Danielle Benoit elected to National Academy of Inventors
Danielle Benoit, formerly the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Materials Science Program at Rochester, has been elected to the 2023 class of fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The honor recognizes her contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.
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.
In 2022, Benoit joined the University of Oregon as their Lokey Chair of the Department of Bioengineering. She was nominated by Stephen Dewhurst, Rochester’s Vice President for Research, 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.
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