Biomedical Engineering and The Whitaker Foundation: A Thirty-Year Partnership
Biomedical Engineering and The Whitaker Foundation: A Thirty-Year Partnership
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生物医学工程和惠特克基金会：三十年的合作伙伴关系
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
P. Katona
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P. Katona
惠特克基金会成立于1976年，将于2006年关闭。它将获得总额为8.05亿美元的奖励，其中生物医学工程超过7.1亿美元。近1500名教职员工获得了研究赠款，以帮助他们建立在生物医学工程的学术生涯，超过400名研究生获得奖学金支持。该基金会还支持加强或建立生物医学工程的教育计划，特别是鼓励部门的形成。生物医学工程系的数量在过去10年中几乎增加了两倍，现在接近75个。利用赠款建造了13座新建筑。随着该领域的稳固建立，支持新教师的赠款计划将是最错过的。然而，随着跨学科研究受到公共和私人资金来源的欢迎，新的机会正在出现。生命科学将越来越多地融入工程的各个领域，预计这种“生物化”将给生物医学工程带来机遇和挑战。
The Whitaker Foundation, established in 1976, will close in 2006. It will have made awards totaling $805 million, with over $710 million in biomedical engineering. Close to 1500 faculty members received research grants to help them establish academic careers in biomedical engineering, and over 400 graduate students received fellowship support. The Foundation also supported the enhancement or establishment of educational programs in biomedical engineering, especially encouraging the formation of departments. The number of biomedical engineering departments almost tripled during the past 10 years, now numbering close to 75. Leveraging of grants enabled the construction of 13 new buildings. With the field firmly established, the grant program supporting new faculty members will be the one missed the most. New opportunities, however, are emerging as interdisciplinary research is being embraced by both public and private funding sources. The life sciences will be increasingly incorporated into all areas of engineering, and it is expected that such “biofication” will pose both opportunities and challenges to biomedical engineering.