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YUAN-CHENG B. FUNG
YUAN-CHENG B. FUNG
Pages 104-109
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Later, he coined the term tissue engineering. "After many years in the field, I really think that an interdisciplinary area is not just the one area plus another," he said in an extensive oral history recorded for IEEE in 2000.
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This was his first step toward focusing on bioengineering. After joining the UC San Diego faculty in 1966 he became one of the founders of its bioengineering program, along with fellow researchers Benjamin W
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Beyond the UCSD campus, he chaired the International Applied Mechanics Division of the the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and in 1972 established the ASME Biomechanics Symposium, which became the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference. For his outstanding contributions Fung received a National Medal of Science in 2000, the first bioengineer to earn the distinction.
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More than 100 researchers from as far as Israel, Taiwan, Singapore, and China came together for the occasion. Shu Chien, who was recruited by Fung to come to UC San Diego from Columbia University, studied how blood flow and pressure affect vessels (and received a National Medal of Science in 2011)
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