Omid Veiseh, Rice Biotech Launch Pad Faculty Director, Inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows

HOUSTON, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university's health and medical technology discoveries into cures, announced today that Omid Veiseh, the Launch Pad's faculty director and professor of bioengineering at Rice University, was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows for "advancement of cell-based therapeutics toward developing transformative medicines for treating cancer, metabolic diseases, Type-1 diabetes, and inflammatory disorders."

Dr. Veiseh's induction ceremony took place Monday, March 31, at 10:45 a.m. ET at the Renaissance Capital View Hotel in Arlington, VA, during the AIMBE Annual Event. His induction included 171 additional colleagues who joined him in forming the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2025. Dr. Veiseh was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows.

"I am deeply grateful to my colleagues who elected me to the prestigious AIMBE College of Fellows," said Dr. Omid Veiseh, faculty director of the Rice Biotech Launch Pad and professor of bioengineering at Rice University. "This recognition reflects the collective efforts of our research team and collaborators down in Houston in developing innovative cell-based therapeutics. Not only does this acknowledge our progress, but it also serves as a motivation to further advance transformative medicines through the Launch Pad, with the goal of meaningfully impacting the lives of patients worldwide."

AIMBE Fellows are among the most distinguished medical and biological engineers, including 4 Nobel Prize laureates and 27 Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation awardees. Additionally, 233 Fellows have been inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 120 inducted to the National Academy of Medicine, and 51 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences. For more information about AIMBE, please visit www.aimbe.org.

About the Rice Biotech Launch Pad: 

The Rice Biotech Launch Pad is a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of Rice University's health and medical technology discoveries into cures. This initiative is designed to help advance internally discovered platform technologies from concept to clinical studies and commercialization. The Rice Biotech Launch Pad will identify and support highly differentiated projects while driving the expansion of Houston as a world-class medical innovation ecosystem. The accelerator will bring together local researchers with a network of industry executives. For more information, please visit https://biotechlaunchpad.rice.edu/.

About Rice:

Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Texas, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of architecture, business, continuing studies, engineering and computing, humanities, music, natural sciences and social sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Internationally, the university maintains the Rice Global Paris Center, a hub for innovative collaboration, research and inspired teaching located in the heart of Paris. With 4,776 undergraduates and 4,104 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is just under 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice is ranked No. 1 for lots of race/class interaction and No. 7 for best-run colleges by the Princeton Review. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by the Wall Street Journal and is included on Forbes' exclusive list of "New Ivies."

About AIMBE

AIMBE is the authoritative voice and advocate for the value of medical and biological engineering to society. AIMBE's mission is to recognize excellence, advance public understanding, and accelerate medical and biological innovation. No other organization brings together academic, industry, government, and scientific societies to form a highly influential community advancing medical and biological engineering. AIMBE's mission drives advocacy initiatives into action on Capitol Hill and beyond.

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