Haim H. Bau Named 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

With more than 2,000 Fellows across over 300 universities and research institutes worldwide, the NAI community collectively holds tens of thousands of issued U.S. patents, which have enabled thousands of licensed technologies and companies and created millions of jobs.

The NAI Fellows Program recognizes academic inventors whose work has led to outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and societal welfare. Election to NAI Fellow is widely regarded as the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.

Haim H. Bau

Bau’s work spans micro- and nano-fluidics, lab-on-a-chip systems and advanced diagnostic platforms that integrate biology, chemistry and engineering. His team develops miniature devices capable of detecting pathogens, monitoring environmental conditions and performing complex medical tests at extremely small scales and low cost. Their innovations have contributed to next-generation tools for rapid disease detection and accessible point-of-care diagnostics. Bau is helping bring advanced health monitoring technologies out of specialized labs and into everyday settings, empowering faster, earlier and more accessible diagnostics for people around the world.

“I am deeply honored to be named an NAI Fellow,” says Bau. “And, I share this recognition with the extraordinary students, postdoctoral fellows and colleagues I have been fortunate to work alongside throughout my career. Their creativity, hard work and unwavering commitment have made our achievements possible.”

Read the NAI press release on this year’s Fellows.