International Travel Grant: The First Korea-U.S. Joint Seminar on Biomedical Engineering

9812245董首届韩美生物医学工程联合研讨会将于1998年5月21-23日举行。这次会议的总体目标是促进和建立韩国和美国在生物医学工程领域的具体关系。生物医学工程是韩国最近启动的18个国家项目之一。这次联合国际研讨会旨在提供机会分享美国和韩国最近的生物医学研究活动，更重要的是，在两国之间建立合作研究关系。与韩国科学和工程基金会发展合作的一个隐含的目的是建立一种生产性机制，确保来自新的和重要的生物医学工程研究的成果将移交给双方。预期研讨会的一项重要成果是确定未来合作的优先领域。因此，这次研讨会将包括一些代表生物医学工程领域的专家：细胞和组织工程、生物力学、仪器设备、生物医学成像、生物材料和人体生理功能。在韩国逗留期间，参加研讨会的12名美国人将实地访问韩国领先的研究中心，如大德综合研究所和韩国科学技术研究所，从而提供更多机会讨论潜在的研究合作。

9812245 Dong The First Korea-U.S. Joint Seminar on Biomedical Engineering is to occur during May 21-23, 1998. The general objectives of the meeting are to promote and establish a concrete relationship between Korea and the U.S. in the biomedical engineering field. Biomedical Engineering is one of the 18 recently initiated national projects in Korea. This joint international seminar is designed to provide opportunities to share recent biomedical research activities in both the U.S. and Korea, and, importantly, to establish collaborative research relationships between the two countries. An implicit purpose of developing cooperation with the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation is to engage in a productive mechanism that ensures the results from novel and important biomedical engineering research will devolve to both parties. An important outcome expected form the seminar is the identification of priority areas for future cooperation. Therefore, the seminar is designed to include experts representing a number of areas of biomedical engineering: cell and tissue engineering, biomechanics, instrumentation; biomedical imaging; biomaterials; and human physiological functions.The Seminar is a satellite meeting of the Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering "1998 Spring Conference". During their stay in Korea, the 12 U.S. participants in the Seminar will make site visits to leading Korea research centers such as the Daeduk Research Complex and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, thereby providing additional opportunities to discuss potential research collaborations.***