Van C. Mow 毛昭憲 Election Year 2004 351C Engineering Ter.
Mail Code 8904
1210 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, U.S.A. Tel: (212) 854-8462 / Fax: (212) 854-5117
Current Positions
Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Orthopaedic Bioengineering, Columbia University
Education
B.S and Ph. D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1962), (1966)
Postdoc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, News York university (1967-1968)
Professional Experience
Member of Technical Staff, Division of Engineering Mechanics, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated (1968-69)
Associate Professor of Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1976-82); Professor of Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1969-76)
Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical School (1976-77)
John A Clark and Edward T Crossan Professor of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1982-86)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedic Bioengineering, Columbia University (1986-98)
Director, New York Orthopaedic Hospital Research Laboratory, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1986-02)
Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Columbia University (1995-00)
Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University (1998-)
Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Engineering School, Columbia University (2000-)
Director, Liu Ping Laboratory for Functional Tissue Engineering, Engineering School, Columbia University (2003-)
President's Guest Lecture, Trinity College Center for Bioengineering, Dublin, Ireland (May 8, 2014)
Distinguished Lecture in Biological Engineering, Institute of Bioengineering, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland (April 30, 2014)
Special Guest Lecture, Institte of Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (April 28, 2014)
Special Distinguished Lecture on Biomechanics of Articular Cartilage, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Florida (March 13, 2014)
Institute Lecture on Biomechanics, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne (February 21, 2014)
Distinguished Lecture: Tissue Engineering: Its History and Its Promise; University of Miami Tissue Bank Distinguished Lecture (March 4, 2014)
Keynote Lecture, International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society, San Antonio (January 26, 2013)
Einstein Lecture, 2nd International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences-SIBET, Suzhou, China (November 4, 2011)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(2008, 2012)
Top 10 Mechanical Engineering Graduate from RPI for the Centennial Celebration of the Mechanical Engineering Department (April, 2008)
Biot Heritage Lecture, Columbia University, New York (November 16, 2006)
Davies Medal for Outstanding Alumni Achievements, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (April 6, 2006)
Rensselar Gurley Lecture in Mechanics: Constitutive Modeling of Biological Tissues as a Soft, Charged, Hydrated, Fiber-Reimforced Material - Implications for Tissue Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2006)
Clarence E. Davies Medal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2006)
Named Lectureship: The Van C. Mow Lectures in Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2006)
Honorary Lecturer: Biomedical Engineering for the Year 2020: What Do We See? A New Discipline for the Twenty First Century, First U.S. - Thailand Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand (2005)
Honorary Lecture, First US-Thai Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Bangkok, In Celebration of the 50th Birthday Anniversary of Her Royal Highness Princes Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (2005)
Honorary Member, International Chinese Hard Tissue Society (2005)
Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (2005)
Named ASME Medal: The Van C. Mow Medal for Excellence in Bioengineering (2004)
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2004)
Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2004)
Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University (2004)
Invited Lecture, National Meeting, National Academy of Engineering (2004)
Army Research Office Conference on Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems, Irvine California (2004)
Academic Advisor to Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn for the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Thailand (2003)
Plenary Lecture, Biomechanics and Disease Mechanism, World Congress on OsteoArthritis, Berlin, Germany (2003)
Honorary Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2003)
Keynote Lecture, 2nd National Science Education Seminar, for the Commoration of Her Royal Highness, Crowned Princess Sirindhorn 48th Birthday and the 60th Anniversary of Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand (2003)
Keynote Lecturer, Life Sciences Consortium's Colloquium Series, Pennsylvania State University (2003)
Keynote Lecturer: Role of Biomechanics on Functional Tissue Engineering, First Congress of Chinese Biomechanics, Taipei (2002)
Kroc Foundation Distinguished Lecturer on Osteoarthritis and Tissue Engineering, University of Miami (2002)
Distinguished Lecturer, Steadman-Hawkins Sports Medicine Foundation,Vail, Colorado (2000)
Keynote Lecture, Croucher Advanced Studies Institute, Hong Kong (2000)
Robert H. Thurston Lecture, ASME (1998)
U.S. Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)
1st Stichting World Biomechanics Foundation "Low-Lands" Biomechanica Award, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1996)
HE Cabaud Award, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (1996)
CS Neer Award, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (1996)
College of Fellows, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Founding Member (1992)
US National Academy of Engineering (1991)
Giovani Borelli Award, American Society of Biomechanics (1991)
HR Lissner Award for Contributions to Bioengineering, ASME (1987)