Srinivas Sridhar, University Distinguished Professor of Physics, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering at Northeastern, who has led pioneering research and education initiatives in the field of nanomedicine, has received the 2016 Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity Award.
The award, which was presented earlier this month, honors recipients for their outstanding contributions to improving gender and racial diversity in biomedical engineering. “This award recognizes the work I’ve been doing for the past 10 years, a path motivated by spreading knowledge and breaking down barriers to access of knowledge,” Sridhar said.
A year ago Sridhar and colleague Thomas Webster, the Art Zafiropoulo Chair in Engineering and the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, received a National Science Foundation grant to launch the Nanomedicine Academy of Minority Serving Institutions. The initiative builds upon Sridhar’s work over the past decade to grow Northeastern’s robust research portfolio and curricula in nanotechnology and nanomedicine and is designed as means of training a diverse workforce focused on bringing nanotechnology solutions to medicine.
