomena inside tissues
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Daniel Elson
BME Specialties: Surgical imaging, endoscopy, biophotonics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Anne Pigula
Contact: Dr. Simon R Schultz, Department of Bioengineering
BME Specialties: Neural Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars Contact: Sandra Shefelbine, Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering
BME Specialties: Orthopaedic biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
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, Rekha Nair, Randall Platt, Mark Rocco, Mark Steedman, Hannah Watkins
Contact: Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang, Director, The Hamlyn Centre
BME Specialtie: Medical Robotics, Imaging and Sensor Networks
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Kings College London
Contact: David Nordsletten, Lecturer and Nicolas Smith, Professor, Department of Bioengineering and
Imaging Science
BME Specialties: Computational Biomechanics, Fluids and Cardiovascular Imaging
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alumni currently faculty at Kings College: David Nordsletten
Contact: Dr. Eileen Gentleman, Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology
BME Specialties: Tissue Engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials, mechanosensing, stem cells
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Queen`s University of Belfast
Contact: Professor Fraser Buchanan, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomaterials Research Group
BME Specialties: Bioresorbable polymers and ceramics, orthopaedic bone cements, tissue scaffolds
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Contact: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
BME Specialties: Wireless and biomedical signal processing
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
University of Cambridge
Contact: Daniel Wolpert, Professor
BME Specialties: Sensorimotor control, engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
Alum: Alaa Ahmed
Contact: Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
BME Specialties: Systems Biology, Interplay of Cellular Architecture and Signalling, Mesoscopic Spatial
Modelling, Quantitative Microscopy
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
University 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
University of Strathclyde
Contact: Roberto de la Rica, Lecturer in Bionanotechnology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry
BME Specialties: Bionanotechnology, nanosensors for diagnosis, intracellular nanosensors, nanomaterials
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Worldwide (Honduras, Nicaragua, Rwanda and Tanzania)
EuroScholars, GlobaLinks Learning Abroad (partnered with multiple potential and current hosts in Europe)
Contact: Carrie Davis, Manager
BME Specialties: Varies by host institution
Fellows or Scholars: Both
Contact Whitaker Program Staff for more information
Engineering World Health
Contact: Justin Cooper, BMET Manager, Honduras
BME Specialties: Medical Devices, healthcare technology management, international training,
and developing world applications of technology
Fellows or Scholars?: Both