Biomedical engineering

Various novel applications in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, information industry, and microelectronics involve the use of polymeric microspheres with controlled size and surface properties [1-31. Traditionally, the polymer microspheres larger than 100 /urn with a certain size distribution have been produced by the suspension polymerization process, where the monomer droplets are broken into micron-size in the existence of a stabilizer and are subsequently polymerized within a continuous medium by using an oil-soluble initiator. Suspension polymerization is usually preferred for the production of polymeric particles in the size range of 50-1000 /Ltm. But, there is a wide size distribution in the product due to the inherent size distribution of the mechanical homogenization and due to the coalescence problem. The size distribution is measured with the standard deviation or the coefficient of variation (CV) and the suspension polymerization provides polymeric microspheres with CVs varying from 15-30%. 

The United States occupies the preeminent scientific position in the "new" biology. If America is to derive the maximum benefit of its investment in basic biological research—whether in the form of better health, improved agriculture, a cleaner environment, or more efficient production of chemicals—it must also assume a preeminent position in biochemical and biomedical engineering. This can be accomplished by carrying out generic research in the following areas ... 

Ph.D. students must be prepared for the interdisciplinary environment in which they will likely spend their careers as biochemical or biomedical engineers. The best way to do this is to expose them to interdisciplinary research as graduate students. To facilitate this, a broad and stable base of research support targeted at interdisciplinary research must be created. Particularly valuable would be support targeted to... 

A number of other factors will be important in sustaining a vital research effort in biochemical and biomedical engineering. These include ... 

Administration (FDA) approval of SIBS, used as the polymeric coating on the Taxus coronary stent, opened new avenues for polyisobutylene-based TPEs in biomedical engineering. 

Schacht E, Vandorpe J, Crommen J, Seymur L (1996) In Ogata N, Kim SW, Feijen J, Okano T (eds) Advanced biomaterials in biomedical engineering and grug delivery systems. Springer, Tokyo, p 81... 

Kam Leong Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland... 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, National University of Ireland-... 

Gottlieb, A.G., Fram, D.M., Whitehead, S.F., Rubin, G.M., Russell, C.H., Castleman, P.A., Webb, F.N., "CLINFO A Friendly Computer System for Clinical Research", XII International Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering, Jerusalem, Israel, 1979. 

FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer St., Tallahassee FL 32310, USA... 

WILEY SERIES IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INTEGRATED SYSTEMS... 

Department of Biomedical Engineering 5-7-1 Fujishiro-dai, Suita Osaka, 565-8565 Japan... 

Hua Dong, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 70 Nanyang Drive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637457... 

Petr Bures, Departments of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, and Division of Pharmaceutics, CPE 3.466, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0231, USA (75)... 

Michael V. Sefton, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G9 Canada (1)... 

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