Engineering distinction
Photos by Evan Krape March 25, 2024
April Kloxin has been inducted to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
April Kloxin, the Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Development Professor with appointments in the College of Engineering’s departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering has been named to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions for medical and biological engineers. Fellows are comprised of the top 2% of engineers in these fields who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering and medicine research, practice or education” and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.”
Kloxin was nominated and elected by her peers, as well as current members of the AIMBE College of Fellows, “for outstanding contributions to the design and application of bio-inspired soft materials for dynamically controlling and probing cellular microenvironments.” She was inducted into the Class of 2024 AIMBE College of Fellows along with 162 of her esteemed colleagues during a formal ceremony at the AIMBE Annual Event.
“I look forward to serving in AIMBE to help achieve its important mission of advancing excellence in medical and biological engineering and advocating for science and medical innovation,” Kloxin said.
The April Kloxin group works at the interface of engineering, materials and biology. Their overarching goal is to understand the biological mechanisms of injury, aging and disease progression to find new tissue regeneration strategies and disease treatments. To do this, they design and use unique biomaterials that can mimic soft tissues, including “bioprinters” and 3D cell cultures, so they can gain deeper insights than traditional cell culture models can provide.
“Professor Kloxin is an inspiring and well-recognized leader in the biomimetic design of soft materials, and I am thrilled that April’s innovative research program and commitment to mentorship and advocacy have been recognized in her election as an AIMBE Fellow,” said LaShanda Korley, Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Candidates for election must be nominated by an existing AIMBE Fellow. Korley, who was elected to AIMBE in 2020, nominated Kloxin.
Kloxin is also the recipient of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Arthur K. Doolittle Award and Young Investigator Honoree, the Komen Career Catalyst Research Award, and the Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences. She holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master’s and bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University.
Kloxin joins 18 other UD faculty members (past and current) who have been inducted as AIMBE fellows; these include E. Terry Papoutsakis (1993), Abraham M. Lenhoff (2003), Prasad Dhurjati (2004), David C. Martin (2005), Thomas Buchanan and Kelvin Lee (2010), Kristi Kiick (2012), Dawn M. Elliott (2013), Randall L. Duncan and Millicent Sullivan (2017), Maciek R. Antoniewicz (2018; now at the University of Michigan), Jill Higginson (2019), LaShanda Korley (2020), Thomas Epps (2021), and Wilfred Chen, Emily Day, Darrin Pochan and Liyun Wang (2022).
About AIMBE
The mission of AIMBE, the authoritative voice and advocate for the value of medical and biological engineering to society, is to recognize excellence, advance public understanding, and accelerate medical and biological innovation drives advocacy initiatives into action on Capitol Hill and beyond.
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