Northeast Bioengineering Conference

Next year's Northeast Bioengineering Conference
will be held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and
chaired by Dr. Deepak Vashishth and Dr. Stanley Reisman.
Dates and details TBA.

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2010 HOST

Columbia University
Department of
Biomedical Engineering
New York, NY
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Society for Biomaterials: Columbia University chapter

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Welcome from the Conference Chair

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 36th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, held this year in dynamic Manhattan. The central location of the conference will be the newly restored Faculty House at Columbia University, with two satellite locations within a 5-minute walk: the historic Low Library (for Friday) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (for the concurrent session on Saturday and Sunday).

Keeping with the strong tradition of the Northeast Bioengineering Conference, we promise to create a conference allowing for new friendships and the exchange of ideas on bioengineering-related research. Our meeting will feature over 200 presentations from 40-plus institutions, including talks by leaders across different fields of bioengineering. As in the past, since IEEE-EMBS will serve as a technical co-sponsor of this event, the conference proceedings will be published in IEEExplore. Also, we are delighted to showcase an entire day of biomaterial-related topics, in a collaboration led by Prof. Helen Lu with financial support by the Society of Biomaterials.

The theme of this year's meeting is "Biomedical Engineering for Society." In the midst of a national discussion on transforming our health-care infrastructure, the role of biomedical engineering has never been more important. We are thrilled that the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has endorsed this meeting, and will hold a session on how bioengineers can advocate for the future of engineering, on Capitol Hill and across the country. Also critical in the health-care debate is the ability to translate novel research developments into products that will improve the health of patients. In conjunction with Columbia Technology Ventures, we will feature a medical technology showcase on emerging medical-device technologies from some of the most promising industry players in the northeast.

I would like to extend my sincerest gratitude to our financial sponsors, especially our diamond sponsor, the National Science Foundation (Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems). We would also like to thank Johnson & Johnson, Corning, and the New York Economic Development Council for their generous contributions. Their support is especially meaningful under the current economic climate, and is what enables accessible and broad participation from undergraduate students – tomorrow's biomedical engineers. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University has also provided generous support to this meeting, for which I am very grateful.

Finally, I would like to thank each member of our organizational committee for their tremendous commitment and professionalism. Without the benefit of a full-time meeting staff, our group of undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University (many of whom are members of the local chapters of SFB and IEEE-EMBS) spent countless hours to ensure the success of this event. I would especially like to thank Molly Flexman and Andrea Casteñada for their fantastic job in leading the abstract review process.

Sincerely,

Dr. Samuel K. Sia
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace, MC 8904
500 West 120th Street
New York, NY, 10027, USA

NOTE: 2010 NEBEC will be held in conjunction with the Columbia University Biomaterials Day.

More information about the Columbia SFB chapter can be found here.

NEBEC is pleased to partner with Columbia Technology Ventures and other leading research institutions in New York City to present the NYC Emerging MedTech Showcase, a special pre-conference event that will feature the best of NYC's emerging medical technology companies and spin-out ready device and biomaterial technologies.

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