SPECIAL DEDICATION TO PROFESSOR S. CHIEN ON BEING AWARDED THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE (USA)

Professor Dr. Shu Chien has been engaged in biomedical research for over half a century. He is without doubt one of the pioneers of the field of hemo - rheology and one of the most prolific and important bioengineering researchers in the world. Cur- rently he is Professor of Bio-Engineering at one of the leading research departments in the world- the Bioengineering Department at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California at San Diego, home to the legendary \u201cfather of biomechanics\u201d, Professor Y. C. Fung. He was also President of the Biomedical Engineer- ing Society in 2006\u20132008. Professor Chien has made immense contributions to our understanding of the rheology of blood, red-cell elasticity, capillary viscosity, ery- throcyte membrane mechanics and leukocyte biofluid dynamics