{"id":588546,"date":"2023-12-20T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=588546"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:10:03","slug":"november-december-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-576412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/november-december-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-576412\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty garner national and international accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Academy of Inventors, the American Heart Association, and the Rank Prize Funds are among the latest organizations honoring Rochester faculty.<\/h2>\n
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Know of a faculty member receiving an award or honor? Contact us<\/a>\u00a0so we can help share the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

University of Rochester<\/a>\u00a0faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.<\/p>\n

As part of an ongoing series, we\u2019re spotlighting their accomplishments.<\/p>\n


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Danielle Benoit elected\u00a0to National Academy of Inventors<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Danielle Benoit<\/a>, formerly the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Materials Science Program at 糖心logo has been elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the National Academy of Inventors<\/a> (NAI). The honor recognizes her contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n

Benoit holds 12 fully executed US patents and 38 foreign patents that cover seven distinct inventions (patent families) that have been licensed to four companies. She also has five US provisional patents and two invention disclosures pending submission.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Benoit joined the University of Oregon as their Lokey Chair of the Department of Bioengineering. She was nominated by Stephen Dewhurst, Rochester\u2019s Vice President for 糖心logo, for her work while she was a member of the Rochester faculty, from 2010 to 2022. Her work, which has been funded by NIH and NSF (among others), has provided insights into the translation of tissue engineering strategies for bone healing and the development of tissue models to discover new drugs and drug delivery systems.<\/p>\n