Michael W. Berns, PhD

Professor

A Timeline of Professional Milestones

1942

Born in Burlington, VT on December 1.

1964

Earns a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in biology from Cornell University by 1968.

1969

Is associate director of laser biology for the Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research until 1970.

1970

Is an assistant professor of zoology at the University of Michigan until 1972; Is a grantee of the NIH and again in 1972 and 1980.

1972

Is an associate professor of developmental and cell biology at the University of Michigan until 1975.

1973

Is a co-principal investigator on laser microbeam studies on mitosis with the National Science Foundation until 1975.

1975

Is a department chair and a professor of developmental and cell biology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) through today.

1977

Serves on the National Academy of Sciences Ad Hoc Committee for Lasers in Biomedical Research; Receives an Intl. Union Against Cancer Award through 1980.

1978

Serves as chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology.

1979

Founds the first Laser Microbeam Program, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

1982

Co-founds and is a director of the Beckman Laser Institute at UCI until 2003; Becomes a fellow of the Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science.

1988

Is named the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

1990

Receives the William B. Mark Award from the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery.

1999

Is a founding director of the UCI Center for Biomedical Engineering and founds the UCI Photonics Incubator.

2000

Is an adjunct prof. in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the Univ. of California, San Diego; Becomes a fellow of the Amer. Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

2006

Receives the Biomedical Optics Lifetime Achievement Award at the SPIE’s International Symposium on Biomedical Optics.

2007

Becomes a fellow of the SPIE; Receives the Michael W. Berns Award for Research Excellence established by the Vascular Birthmark Foundation.

2014

Becomes a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

2021

Publishes the book, “The Tinderbox Plot.”

2022

Receives a Gold Medal from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

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