Affiliation: Rice University

Michael R. King is the E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, Associate Vice President for Research, and Special Advisor to the Provost on Life Science Collaborations with the Texas Medical Center. He is also a Scholar of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Previously, King was the J. Lawrence Wilson Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and before that was the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor at Cornell University. King is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Inventors, and served as founding vice president of the International Society of Bionic Engineering. He served as editor-in-chief of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, an official journal of the BMES. He is currently the President-Elect of AIMBE.