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Eby Friedman and Steve Goldman are being recognized for their pioneering work.

Two 人妻少妇专区 faculty members have been elected as fellows of the (NAI), the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

• , Distinguished Professor of
• , the Dean Zutes Chair in Biology of the Aging Brain in the and a URMC Distinguished Professor of Neurology

They are among the 170 inventors, representing 135 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutes worldwide, being . Explore the .

The honor recognizes academic inventors 鈥渨ho have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.鈥�

The 2024 class of fellows will be honored at the NAI 14th Annual Meeting on June 26, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eby Friedman: Advancing high-complexity, high-performance integrated circuit design

Friedman was recognized for his pioneering work in high-performance integrated circuits. Friedman鈥檚 work spans topics such as clock synchronization, power delivery and management, interconnect models, three-dimensional (3-D) integration, and emerging technologies such as superconductive circuits and magnetic devices. His research is used in a variety of common applications, such as microprocessors, wireless cell phones, cloud computing centers, and electronic design automation (EDA) tools used throughout industry.

As an inventor, Friedman holds 25 US patents and four foreign patents, which cover topics ranging from circuits for high-performance microprocessors and superconductive systems to methods for directional biasing of magnetic devices in high-density magnetic memory. His research has been integrated into a variety of commercial products across a diverse group of industries such as ink jet printers (Xerox), electronic design automation algorithms (Synopsys), digital cameras (Eastman Kodak), power management circuits (Qualcomm), and synchronous circuits (Intel) for microprocessors. His patents have been licensed by the primary EDA companies.

Friedman has been a member of several technical advisory boards and has founded multiple startup companies in the areas of electronic design automation and quantum computing. Several of these startups commercialized design tools for clock network synthesis to automate the on-chip synchronization process, necessary in almost all modern integrated circuits.

Friedman worked at Hughes Aircraft Company for 12 years, where he participated in the development of a large variety of integrated circuits and systems for US military and commercial applications. Friedman joined the 人妻少妇专区 in 1991 where he directs the High-Performance VLSI/IC Design and Analysis Laboratory. Friedman also serves as a visiting professor at the Technion鈥擨srael Institute of Technology, where he directs the Technion Advanced Circuits Research Center and is a member of the Technion Board of Governors. He previously led the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems at Rochester for nine years. The Center is now known as the .

A prolific author and scholar, Friedman has authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and 17 textbooks. His books cover a broad range of topics, including high performance integrated circuits, 3-D integrated circuits, quantum integrated circuits, and on-chip power delivery and management. Friedman is a Fellow of the IEEE and past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems and the Microelectronics Journal.

Friedman is a Fulbright scholar and has been a recipient of many awards such as a 人妻少妇专区 College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the 人妻少妇专区 Graduate Teaching Award, the 人妻少妇专区 Hajim Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Mac Van Valkenburg Award, and is an inaugural member of the University of California, Irvine Engineering Hall of Fame.

Steve Goldman: Pioneering neurological therapies through innovation and commercialization

Goldman, the URMC Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neurosciences, was recognized for his innovative research on stem and progenitor cells in the central nervous system. This work continues to shape the future of therapeutic development for complex neurological conditions, including progressive multiple sclerosis, childhood leukodystrophies, Huntington鈥檚 disease, and other neurodegenerative and myelin disorders, potentially touching the lives of countless individuals worldwide.

Goldman鈥檚 contributions and entrepreneurship extend beyond academia into commercial biotechnology. He holds 36 US patents, with another 32 pending, and more than 100 foreign patents. These new technologies include innovations like fluorescence-activated cell sorting of brain cells, stem cell-derived glial cells, and human-glial chimeric brain models, all of which have become industry standards. The technologies鈥攍icensed by the 人妻少妇专区 to Sana Biotechnology, Oscine, CNS2, and Lyriq鈥攁re being employed in the development of new cell and gene therapies for neurological disorders.

Oscine was cofounded by Goldman in what was then the University鈥檚 largest-ever biotech startup, and was later acquired by Sana Biotechnology, which subsequently went public. He then cofounded another startup, CNS2, which now employs 22 staff members in Rochester, New York, further supporting innovation and job creation in the region鈥檚 biotechnology sector. Research done in the 鈥攗nder both academic and commercial support鈥攈as led to FDA applications for therapies targeting progressive multiple sclerosis, Huntington鈥檚 disease, and other conditions.

Goldman is a neurologist and former chair of the Department of Neurology at the Medical Center. He has published more than 250 articles, most as first or senior author, which include papers in top journals such as Science, Nature (including Nature portfolio journals Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience) Cell (including subjournals Cell Stem Cell and Cancer Cell), Neuron, JCI, and Brain, among many others. He is an associate editor of Brain, on the editorial board of Stem Cell Reports, and has been editor of the neuro-oncology and neuroscience sections of the Merck Manual. He has also served as a permanent voting member of the FDA鈥檚 Cell, Tissue, and Gene Therapy Advisory Committee. Goldman and his wife, Maiken Nedergaard, codirect the , which maintains labs in both Rochester and at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Reporting by Luke Auburn and Mark Michaud.