BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH TOPICS
TO BE PRESENTED DURING CONFERENCE AT HILTON UH HOTEL
The 21st annual Houston Conference on Biomedical
Engineering Research will be held Thursday and Friday at the Hilton
University of Houston Hotel and Conference Center.
Nearly 200 papers from area scientists, engineers and researchers
will be presented on topics ranging from robotics, bioinformatics,
aerospace engineering and medical physics to neuroengineering, computational
biology, medical image processing and biotechnology. The Houston
Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology hosts the annual
event.
Featured presenters include Dr. Ferid Murad, who is director of
the Institute for Molecular Medicine, UT-Houston Medical School,
and winner of the 1998 Nobel in Physiology/Medicine and Paolo Bonato,
director, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
at the Harvard Medical School. Murad will be discussing “The
Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Its Application for Drug Development.”
Bonato’s presentation will focus on “Reshaping Health
Care Using Wearable Technology.”
Local and regional institutions represented at the conference include
UH, Rice, UTMB, UT Health Science Center/Houston, Baylor College
of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s, JSC-NASA, UT, Texas A&M,
Baylor, UT Health Science Center/San Antonio and Louisiana Tech.
The conference is open to the public. A registration fee is required
and may be paid at the event.
For information about this event, call (713) 348-3597 or (713)
743-4429. For more information about HSEMB and a detailed schedule
of programs at the conference, visit the Web site http://www.hsemb.org.
WHAT: |
21st Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering
Research |
WHEN: |
8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, and 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 13 |
WHERE: |
Hilton UH Hotel and Conference Center
Entrance 1 |
WHO: |
Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology |
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