McIntire Named Fellow of Science Association

McIntire Named Fellow of Science Association

RICE NEWS STAFF
Oct. 29, 1998

Larry McIntire, the E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering and chair of both the Department of Bioengineering and Rice’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Individuals are named as fellows for their efforts toward advancing science or fostering applications that are scientifically or socially distinguished.

McIntire will be honored at an official ceremony Jan. 23 at the 1999 AAAS Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. He will receive a certificate for “outstanding research in biological transport phenomena and tissue engineering and for service to the field of biomedical engineering.”

McIntire’s research is focused on understanding the interactions among fluid mechanics, convective mass transport, cell biology, and molecular biology in the cardiovascular system. His research includes studying how blood cells flow through arteries and veins, attach to the endothelial cells that line them, and then migrate into the vessel wall. Applications include the immune response and cancer metastasis.

McIntire also develops models for studying the process of developing blood clots.

A third research area is understanding how blood flow and its fluid mechanical forces affect the metabolism of vessel cells, including production and secretion of proteins in the cells, and working to understand how a cell recognizes changes in blood flow and translates those signals to the nucleus to initiate gene regulation.

In addition to numerous memberships and awards, McIntire has served as president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (1997-’98), the North American Society for Biorheology (1994-’96), and the Biomedical EngineeringSociety (1995-’96).

Founded in 1848, the AAAS represents the world’s largest federation of scientists and has more than 144,000 individual members. The Association publishes the weekly, peer-reviewed journal Science.