TY - JOUR
T1 - A wake-up call for the engineering and biomedical science communities
AU - Chen, Jie
AU - Wong, Stephen
AU - Chang, Joseph
AU - Chung, Pau Choo
AU - Li, Huai
AU - Koc, Ut Va
AU - Prior, Fred
AU - Newcomb, Robert
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Today, only a very small portion of engineers are actively engaged in biomedical research. Of these, only a rare few are funded by the National Institutes
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The theme for our recent workshop on “Biomarker Development and Application,” was a direct result of the NIH roadmap. This workshop, the third in the series, was held in the Lister Hill Auditorium on the NIH campus, and saw the attendance of over 150 engineers and biomedical scientists representing the science and engineering community, industries, and government agencies worldwide. The previous two workshops were jointly sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. The success of the first two workshops led to the third LiSSA meeting sponsored by both IEEE and NIH, and the formation of a joint planning committee for future workshop programs. This committee includes program directors and scientific staff from the NIH institutes involved in the Biomedical Information Science and Technology (BISTI) initiative, as well as the officers and technical committee chairs from seven diverse societies within IEEE. The objective is to have eager electrical and computer engineers apply their expertise and technologies to biomarker development.
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With the burst of Information Technology (IT) bubble at the beginning of this century, people are looking for the next wave of tech- nology in which to invest. While we believe that biomedical applications and systems are this next stage, unfortunately, the engineering and bioscience communities are unprepared for the many challenges. In order to connect the engineering and the biomedical science communities, we established the LifeScience Systems and Applications (LiSSA) Technical Committee within IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2005—an initiative supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through a conference grant to enable dialogue between the engineering and biomedical science communities. Henceforth, we have organized several annual workshops with different themes on the NIH campus. After each workshop, a white paper is published in IEEE circuits and systems magazine to present the major challenges in various chosen theme areas. Recently, we chose “Biomarker Development and Applications” as our workshop theme. For the first time, we invited eight IEEE societies and various NIH institutes to send their representatives for face-to-face dialogue. This article presents the major challenges in biomarker development and applications based on the general consensus of the conference. The aim of the article is to serve as a wake-up call for more engineers to participate in crucial life-science application and systems research.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - With the burst of Information Technology (IT) bubble at the beginning of this century, people are looking for the next wave of technology in which to invest. While we believe that biomedical applications and systems are this next stage, unfortunately, the engineering and bioscience communities are unprepared for the many challenges. In order to connect the engineering and the biomedical science communities, we established the LifeScience Systems and Applications (LiSSA) Technical Committee within IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2005 - an initiative supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through a conference grant to enable dialogue between the engineering and biomedical science communities. Henceforth, we have organized several annual workshops with different themes on the NIH campus. After each workshop, a white paper is published in IEEE circuits and systems magazine to present the major challenges in various chosen theme areas. Recently, we chose "Biomarker Development and Applications" as our workshop theme. For the first time, we invited eight IEEE societies and various NIH institutes to send their representatives for face-to-face dialogue. This article presents the major challenges in biomarker development and applications based on the general consensus of the conference. The aim of the article is to serve as a wake-up call for more engineers to participate in crucial life-science application and systems research.
AB - With the burst of Information Technology (IT) bubble at the beginning of this century, people are looking for the next wave of technology in which to invest. While we believe that biomedical applications and systems are this next stage, unfortunately, the engineering and bioscience communities are unprepared for the many challenges. In order to connect the engineering and the biomedical science communities, we established the LifeScience Systems and Applications (LiSSA) Technical Committee within IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2005 - an initiative supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through a conference grant to enable dialogue between the engineering and biomedical science communities. Henceforth, we have organized several annual workshops with different themes on the NIH campus. After each workshop, a white paper is published in IEEE circuits and systems magazine to present the major challenges in various chosen theme areas. Recently, we chose "Biomarker Development and Applications" as our workshop theme. For the first time, we invited eight IEEE societies and various NIH institutes to send their representatives for face-to-face dialogue. This article presents the major challenges in biomarker development and applications based on the general consensus of the conference. The aim of the article is to serve as a wake-up call for more engineers to participate in crucial life-science application and systems research.
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U2 - 10.1109/MCAS.2009.932557
DO - 10.1109/MCAS.2009.932557
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67650477107
SN - 1531-636X
VL - 9
SP - 69
EP - 77
JO - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
JF - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
IS - 2
M1 - 5067403
ER -