Larry A. Taber, Ph.D.
Senior Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Education
Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 1979
Thesis advisor: Charles R. Steele
B.A.E., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1974
Professional Experience
| 2017-present |
Senior Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
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| 2007 - 2017 |
Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
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1997 - 2017 |
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Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
(joint, 2009-2017) |
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1990 - 1997 |
Associate Professor, Professor (1992) Department of Pediatrics University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY |
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1982 - 1997 |
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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (1986), Professor (1992)
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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1978 - 1982 |
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Research Engineer, Biomedical Science Department |
Distinctions
NIH James A. Shannon Director's Award (1991)
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1998)
Keynote lecture, South Carolina in Silico Biology Symposium (2001)
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2002)
Keynote lecture, USNCB Frontiers in Biomechanics Symposium (2005)
Installed as The Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Washington University, 2007.
Richard Skalak Best Paper Award, ASME Bioengineering Division (2005, 2008, & 2015)
Keynote lecture, IUTAM Symposium on Computer Models in Biomechanics: from Nano to Macro,
Stanford University, 2011.
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (2011-2016)
Best Paper Award in area of residual stress, Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference,
Chicago, IL (2013)
Distinguished Lecture, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas (2019)
ASME H.R. Lissner Medal (2020)
