The National Academy of Inventors has announced that UW–Madison researchers David Beebe, Guang-Hong Chen, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka have been named to its 2023 class of fellows.
Election as an academy fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors, and the 2023 class comprises 162 distinguished academic fellows. Collectively, the 2023 fellows hold over 4,600 U.S. patents.
UW–Madison’s three new fellows bring the university’s total representation to 18.
Beebe, professor of biomedical engineering and professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, leads the multidisciplinary Microtechnology, Medicine, and Biology Lab. He also is a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and is a member of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Chen, professor of medical physics and radiology and recipient of the WARF Named Professorship and Kellett Mid-career Faculty Award, is renowned for his contributions in medical imaging.
Kawaoka, professor of virology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, is the director of the Influenza Research Institute. He is also a professor at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo.
Additional information on each of the three new fellows is available here.
