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Dr. James Friend

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James Friend leads the Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory in the Center for Medical Devices at the University of California, San Diego. He holds the Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Endowed Chair in Engineering and is a professor in both the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering and the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine. He spent 14 years abroad as a faculty member in Japan and Australia before returning to the US. His research interests are principally in exploring and exploiting acoustic phenomena at small scales, mainly for biomedical applications. He currently supervises a team of 7 PhD students and one post-doctoral staff member. Over the years, he has published over 280 peer-reviewed research publications (H-factor = 54) and has 25 granted patents, completed 35 postgraduate students and supervised 23 postdoctoral staff, and been awarded over $29 million in competitive grant-based research funding. He most recently helped found Arna Systems, a diagnostics company, GlideNeuro, an endovascular intervention technology company, and Sonocharge, a rapidly rechargeable battery company which has grown to a valuation of $12M. Among other awards, he received UCSD’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021, was noted as a highly cited author of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020, is a Fellow of the IEEE from 2018 and was awarded the IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award from the IEEE in 2015.