2008 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC)

第30届IEEE医学与生物工程学会年会将于2008年8月20日至24日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华召开。本次会议的主题是：“通过技术实现个性化医疗”。本课程的重点是将生物工程方法转化为临床个体化医学的实践。大会主席是Guy Dumont博士科学项目主席是Paolo Vicini博士。联合主席是博士。分别是亨利埃塔·加利亚娜和何塞·普林西比。会议的预期受众非常多样化，涵盖了主题领域和专业知识的广泛差异（包括工程师、科学家、医学研究人员、从业人员、教育工作者和学生）。专题领域包括生物医学工程各个领域，其中传统领域如信号处理、神经工程、图像处理等与新兴领域如组织工程、技术商业化等并存。跨学科研究是生物工程的前沿，会议参加者的构成将反映这一点。会议的科学计划包括口头科学会议、海报会议和受邀的小型专题讨论会。除了在会议论文集中发表外，所提供的口头和海报报告也将被审核并纳入PubMed可搜索数据库。本次R13提案的目的是寻求注册和旅行资金，以增加初级科学家（研究生，博士后和初级教师）对会议科学活动的参与。本R13提案寻求注册和旅行资金，以增加初级科学家（研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师）参加第30届IEEE医学与生物工程学会年会的科学活动。生物医学工程是目前学术和应用工程中发展最快的领域，对最先进的培训有很强的需求。这样做的目的是扩大青年科学家对这一大型国际会议的科学活动的参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The 30th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between August 20 and 24, 2008. The theme for the conference is: "Personalized Healthcare through Technology". The intended emphasis is on the translation of bioengineering approaches to the practice of clinical individualized medicine. The General Conference Chair is Dr. Guy Dumont and the Scientific Program Chair is Dr. Paolo Vicini. Co-Chairs are Drs. Henrietta Galiana and Jose Principe, respectively. The intended audience for the conference is very diverse, encompassing broad variation in thematic areas and expertise (including engineers, scientists, medical researchers, practitioners, educators, and students). Thematic areas include all of biomedical engineering diverse fields, among which traditional ones, such as signal processing, neural engineering and image processing, coexist together with emerging areas such as tissue engineering and technology commercialization. Interdisciplinary research is very much at the forefront of bioengineering, and the composition of the conference attendees will reflect this. The scientific program of the conference is articulated among oral scientific sessions, poster sessions and invited mini-symposia. Contributed oral and poster presentations are refereed and included in the PubMed searchable database, in addition to being published in the conference proceedings. The aim of this R13 proposal is to seek registration and travel funds to increase the participation of junior scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty) to the scientific activities of the conference. This R13 proposal seeks registration and travel funds to increase the participation of junior scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty) to the scientific activities of the 30th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Biomedical engineering is currently the fastest growing area in academic and applied engineering and there is a strong need for state of the art training. The intent of this is to broaden participation by junior scientists in the scientific activities of this large international meeting.