The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced that Professor Victor G. J. Rodgers has been elected as into the prestigious AIMBE College of Fellows. Founded in 1991, AIMBE is recognized as the leading advocacy group for medical and biological engineering and is comprised by some of the most important leaders in science and engineering.

Professor Rodgers' primary contribution is in the area of dynamic membrane separations for bioprocesses. With his method, solute transport during ultrafiltration could be enhanced by up to two orders-of-magnitude. The method is now used today by pharmaceutical and other companies to interested in recovering valuable product during separations. He also developed models for prediction of the osmotic pressure of concentrated protein solutions (crowded protein solutions) that accurately predicts the pressure change due to increased protein concentration. Unlike other models that assume non-ideality is dominated by protein-protein interaction, his laboratory demonstrated that consideration of protein-solution interactions dominate the observed physics of crowded protein osmotic pressure. In addition, he has also worked to make the fields of engineering more inclusive through both organizations and grass root efforts.

The election of Rodgers into AIMBE brings the senior faculty in Bioengineering at the University of California Riverside to 100% for those of whom are in the prestigious College of Fellows. Last year, Professors Anvari and Morikis were elected into the College. Distinguished Professor Jerome S. Schultz and Adjunct Professor Paul Citron are both Founding Fellows of AIMBE.

The induction ceremony for Rodgers will be held February 11-13, 2009 during AIMBE's Annual Event at the National Academies of Science in Washington, D.C.