Audience listening to the 2019 Maroney-Bryan lecturer

Maroney-Bryan Lecture

Maroney-Bryan Lecture in Biomedical Engineering & Innovation

From 2010 to today, the Biomedical Engineering Department at UC Davis has invited standout innovators to share their entrepreneurial journey at the annual Maroney-Bryan Distinguished Lecture. This seminal series highlights how researchers in biomedical engineering, medicine, and biotechnology have created solutions of a different caliber and translated them to industry to bring a sustainable, healthier and more resilient world within reach. 

2024 Lecture Details

Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D.

Thursday, Nov. 21
4–5 p.m.
Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility

Cocktail reception to follow

Previous Speakers

  • 2010: Thomas Fogarty, Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery (Stanford University)
  • 2011: Leroy Hood, President and co-founder, Institute for Systems Biology
  • 2012: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Professor, Bioengineering (Rice University); Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Rice University); Founder, Beyond Traditional Borders; Director, Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health Technology
  • 2013: Paul Yock, Professor of Medicine and Director of Biodesign, Stanford University; Founding Co-Chair of Stanford University Department of Bioengineering
  • 2014: Bruce Rosen, Professor, Radiology (Harvard Medical School); Professor, Health Science and Technology (Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  • 2015: Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor, Chemistry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering (North Carolina State University); Professor, Chemistry (UNC); CEO Carbon3D
  • 2016: Fred Dinger, CEO, Aerin Medical
  • 2017: John Gore, Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine, Vanderbilt University; Professor, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (Vanderbilt University); Director, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science
  • 2018: Stanton Rowe, Chief Scientific Officer and Corporate Vice President of Advanced Technology, Edwards Lifesciences; UC Davis BME External Advisory Board Member
  • 2019: Jennifer Elisseeff, Morton Goldberg Professor, Biomedical Engineering (Johns Hopkins); Director, Translational Tissue Engineering Center (Johns Hopkins)
  • 2020: Pamela Munster, Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), UCSF; Director, Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit, Co-Leader of the Center for BRCA Research, and Co-Leader Molecular Oncology Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • 2021: Hedvig Hricak, Chair, Department of Radiology, Carroll and Milton Petrie Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 2022: Josh Makower, MD, Boston Scientific Applied Bioengineering Professor of Medicine and of Bioengineering at the Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering, and is the Director and Co-Founder of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Founder of Stanford’s Biodesign Policy Program
  • 2023: Molly Stevens, Ph.D., John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, and Deputy Director of the Kavil Institute for Nanoscience Discovery.