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Rensselaer Professor Deepak Vashishth Named Fellow of AIMBE
Biomedical Engineering Expert Honored for Work
in Bone and Tissue Engineering
Deepak Vashishth
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Bone and tissue engineering expert Deepak Vashishth, head of
the Department of Biomedical
Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, has been named a fellow of the American
Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
AIMBE cited
Vashishth for “significant contributions to the field” and
profession of biomedical engineering, and having “the
leadership ability to play a transformational role in our field
and in our society.” AIMBE fellows are nominated and elected by
the organization’s College of Fellows, which represents the top
2 percent of the medical and biological engineering
community.
“We offer our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Vashishth. It
is a wonderful and well-earned honor to be recognized by your
professional colleagues at this highest level,” said
David Rosowsky, dean of the School of Engineering
at Rensselaer. “As an elected fellow of the AIMBE, Deepak is
joining a distinguished group of engineering faculty at
Rensselaer who also hold the distinction of fellow in their
professional societies. This is a reflection of the high level
of esteem in which Rensselaer senior faculty are held. Deepak’s
achievement and national recognition shine brightly on the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the entire School of
Engineering.”
At Rensselaer, Vashishth is among the tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine core faculty of the Center for Biotechnology and
Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS). His interdisciplinary
research focus, propelled by more than $5 million in funding
from the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), includes biology and hard tissue mechanics, cellular
control of tissue growth and development, mechanobiology of
skeletal tissue regeneration, and fatigue fractures of long
bones. Through cellular and tissue-level studies, Vashishth
investigates and identifies age-related changes in the
biological and mechanical characteristics of skeletal tissues.
He also endeavors to develop microenvironments that are
conducive to functional tissue engineering of bone.
Since joining the Institute in 1999, Vashishth has won
several awards, including the 2002 Outstanding Professor Award
from the Rensselaer Interfraternity Greek Council and the 2002
Rensselaer Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2003, he received
the Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Award and in 2005
received the Rensselaer Class of 1951 Outstanding Teaching
Award.
The author of more than 48 peer-reviewed papers, Vashishth
is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of
the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, and a
permanent member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
study section on skeletal biology and skeletal regeneration. He
regularly serves as a member of special emphasis panels for the
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Research,
and is a reviewer for the national research organizations of
Austria, France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Vashishth received his bachelor’s degree from the Malviya
National Institute of Technology in 1989, and went on to earn
his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at West Virginia
University in 1992, and doctorate in biomedical materials from
the University of London in 1997. He joined Rensselaer’s School
of Engineering in 1999, after serving for two years as a
postdoctoral research fellow in bone biomechanics and biology
at the Bone and Joint Research Center in the Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
For more information on the Vashishth’s research at
Rensselaer, visit:
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Published
December 1,
2011 |
Contact: Michael Mullaney
Phone: (518) 276-6161
E-mail: mullam@rpi.edu |
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