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Each year,1 the associate editors of the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering identify the most meritorious papers published in the Journal in the previous calendar year. An external committee then selects the best paper of the year from this list of Editors' Choice Papers [1–16]. The authors of this paper are the recipients of the Richard Skalak Award, named after an early leader within the ASME Bioengineering community. Richard Skalak (1923–1997) played a leadership role in the formative decades of the discipline of biomedical engineering through his technical contributions in biomechanics, his educational influence on students, and his service to many developing societies and journals. Richard Skalak believed in several central approaches to bioengineering and several central values in working with people. In bioengineering, these were (1) the useful combination of mathematical and computational modeling with experimental results, to better inform the new biological understanding that is derived, and (2) the inclusion of both microscale and macroscale phenomena in understanding complex biological systems. In terms of mentoring students and collaborating with colleagues, these were (1) share ideas freely, (2) listen to ideas of others and integrate the best into new developments, and (3) show tolerance and respect for others at all times. These tenets help to guide us as a community and as a journal, and we are honored by the opportunity to contribute to Richard Skalak's legacy by giving an award bearing his name.
The Editors sincerely thank the 2022 Skalak Award committee: Victor Barocas (chair), Silvia Blemker, Joel Boerckel, Guy Genin, Keefe Manning, and Ian Sigal. Congratulations to the authors of the Skalak Award winner, to the papers selected for honorable mention (runners-up for the Skalak award), and to the authors of all the Editors' Choice papers!
The 2022 Skalak Award Winner
Rooks, N. B., Schneider, M. T. Y., Erdemir, A., Halloran, J. P., Laz, P. J., Shelburne, K. B., Hume, D. R., et al., 2021, “Deciphering the “Art” in Modeling and Simulation of the Knee Joint: Variations in Model Development,” ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 143(6), p. 061002.
Honorable Mention for the 2022 Skalak Award
Taebi, A., Vu, C. T., and Roncali, E., 2021, “Multiscale Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling for Personalized Liver Cancer Radio Embolization Dosimetry,” ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 143(1), p. 011002.
Witt, N. J., Woessner, A. E., Quinn, K. P., and Sander, E. A., 2022, “Multiscale Computational Model Predicts Mouse Skin Kinematics Under Tensile Loading,” ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 144(4), p. 041008.
Footnotes
We are in the process of offering the award solely based on the year of publication, which was not always the case in the past. Therefore, to not disadvantage any papers, for this year, we considered papers published in both 2021 and 2022, as you will see. Going forward, we will go strictly by calendar year of submission.
