The American Institute of Physics Publishing Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics and Bioengineering

This weekend at the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, John Wikswo will receive The American Institute of Physics Publishing Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics and Bioengineering. This prize honors a member of the scientific community who has made a substantial contribution at the interface of bioengineering and biophysics.

Wikswo was my PhD advisor when I was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University in the 1980s. He is also a collaborator who I have written many papers with, a close friend, and is the godfather of one of my daughters. In a letter of support for Wikswo’s nomination, I wrote

As the name of your award suggests, John’s research has straddled the fields of physics, engineering, and biology. In summary, I think that John Wikswo’s contributions to biomagnetism, cardiac electrophysiology, and bioMEMS, make him a perfect candidate for the Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics & Bioengineering.

If you’re attending the meeting, Wikswo will give a talk at the Bioengineering Symposium at 8:45 Saturday morning, about “Instrument, Measure, Model, and Control: A Directed Walk Through Things Biological.” 

Congratulations, John!

Strange Ideas that Pay Phenomenal Benefits, a conversation with John WIkswo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRETnYWDlh0