James McGrath,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor McGrath holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State (BS) and MIT (MS) and earned a PhD in Biological Engineering from Harvard/MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1998. He then trained as a Distinguished Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Since 2001, Professor McGrath has been on the Biomedical Engineering faculty at the University of Rochester (UR). He leads the Nanomembrane Research Group (NRG), a highly interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team that includes industry and academia. Professor McGrath is a co-founder, current director, and past president of SiMPore Inc., a company founded in 2007 to commercially manufacture silicon nanomembranes. In 2015 Professor McGrath was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He was awarded the Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award from the School of Engineering in 2019 and was named a Dean's Professor of Arts Sciences and Engineering in 2022. He has 12 issued and pending patents and more than 100 scientific publications.
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