Potential Hosts

Hosts for previous Whitaker grantees are often willing to host future Whitaker grantees. Below is an incomplete list of potential hosts that are willing to take on additional Whitaker Fellows and/or Scholars.

By contacting one of the potential hosts below, there is no guarantee that the host will get back to you (or host you), but they have volunteered to share this information on the Whitaker Program website. If you would like to contact one of these hosts, please let us know, and we will immediately forward your message to them.

Australia

Vision CRC Australia - Institute for Eye Research

Contact: Eric Papas, Director of Postgraduate Studies
BME Specialties: Research and Development
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Stephanie Delgado

France

Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)

Contact: Abdul Barakat, Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering; Biofluid Mechanics and Transport; Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both

Germany

Fraunhofer IAP (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research)

Contact: Dr. Niko Hildebrandt
BME Specialties: Nano-biotechnological applications, including but not limited to in-vitro diagnostics, nano-biological quantum dot FRET systems and confocal/multiphoton imaging
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars

Italy

Italian Institute of Technology

Contact: Pietro Morasso, Senior Scientist
BME Specialties: Neural control of movement; motor learning; neuromotor rehabilitation; robot training
Fellows or Scholars?: Both, at least 12 months stay
Alum: Devjani Saha

Switzerland

EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)

Contact: Melody Schwartz, Associate Professor
BME Specialties: Bioengineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Brandon Dixon, Adrian Shieh, Susan Thomas

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)

Contact: Ralph Mueller, Professor
BME Specialties: Biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Kathleen Koch

University Hospital Basel

Contact: Ivan Martin, Professor, Head of Tissue Engineering
BME Specialties: Tissue engineering, specifically bone and cartilaginous tissues
Fellows or Scholars?: Fellows
Alum: Devin Bridgen

United Kingdom

Imperial College, London

Contact: Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine & the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
BME Specialties: Biomedial materials and regenerative medicine
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Kristy Cloyd

Contact: Sandra Shefelbine, Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering
BME Specialties: Orthopaedic biomechanics
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Kristy Cloyd

Queen's University of Belfast

Contact: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
BME Specialties: Wireless and biomedical signal processing
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars

University of Cambridge

Contact: Daniel Wolpert, Professor
BME Specialties: Sensorimotor control, engineering
Fellows or Scholars?: Scholars
Alum: Alaa Ahmed

University of Salford

Contact: Dave Howard, Professor and Laurence Kenney, Senior Research Fellow - Centre for Health, Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences
BME Specialties: gait biomechanics, upper and lower limb prosthetics, functional electrical stimulation
Fellows or Scholars?: Both
Alum: Matthew Major