BME Named Lectures

BME @ CCNY Named Lecture Series

The Zweifach Lecture

The Zweifach Lecture was initiated in 1999 to honor CCNY alum Benjamin W. Zweifach, PhD, who was a pioneer in bioengineering. Dr. Zweifach received his BS in Biology in 1931 from CCNY. He received MS and PhD degrees in Cellular Physiology from New York University. Dr. Zweifach maintained a world-renowned career in applying engineering methods to study microvasculature. He was a professor of and helped establish one of the nation's first Bioengineering Departments at the University of California at San Diego at the time of his passing in 1997. Dr. Zweifach was bestowed with the prestigious Townsend Harris Medal in 1994.

The invitation to present in this named lecture is among the highest honors our department can give, which is reflected by the world-renowned faculty members which have come before. Those include Nobel Laureates, members of all three National Academies, and other luminaries. The seminar is usually held in the Fall semester of each year.

1999: Y.C. Fung, University of California at San Diego Bioengineering

2000: Peter Davies, University of Pennsylvania Bioengineering

2001: Shu Chien, University of California at San Diego Bioengineering

2002: James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University

2003: Michael Gimbrone, Harvard Medical School

2004: Robert Langer, MIT  [Inauguration of BME @ CCNY]

2005: Robert Nerem, Georgia Tech

2006: Rakesh Jain, Harvard University

2008: Frances Arnold, CalTech

2009: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

2010: Jay Humphrey, Yale University Biomedical Engineering

2011: Roderic Pettigrew, Director of the National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

2012: Don Giddens, Georgia Tech

2013:  Linda Griffith, MIT

2014:  Cato Laurencin, University of Connecticut

2015:  Gerard Ateshian, Columbia University Biomedical Engineering

2016:  Kam Leong, Columbia University Biomedical Engineering

2017:  Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT

2018:  Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto

2019:  Geert Schmid-Schonbein, University of California at San Diego

2022:  Farsh Guilak, Washington University in St. Louis

2023:  Zahi Fayad, Mount Sinai Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute

2024:  Bin He, Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering

SKT Lecture

The SKT Lecture is typically held in each Spring semester.

2002:  Tom Skalak, University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering

2008:  Michael Sacks, University of Pittsburgh

2009:  Frances Ligler, US Naval Research Laboratory

2010:  Ajit Yoganathan, Georgia Tech

2011:  Richard Waugh, University Rochester BME

2012:  Alan Grodzinsky, MIT

2013:  David Burr, Indiana University Biomedical Engineering

2014:  Martha Gray, MIT

2015:  George Truskey, Duke University Biomedical Engineering

2016:  Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University Biomedical Engineering

2017:  Henry Donahue, Virginia Commonwealth University Biomedical Engineering

2019:  Mark Saltzman, Yale University Biomedical Engineering 

2024:  Tejal Desai, Dean of Brown Engineering