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Kenneth R. Lutchen
Kenneth R. Lutchen is Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University College of Engineering. He is the principal investigator of a $14-million Leadership Award from the Whitaker Foundation, and he is also principal investigator on an NIH Pre-Doctoral Graduate Student Training Grant in Quantitative Biology and Physiology. For the past 20 years Dr. Lutchen has directed the department’s Senior Project Program. Dr. Lutchen has been the recipient of the College of Engineering’s Professor of the Year Award and the Biomedical Engineering Professor of the Year Award, both elected by students. Dr. Lutchen’s current research focuses on advanced novel experimental and computational-based methods for probing the structure-function relations governing lung disease, particularly asthma, emphysema, and ventilator-induced lung injury. He has 95 journal publications, has patented new methods to perform mechanical ventilation, and has given nearly 50 invited talks. His research is funded by NIH, NSF, and private industry.
Dr. Lutchen was elected to the executive board of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Academic Council in 2002 as Secretary/Treasurer. He has also served as Chair of the Academic Council of AIMBE, on the board of directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and as President of the Council of Chairs in (Undergraduate) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering. He also has served on advisory boards for the Whitaker Foundation, NSF, and NIH, and for several bioengineering departments nationwide. Dr. Lutchen is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. He received his B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Virgina in 1977 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1980 and 1983, respectively.