Prof. John Pearce has been selected as a recipient of an Editor's Choice award for 2015 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Biomechanical Engineering for his paper "Improving Accuracy in Arrhenius Models of Cell Death: Adding a Temperature-Dependent Time Delay." The Editors' Choice list includes eleven papers selected from 165 published in JBME in 2015, and it "represents the papers that the editorial board felt best exemplified the high quality and significance of work in JBME in 2015."

The Journal of Biomechanical Engineering reports research results involving the application of mechanical engineering principles to the improvement of human health. The scope of relevant topics ranges from basic biology to biomedical applications and includes theoretical, computational, experimental, and clinical studies.

John A. Pearce is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship.