Rebecca Richards-Kortum ( Rebecca Richards-Kortum , born 1964, Nebraska) is an American bioengineer. Member of the American Philosophical Society (2017) [3] , the National Academy of Sciences (2015 [4] ) and the Academy of Engineering (2008) USA. Rice University's Malcolm Gillis University Professor and founding director of his Rice 360 ° Institute for Global Health. US Science Envoy since June 2018. In 2017, it was named among the 50 leading world leaders according to the version of Fortune magazine [5] .
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Biography
She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Bachelor of Physics and Mathematics, 1985). She received a master's degree in physics (1987) and a Ph.D. in medical physics (1990) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2002).
Since 2005, at the State of Rice University, where she headed the Department of Bioengineering and was the director of the Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering, and in 2014 she became the first woman - a university professor ( Malcolm Gillis University Professor ) [6] . He also serves as the Rector’s Advisor and Founding Director of the Rice 360 ° Institute for Global Health.
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015) and the National Academy of Inventors (2014). Fello (2000), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), (2008), Optical Society (2014). Senior Member of IEEE (2007), OSA (2012), SPIE (2016).
The author of more than 315 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 13 chapters in books. Author of the textbook Biomedical Engineering for Global Health ( Cambridge University Press , 2010).
Awards and honors
- Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation (1991)
- Presidential Faculty Fellow, National Science Foundation (1992)
- Becton Dickinson Career Achievement Award, (1992)
- YC Fung Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1999)
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- Chester F. Carlson Award, (2007)
- Vice President Recognition Award, IEEE (2008)
- Pritzker Distinguished Scientist and Lecturer, (2010)
- Celebrating Women in Science Award, BioHouston, Inc. (2011)
- Women Leaders in Medicine Award, (2012)
- Lemelson – MIT Prize (2013)
- Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award of the Optical Society (2014)
- George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, Association of Rice Alumni (2014, 2016)
- Pierre Galletti Award, (2016, first awarded woman) [2]
- McArthur Fellowship (2016) [7]
- Introduced to the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2019) [8]
Links
- https://bioengineering.rice.edu/rebecca-richards-kortum
- Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology, pp. 535-536 .
Notes
- ↑ https://viaf.org/viaf/90464442/#Richards-Kortum,_Rebecca,_1964-
- ↑ 1 2 Richards-Kortum wins prestigious Pierre Galletti Award
- ↑ Rice's Richards-Kortum elected to American Philosophical Society
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 16, 2019. Archived November 20, 2015.
- ↑ Fortune: Richards-Kortum among 'World's Greatest Leaders'
- ↑ Richards-Kortum named University Professor
- ↑ Rice's Rebecca Richards-Kortum named MacArthur Fellow
- ↑ http://news.rice.edu/2019/01/08/rebecca-richards-kortum-named-to-national-inventors-hall-of-fame-2/