Ren and Yerneni Honored with BMES-CMBE Awards
By Sara Vaccar
The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) recently announced its 2023 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) award winners, and two Carnegie Mellon engineers were named recipients.
Charlie Ren, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was selected for the CMBE Rising Star Award, which recognizes junior faculty members who have made an outstanding impact on the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering. Ren’s lab works at the interface of biomaterial and stem cell engineering, with the goal of providing regenerative therapeutic solutions to repair or replace damaged tissues and organs. His work continues to draw interest and accolade; last year, he was awarded an NSF Career Award, as well as the New Innovator Award for Junior Faculty at the 48th annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference.
Sai Yerneni, a former biomedical engineering Ph.D. student who is continuing his research as a chemical engineering postdoc, received the CMBE Graduate Student Travel Award. This recognition funds a graduate student researcher to attend the 2023 BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference to present their outstanding research in the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.