{"id":168403,"date":"2025-10-20T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=168403"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:42:15","slug":"biomedical-engineer-christopher-chen-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/10\/20\/biomedical-engineer-christopher-chen-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomedical Engineer Christopher Chen Elected to National Academy of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/christopher-chen-m-d-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christopher Chen<\/a>, the William F. Warren Distinguished Professor of BME and MSE has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Chen is the founding director of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/kilachandcenter\/the-centers\/biological-design-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU\u2019s Biological Design Center<\/a>, which studies cells and biological systems with the goal of better controlling them to benefit human health and the environment. His research could lead to lifesaving new regenerative medicines to treat disease. The founder of three successful biomedical businesses, Chen was also recently named a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/christopher-chen-elected-a-national-academy-of-inventors-fellow\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Academy of Inventors Fellow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Being elected to the National Academy of Medicine is a testament to Christopher Chen\u2019s visionary research and his unwavering commitment to creating technologies that serve humanity. His work embodies the very spirit of convergence \u2014 combining engineering with medicine to solve some of the most complex challenges facing society today.<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Elise Morgan, Dean, College of Engineering<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To read the full announcement, visit BU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/christopher-chen-national-academy-of-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Brink<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Chen, the William F. Warren Distinguished Professor of BME and MSE has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":165602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,257,899,1068,909],"tags":[354,1405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168559,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168403\/revisions\/168559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}