• WF Promotions
    The Whitaker Foundation Governing Committee has named John H. Linehan, Ph.D., Vice President of the foundation and Wolf W. von Maltzahn, Ph.D., P.E., Vice President, Biomedical Engineering, effective immediately.

  • Signal Processing Text
    The first textbook to come out of The Whitaker Foundation's Teaching Materials Program has been published. The book---Biomedical Signal Processing and Signal Modeling, by Eugene N. Bruce of the University of Kentucky---gives a biomedical engineering perspective on the theory, methods and applications of signal processing.

  • BME Intern is Finalist
    A biomedical engineering intern at the State University of New York is a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search.

  • Artificial Heart Trials
    The FDA has cleared the way for clinical trials of a battery-powered artificial heart as a permanent alternative to a heart transplant.

  • DARPA Information Technology Office

  • Two BME Pioneers Honored
    Two pioneering developers of the heart pacemaker have been awarded the National Academy of Engineering's Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize.

  • Summit Talks Online
    Plenary talks from The Whitaker Foundation's Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit have been synchronized with the slide presentations are are available online.

  • Frontiers in Mathematical and Computational Biology

  • Great Lakes Biomedical Conference

  • Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis 2001

  • Two Universities Add New Programs in Biomedical Engineering
    New BME programs at Mississippi State University and the University of Central Oklahoma bring the total number of programs in the United States and Canada to 90.

  • New Heart Assist Device Approved for Clinical Trials
    A new wireless heart assist device is the first fully implantable device of its kind approved for clinical trials by the Food and Drug Administration.

  • Better Heart Pacing
    A new device similar to a pacemaker but with more control over the heart’s rhythm is being tested in the clinic to see how well it can reduce the symptoms of chronic heart failure.

  • Fifth International Symposium On Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

  • 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
    Istanbul, Turkey - Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Centre

  • Business Outlook
    An annual survey of medical device manufacturers shows little change in optimism about business conditions. Sixty percent rated current business conditions as good or excellent, down from the record high of 64 percent last year.

  • Gordon Research Conference on Tissue Repair and Regeneration

  • Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials: Biocompatibility and Tissue Engineering

  • Protein Complexity
    The intricate geometrical shapes of proteinsthe building blocks of the human bodydetermine how they function to keep us healthy and what drugs will work when they malfunction. Understanding these shapes is a goal of medical science, but new research suggests that this may be much more difficult than previously imagined.

  • Child Defibrillator
    The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first automatic external defibrillator for treating cardiac arrest in infants and children under 8.

  • Seizures Quieted
    Biomedical engineers have used a mild electric field to control seizurelike activity in brain cells. The work hints at the possibility of controlling epilepsy in a similar way.

  • Stem Cell Sorter
    Biomedical engineers have developed a patented magnetic cell sorting system that can more effectively zero in on vital cell populations, such as stem cells in bone marrow and cancer cells loose in the bloodstream.

  • Whitaker Foundation Annual Report 2000
    Biomedical Engineering and the Eye is the theme of the foundations 2000 annual report. An online version is available in PDF.

  • Prize for Innovative Engineering Educators
    The National Academy of Engineering is accepting nominations for a new prize for innovative engineering educators.

  • Stretching Nerve Cells for Transplant
    A neuroscientist and a biomedical engineer have found an unconventional way to produce nerve cells that might be used to bridge spinal cord injuries. They cultured the cells in a lab dish and then stretched them.

  • Coronary Catheter Cleans Up
    A guidewire and catheter system that cleans up after itselfthereby reducing the risk of heart attackhas been approved for use on heart patients in the United States.

  • Coronary Catheter Cleans Up
    A guidewire and catheter system that cleans up after itselfthereby reducing the risk of heart attackhas been approved for use on heart patients in the United States.

  • Tissue Engineering Society International

  • Smart Stethoscope Helps Diagnose Heart Murmurs
    A new smart stethoscope could help pediatricians distinguish benign heart murmurs from those that could signal an abnormal heart condition, helping lower the costs associated with heart murmur screening in children.

  • Penn Gets Whitaker Foundation Leadership%2DDevelopment Award
    The Whitaker Foundation has given the University of Pennsylvania a $14 million Leadership%2DDevelopment Award to recognize its excellence and solidify its role as a national leader in biomedical engineering.

  • Laser Scalpel for Eyes
    A team at the University of Michigan has developed and clinically tested an ultrashort%2Dpulse laser to improve the precision of LASIK eye surgery.

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting AIChE

  • Cells and Gels
    A new book sets out a simple, unifying theory that challenges conventional thinking about how living cells work.

  • Quantum Dot DNA Test
    Indiana University researchers have shown how to identify tens of thousands of genes all at once by using tiny semiconductor crystals that dazzle in ultraviolet light.

  • Whitaker Research Grants Approved
    Research on stem cells, gene therapy, and cryopreservation and cryosurgery are among 25 projects to be funded under The Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grants Program.

  • $5.5 Million for Biomedical Engineering Research
    The Whitaker Foundation has awarded a total of $5.5 million to 25 researchers for projects in biomedical engineering research. Abstracts are now available.

  • Boston, UC Davis Receive Leadershiplevel Awards
    Boston University, with one of the oldest biomedical engineering departments in the nation, and the University of California, Davis, with one of the newest, have both received leadership level awards from The Whitaker Foundation.

  • Meaney Wins Fung Award
    Biomedical engineer David Meaney of the University of Pennsylvania has won the 2001 Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award.

  • Institute of Biological Engineering

  • 2nd Annual Tissue and Genetic Engineering for the Treatment of Arthritic Diseases Conference

  • Biopolymers, Advances in Medical and Material Science Applications Conference

  • Bone Building Vibrations
    Standing on a gently vibrating platform while brushing your teeth in the morning may be enough to stimulate strong bones, according to a new study.

  • Fellowships 2002
    The 2002 announcement and application forms for Whitatker Foundation Graduate Fellowships in Biomedical Engineering are now available. Note: The fellowship tenure may be extended for a maximum of one additional year, a shorter period than previously allowed.

  • Thumbs Up
    A Cornell researcher hopes to improve thumb and hand surgeries with a model system of the opposable thumb, "one of the most impressive mechanisms in nature."

  • Bioengineers Get Top Pay: Survey
    Bioengineering, bioinformatics and clinical research are among the top three paying areas of the life sciences, according to a new survey.

  • Skin Substitute Approved
    Advanced Tissue Sciences says the FDA has granted premarket approval for Dermagraft as a treatment for chronic foot ulcers in diabetics.

  • BME Chairmen
    Contact information for chairmen of biomedical engineering departments and programs at more than 90 universities is now available from The Whitaker Foundation.

  • La Jolla Slides
    Slides are now available for three of the presentations at the 2001 Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Conference in La Jolla.

  • NIBIB Web Site
    The new National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering now has its own web site.

  • 28th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference

  • Fourth World Congress of Biomechanics

  • Research Grants
    The 2002 announcement and application guidelines for Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grants are now available. This is the final announcement for the program, which is being phased out as part of the foundation's plan to close in 2006.

  • Industrial Internships
    The 2002 program announcement and application guidelines for Whitaker Foundation Industrial Internships is now available.

  • Whitaker Research Grants Approved
    Research on stem cells, gene therapy, and cryopreservation and cryosurgery are among 25 projects to be funded under The Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grants Program.

  • 2nd Joint Meeting of the IEEE EMBS and the BMES

  • International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

  • Whitaker Foundation to Phase Out Grant Programs
    The Whitaker Foundation, which has invested more than $575 million in biomedical engineering education and research, has begun phasing out its grant programs to coincide with its planned closing in 2006.

  • Whitaker Special Opportunity Awards
    The program announcement and application guidelines for The Whitaker Foundation's 2002 Special Opportunity Awards are available. This will be the final competition for these awards.

  • Whitaker Teaching Materials Announcement
    The 2002 program announcement and application guidelines for The Whitaker Foundation's Teaching Materials Program are now available.

  • Research Grants Approved
    The Whitaker Foundation has approved a total of $8.6 million in new research grants to 34 universities.

  • Seventh Australian and New Zealand Intelligent Information Systems Conference

  • BioMedical Engineering Society of India

  • Blood Vessels Grown in Live Animals
    Biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have grown a healthy network of blood vessels in live animals using implants that deliver critical growth enzymes sequentially as in nature.

  • 4th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation

  • Biomedical Engineering Society Spring Meeting with Experimental Biology

  • BECON 2002 Symposium on Sensor in Biological Research and Medicine

  • Fifth IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging

  • EMBEC'02 European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 2002

  • History of BME
    A brief history of biomedical engineering has been updated and posted to The Whitaker Foundation web site.

  • Women in BME
    Biomedical engineering leads all engineering disciplines in the percentage of degrees awarded to women, according to the American Society for Engineering Education.

  • Basic Science Symposium 2002, Cell and Tissue Engineering

  • International Conference on Micro and Nano Systems 2002

  • Sonic Flashlight Gives Users A New Form of Ultrasonic Vision
    A sonic flashlight developed by a biomedical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh makes the human body seem translucent right in front of your eyes.

  • 11th Annual AIMBE Event

  • IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • 2nd IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biocomplexity: From System to Gene

  • 1st IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Applications of ICT in Biomedicine

  • BME Job Growth
    The Labor Department predicts that biomedical engineering jobs will open up twice as fast as overall employment gains through the end of the decade.

  • World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2003, Sydney, Australia

  • Tissue Engineering

  • Biomechanics of Man Conference 2002

  • IEEE EMBS, 25th Anniversary Conference, Cancun, Mexico 2003

  • 26th Annual Great Lakes Biomedical Engineering Conference

  • Draper Prize
    Robert Langer of MIT has won the National Academy of Engineering's Draper Prize for 2002.

  • Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine Conference 2003

  • IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

  • IEEE EMBS Summer School on Medical Devices and Biosensors

  • BioMEMs and Biomedical Nanotechnology World 2002

  • Gene Therapy Patent
    Biomedical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have received a patent for an experimental gene therapy to prevent blood vessels from reclosing after balloon angioplasty.

  • Biomechanics in the decade of the bone and joint conference

  • Symposium on the mechanics of physicochemical and electromechanical interactions in porous media

  • Fromm Awarded First Gordon Prize
    Eli Fromm of Drexel University has won the first Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering.

  • Cartilage Made From Stem Cells Tested in Animals
    The research lab that made headines last year for turning fat cells into cartilage has taken the work a step further by successfully implanting the altered cells in mice.

  • Biophotonics Workshop

  • Symposium on Non-Fouling Surfaces

  • Myoelectric Controls Symposium 2002

  • New Summer Program for Students
    The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have announced a new program to support multidisciplinary research training and education in bioengineering and bioinformatics.

  • Whitaker Foundation Annual Report
    The 2001 Whitaker annual report, Biomedical Engineering and the Practice of Medicine, gives an update on virtual colonoscopy, the ventricular assist device, rehabilitation engineering, and other areas.

  • New Summer Program for Students
    The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have created a new program to support research training and education in bioengineering and bioinformatics.

  • Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Found Cost Effective
    Devices that are implanted in the chest to regulate heart rates have proved to be moderately cost-effective among patients trying to avoid a repeat of life-threatening events, according to a new study.

  • International Society for Postural and Gait Research Conference 2003

  • 6th New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials Science

  • NIBIB Training Grants
    The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering is offering postdoctoral fellowships and institutional research training grants in bioengineering, biomedical imaging and multidisciplinary biomedical research.

  • NIBIB Submits Budget Request
    Acting Director Donna Dean has submitted the 2003 budget request for the new National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

  • New Type of Defibrillator Approved
    The FDA has approved the first implantable device for heart patients that acts as both a defibrillator and a cardiac resynchronizer.

  • BME Study Sections
    The NIH is taking comment on 11 proposed panels to review grant applications in biomedical imaging and bioengineering.

  • NIBIB's First Director
    Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., has been named the first director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

  • 1st International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

  • Heart Pump Study
    A new study adds to the evidence supporting the use of heart assist pumps as permanent implants for patients with heart failure.

  • Three in Top 100
    Three Whitaker investigators are among Technology Review's top 100 innovators in the world.

  • Direct Thought Control
    The desired ability to control the movement of prosthetic limbs with brain waves has edged a little closer to reality.

  • Nanoscale Cartilage
    The electrostatic force that makes your hair stand on end in the winter is also at work in the cartilage of your knee, giving it strength and flexibility.

  • BioMedical Engineering OnLine |

  • National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

  • Products, Devices, New Companies
    Whitaker investigators have created more than 200 products and devices and started more than 100 technology companies since the Research Grants Program began in 1976.

  • Information Processing in Medical Imaging Conference

  • International Workship on Magnetic Resonance Angiography

  • Industrial Internships
    The 2002 program announcement and application guidelines for Whitaker Foundation Industrial Internships is now available.

  • 2003 Summer Bioengineering Conference

  • Whitaker Teaching Materials Program
    The final three deadlines have been set for preliminary applications for the Whitaker Foundation Teaching Materials program. The due dates are Oct. 15, 2002; Jan. 2, 2003; and May 1, 2003.

  • 5th IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control in Biomedical Systems

  • Tissue Engineering Conference

  • Final Fellowships
    The Whitaker Foundation has begun its final competition for Graduate Fellowships. The application deadline is Dec. 11, 2002.

  • Nanomachines
    A biomedical engineer and a biologist have teamed up to create nanomachines that hone in on breast cancer tissue in live mice.

  • Speeding Blood Cells

  • Million Dollar Professor
    Whitaker investigator Rebecca Richards Kortum of the University of Texas at Austin has been named a million dollar professor by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

  • AMSE Bioengineering Technology Seminar

  • Virtual Stomach
    The first virtual stomach is providing unique insights into the way medicines are released from pills and capsules.

  • Attractive Chemistry
    Biomedical engineers have developed a tiny tool to study how chemicals attract cells, a key step in immunity, healing, and fighting the spread of cancer.

  • MBBNet - Industry Database
    Database of biomedical engineering-related industries in Minnesota.

  • Insulin Patch
    A needle free insulin delivery system worn as a patch on the skin has produced encouraging results as a prototype.

  • Heart Pump Okayed
    The government has approved the HeartMate heart assist pump as a permanent implant for patients with severe heart failure.

  • Model Predicts Disease
    Bioengineers have developed the first computer model that can predict the severity of a disease based on a patient's genes.

  • Home Defibrillator Approved by FDA

  • Medical Imaging 2003 Conference

  • Northeast Bioengineering Conference

  • European Conference on Biomedical Optics 2003

  • Northeast Bioengineering Conference

  • Predicting Evolution
    A new computer model has successfully predicted how one strain of a common bacterium will evolve over hundreds of generations.

  • Early Plaque Detection
    Bioengineers have used nanotechnology to see where blood vessel plaques are just beginning to form, well before they pose a risk of heart attack or stroke.

  • New Beginning
    Whitaker Foundation President Peter Katona reviews the history of the foundation and its aspirations and envisions a bright future for biomedical engineering after the foundation closes.

  • Soccer Headgear Fails Impact Tests
    Foam helmets and padded headbands do little to soften the impact of heading a soccer ball, according to a new study.

  • Whitaker Conference Awards

  • Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

  • International Biosignal Conference

  • BioMEMs and Microfluidics Conference

  • Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference

  • Workshop on Cells and Materials

  • Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference

  • International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration

  • Experiencing the Frontiers of Biomedical Technology Symposium

  • International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology

  • Biomaterials: Biocompatibility and Tissue Engineering Conference

  • BECON Symposium on Catalyzing Team Science

  • 6th International Conference on Cellular Engineering

  • International Mechanical Engineering Congress

  • 5th Bone Fluid Flow Workshop

  • Materials and Processes for Medical Devices Conference

  • Whitaker Investigator Directory
    The Directory of Whitaker Investigators has been updated on line with new contact information for about 500 of the 1,272 entries.

  • Brain Size in Premature Infants
    The brains of premature infants are smaller than those of full term babies, even when measured at the same developmental stage after birth, according to recent studies of brain images at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Woman’s Hospital.

  • Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting

  • ASM Conference on Bio-, Micro-, and Nanosystems

  • Goldwater Scholars
    Twice as many Goldwater Scholars this year are in biomedical engineering.

  • Contact Lenses
    A prototype contact lens has been developed and tested in the laboratory for delivering medicine directly to the eye. The drug seeps out from nanoparticles imbedded in the lens.

  • Three From BME Elected to NAE
    Three biomedical engineers were among 77 new members recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

  • SAE World Congress: Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering

  • International Society of Electrophysiology & Kinesiology Congress

  • Whitaker Foundation 2002 Annual Report
    The foundation's 2002 annual report, which includes a theme section on Biomedical Engineering and the Brain, is now available online as a PDF file.

  • Engineered Bone
    A new method of making tissue engineered bone speeds the healing of severe breaks in laboratory testing.

  • "Most Cited"
    Articles in the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering are cited more often than papers in any of its peer journals, according to ISI's 2002 Journal Citation Report.

  • BMES Taking the Lead for Accreditation
    The Biomedical Engineering Society is taking the lead for accrediting biomedical engineering programs at colleges and universities.

  • Infants More Vulnerable to Serious Brain Injury From Falling Than Previously Thought
    Babies are more vulnerable to serious head injury during a fall than had been previously thought, according to new research that may also begin to help child abuse investigators distinguish between accidental and intentional injury.

  • First Textbook on Tissue Engineering
    The first college textbook on the new field of tissue engineering has been published with support from The Whitaker Foundation's Teaching Materials program. 

  • Sharper MicroPET Imaging
    Researchers have removed some of the fogginess from PET images of small laboratory animals with a new scanner that is eight times sharper than before.

  • NIH Polymer Network Conference

  • IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering

  • BiOS Photonics West Conference

  • International Conference on Biomedical Engineering

  • George Thorn Honored
    George W. Thorn, M.D., a major figure in American medicine for 60 years and a close advisor of The Whitaker Foundation, has received the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

  • Bioengineered Bandage
    A bioengineered bandage developed at Virginia Commonwealth University would never have to be removed, so it could stop bleeding, speed healing, and eliminate the pain and reinjury caused by changing a conventional wound dressing.

  • Whitaker Grantees Among "Top 100"
    Five Whitaker Foundation investigators and a former Whitaker Fellow are among Technology Review's top 100 young innovators for 2003.

  • MISS Sorts Sperm Cells
    Biomedical engineers have developed a prototype lab on a chip for harvesting healthy sperm cells to increase male fertility.

  • Bears and Strong Bones
    Bears may teach us a thing or two about having strong, healthy bones.

  • Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering

  • Whitaker Awards Final Research Grants
    The foundation has awarded its final research grants, ending 27 years of support for young investigators in biomedical engineering.

  • "Genius Award" Winner Works to Reduce Injuries in the Elderly, Improve Modern Medicines
    MacArthur Fellow James J. Collins of Boston University may have found a way to help elderly people avoid one of the most common sources of serious injury: falls.

  • 17th International EURASIP Conference, Biosignal 2004

  • IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

  • 26th IEEE EMBS Conference

  • IEEE EMBS Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors

  • Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics

  • Thought Controlled Bionic Arm
    Biomedical engineers and surgeons at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago have attached a bionic arm that can be controlled by thought.

  • 9th International Congress on Hyperthermic Oncology

  • Senior Electrical R&D Engineer, Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, California

  • Biomedical Imaging Tenure Track Faculty Position, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

  • Neural Engineering Tenure Track Faculty Positions, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

  • Neural Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

  • Small Animal & Molecular Imaging, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

  • Tissue Engineering Tenure Track Faculty Positions, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

  • Tissue Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

  • R&D Engineer III, Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, California

  • Full Professor (tenured position) , University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

  • Assistant Professor - Tenure Track , University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

  • Biomechanics, Columbia University, New York City

  • Cellular and Tissue Engineering Faculty Search , Columbia University, New York City

  • Tenure-Track Faculty in Biomedical Imaging, Columbia University , New York City

  • Assistant/Associate Professor Radiochemist, Molecular Imaging, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH

  • Research Associate (Doctoral level), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

  • Research Associate (Doctoral level), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Five Awards Mark End of New Building Grants
    Five universities will share $17 million in the final round of Special Awards for building construction from The Whitaker Foundation.

  • Optical Society of America Biomedical Topical Meetings

  • Jawbone Grows from Adult Stem Cells
    A Whitaker investigator has moved tissue engineering a step forward by successfully using a single population of adult stem cells to grow a knob of jawbone as a potential medical implant.

  • World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

  • Breast Cancer Scanner
    A gamma camera has been customized to detect the earliest signs of breast cancer, before it can be felt as a lump or seen in a mammogram.

  • Drug Delivery Particles
    Researchers have taken cues from the way white blood cells heal injury and fight disease to produce a highly targeted system that might someday be used for drug delivery.

  • 10th Mediterranean Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering

  • ASME Bioengineering Technology Seminar

  • Applications of Information and Communication Technologies in Medicine Summer School

  • 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference

  • Medical Simulation Symposium 2004

  • Third Scientific Meeting of theTMJ Association

  • Multiscale Computational Modeling for Biomedical Research Workshop

  • Genomics of Reward and Addiction, Frontiers in Genome Engineering, Pharmacogenomics Conferences

  • European Society of Biomechanics Conference

  • Research Suggests How the Brain Can Misperceive What the Body is Doing
    Researchers have identified areas of the brain responsible for disagreements between action and perception, between what you are doing and what you think you are doing.

  • Cell Mixture Used to Grow Durable Blood Vessels in Mice

  • BME Jobs to Climb by 26.1 Percent
    The number of biomedical engineering jobs will climb almost twice as fast as the overall average for a 26.1 percent gain by 2012, according to the government's new long range forecast.

  • Gordon Research Conference on Musculoskeletal Biology & Bioengineering

  • IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference

  • International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering

  • NIH BECON Biomedical Engineering Symposium 2004

  • International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering

  • The IASTED International Conference on Biomechanics (BioMech 2004)

  • Understanding Diabetes
    Biomedical engineers are beginning to understand some of the basic mechanisms underlying many of the complications of diabetes. The research may lead to new treatment strategies.

  • IEEE CIMSA Conference 2004

  • Nanomedicine Summit

  • Biomedical Engineering and the Fight Against Diabetes
    The Whitaker Foundation's 2003 annual report is now online in PDF format (1.2mb). An HTML version will follow.

  • Look at the Retina
    Ross Shonat is taking a closer look at the role of oxygen in diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of new blindness in adults.

  • Whitaker Investigator Directory
    The Directory of Whitaker Investigators has been updated on line with new contact information for about 500 of the 1,272 entries.

  • Guarding the Milk Supply?
    The Department of Homeland Security is backing research on lab on a chip sensors that might guard the nation's food supply better than the current system of tamper resistant lids and freshness dates.

  • Knee Cartilage Regrows
    With an eye toward reducing the need for knee replacement surgery, biomedical engineers have created a dual purpose scaffold that cushions a damaged joint while providing the support that cartilage cells need to generate new tissue.

  • Students Shun Science
    U.S. preeminence in science and technology is being threatened by a lack of student interest, according to a report issued this month by the National Science Board.

  • Stem Cell Control
    Researchers have discovered a potentially powerful tool for controlling whether bone marrow stem cells grow into skin, fat, bone, or other cell types.

  • 3-D Hydrogel Guides Nerve Growth
    Biomedical engineers at the University of Toronto have shown that they can grow new nerve cells in a block of 3D hydrogel scaffold, a very early step toward repairing spinal cord and other nerve injuries.

  • Annual Review Redux
    For the second year in a row, the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering was the most cited of the 42 top biomedical engineering journals, according to the Institute for Scientific Information.

  • Circular Heart Pump
    A team of biomedical engineers from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have created a prototype for a potentially cheaper, safer, and more efficient heart pump.

  • Thought Guided Cursor
    Four adults have quickly learned to play a simple video game, and win, by using only their thoughts to control the computer.

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  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • George W. Thorn Dies
    George W. Thorn, M.D., a world-renowned physician who changed the way kidney disease is treated and whose vision inspired The Whitaker Foundation for nearly two decades, has died at the age of 98.

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • George W. Thorn Dies
    George W. Thorn, M.D., a world-renowned physician who changed the way kidney disease is treated and whose vision inspired The Whitaker Foundation for nearly two decades, has died at the age of 98.

  • Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

  • Workshop on Bone Mechanics

  • George W. Thorn Dies
    George W. Thorn, M.D., a world-renowned physician who changed the way kidney disease is treated and whose vision inspired The Whitaker Foundation for nearly two decades, has died at the age of 98.

  • Breast Cancer Detector
    A light sensitive probe is being developed to help doctors spot breast cancer in some of the 70,000 American women each year whose malignancies fail to show up in needle biopsies.

  • Third Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering

  • Computational Modeling
    Four federal agencies are soliciting grant applications for developing and disseminating tools for computational modeling of biological, biomedical and behavioral sciences. Letters of intent are due Sept. 22.

  • 2005 Summer Bioengineering Conference

  • Coulter Grant Programs
    The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has announced two new grant programs, one for individual investigators early in their careers and another for leading universities in North America.

  • Quantum Dots Tag Prostate Cancer
    Quantum dots, tiny beads that glow in rainbow colors, can zero in with pinpoint accuracy on human prostate cancer.

  • La Jolla Workshop Summaries
    Download PowerPoint summaries of the workshops held at the Whitaker annual conference in La Jolla earlier this month.

  • NIH Proposal Writing
    These tips on writing a successful grant proposal to the NIH were presented in August 2004 at the foundation's annual conference in La Jolla by Savio Woo of UCSD.

  • Graduate Training to Combine Biological and Physical Wciences and Engineering
    A private philanthropy and the federal government will create new graduate research training programs that combine biological and physical sciences and engineering.

  • Graduate Training Programs
    The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health will build on Whitaker Foundation programs by joining together to support graduate research training that combines biological and physical sciences and engineering.

  • Improved Defibrillator Design
    Biomedical engineers have a new concept for implantable defibrillators that would be more comfortable for heart patients and more effective as lifesavers.

  • IEEE EMBS Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology

  • Annual International Conferece of the IEEE EMBS

  • IEEE EMBS Conferrence on Neural Engineering

  • Biomedical Engineer Wins Genius Award
    Biomedical engineer Angela Belcher, whose laboratory viruses can manufacture wires that are billionths of a meter wide, has won a 2004 Genius Award from the MacArthur Foundation.

  • Radiation Therapy
    Researchers are combining diagnostic imaging with therapeutic imaging to improve radiation treatment for prostate cancer.

  • Nanotubes for Joints
    Stronger than steel, more durable than diamond, carbon nanotubes can be aligned to stimulate bone growth in a way that might make better and longer lasting artificial joints.

  • 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference

  • Whitaker Transitional Award Deadline
    The final day for receiving requests for Whitaker Foundation Transitional Awards is December 31. Theses grants bridge the time between the end of the Whitaker Research Grant and the beginning of major support from another source. Qualified principal investigators on Whitaker Research Grants may apply.

  • Engineering & the Physical Sciences in Medicine Conference

  • 31st Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference

  • Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

  • Society for Thermal Medicine Annual Meeting

  • Neural Hydrodynamics Symposium

  • Website is Rich in Biomedical Engineering Data
    Find experts, collaborators, students, courses, educational topics, textbooks, and other key information about the field of biomedical engineering using a new website offered to the public free of charge by The Whitaker Foundation.

  • Whitaker Conference Awards

  • Stem Cell Research Hints at Better Looking Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery
    Stem cell researchers have shown how cosmetic surgery, such as wrinkle removal and breast augmentation, might be improved with natural implants that keep their original size and shape better than synthetics.

  • Five Biomedical Engineers Named in National Academy of Engineering Elections
    Five biomedical engineers are among the 74 new members and 10 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

  • Biomedical Engineering Education Summit Wrapup
    Final reports from The Whitaker Foundation's 2005 Biomedical Engineering Education Summit meeting in March have been posted to the foundation web site as ongoing resources for the biomedical engineering community. There is also an updated curriculum database and a showcase of educational innovations in biomedical engineering.

  • Robotic Arm Therapy
    A robotic arm that can be worn at home is being developed to help stroke survivors regain the ability to reach and grasp objects and perform basic tasks such as feed themselves.

  • Nanotechnology for Boosting Immunity
    Darrell Irvine is conducting basic studies on the molecular steps necessary for the human immune system to launch an attach against a foreign invader.

  • Device Assesses Brain Injury Risk in Sports
    Biomedical engineers have built a device to quickly detect mild traumatic brain injury in the heat of sports competition, on the battlefield, in the emergency room, and in other situations where time is of the essence.

  • Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting: Abstract Submission Deadline May 16
    The Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting is in Baltimore, September 28 to- October 1, 2005. The theme of the meeting is The Changing Face of Biomedical Engineering, Celebration of The Whitaker Foundation. The deadline for abstract submission is May 16. Information about the meeting is available at www.bme.jhu.edu/BMES2005/.

  • CT Breast Scanner
    About 190 women are being enrolled in a clinical trial to see if computed tomography can detect breast cancer earlier, and with less discomfort, than standard mammography.

  • Nanotech Tumor Finder
    Biomedical engineers have used nanotechnology to find human melanoma tumors in mice while the growths are still invisible to conventional magnetic resonance imaging.

  • Coating for Implants
    With one side sticky and the other slick, a two sided coating developed by biomedical engineers has shown promise in the lab for prolonging the life and improving the performance of medical implants.

  • IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro

  • 5th World Congress of Biomechanics

  • Investigator Directory and Experts Guide
    The Directory of Whitaker Investigators has been updated by The Whitaker Foundation. The directory includes an extensive list of keywords, making it possible to retrieve contact information for nearly 1,500 investigators based on areas of expertise.

  • Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting

  • Photonics West 2006 Conference, Biomedical Optics Sessions

  • Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2005

  • Hand Held Medical Lab
    Biomedical engineers are designing a diagnostic laboratory the size of a paperback book that field workers could use to quickly and accurately diagnose malaria, measles, flu, and other disorders in remote villages of the developing world.

  • New International Program Announced
    The Whitaker Foundation, which has invested more than $720 million in biomedical engineering education and research, and the Institute of International Education, a world leader in international exchange programs, are launching an international fellows and scholars program for American biomedical engineers early in their careers.

  • 28th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

  • 1st IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

  • 2nd ASM - IEEE EMBS Conference on Bio, Micro, and Nanosystems

  • Grantsmanship Seminar
    The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering will hold its second regional Grantsmanship Seminar on October 17, 2005, at The George Washington University. The one day seminar will be hosted by the Washington Academy of Biomedical Engineering.

  • Tallest of Towers Erected on Tiniest of Scales
    Biomedical engineers have erected some of the tallest of towers on the tiniest of scales by getting biological molecules to do the labor.

  • Computers in Cardiology 2006

  • Dynamic Walking Workshop 2006

  • The 32nd annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference

  • BMES Takes Over Curriculum Database
    The Biomedical Engineering Society is taking over the foundation's curriculum database to keep it going after the foundation closes in June. The new URL is: bmes.seas.wustl.edu

  • Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2006

  • Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2006

  • 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference

  • Audible Acoustics in Medicine and Physiology Symposium

  • Twenty-fourth Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference