Bioengineering student research

Being a physician is an excellent career choice, and medical school is an option that bioengineering students may want to consider. While some of the issues involved have been raised here, students definitely will need to do more research before embarking on this career path. Students may find the reading list at the end of the chapter useful in this regard. 

Another challenge this book strives to address results from the interdisciplinary nature of the field of biocatalysis. Biocatalysis is a synthesis of chemistry, biology, chemical engineering, and bioengineering, but most students and practitioners enter this field with preparation essentially limited to one of the major contributing areas, or at best two. The essence of biocatalysis, as well as most of its current research, however, is captured in the interdisciplinary overlap between individual areas. Therefore, this work seeks to help readers to combine their prior knowledge with the contents and the methods in this book to make an integrated whole. 

It is our belief that this book provides distinctive knowledge to pharmaceutical scientists, bioengineers, and graduate students in the related fields and can serve as a comprehensive guide and reference to their research and study. 

In addition to supporting the research community, the book may also be useful as a teaching tool for bioengineering, biomedical engineering, and biology faculty and students. To better represent the field, most topics are covered by more than one chapter. The purpose of this redundancy is to try to include several alternative approaches for the topics, so as to help the reader choose an appropriate design. 

This textbook will allow an easy access into the field especially for advanced and graduate students as well as experienced researchers in natural sciences and biomedical specialists entering the field or being interested in and working at the interface between polymeric materials and biomedicine. Target study areas are bioengineering, biomaterials science, biomedical science, chemistry biophysics, polymer science, and regenerative medicine. 

The present book is aimed at a relatively broad readership that includes advanced undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry, physics and engineering, postdoctoral associates and specialists from both academia and industry who cany out research in the fields that require molecular and QSA(P)R modeling. This book could also be useful to students in biochemistry, stractural biology, bioengineering, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical chemistry, as well as other related areas, who have an interest in molectrlar-level computational techniques. 

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