ANNOUNCEMENTS

BME VIII To Be Held at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , June 8, 2007, 10:25 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Arkansas Biomedical Engineering Forum
Shorey Building Ob/Gyn Conference Room S5-25 (see map in Program document)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

The program for the forum can be found here.
Abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

 

BME VII To Be Held at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The seventh Biomedical Engineering Forum will be held at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, on November 17, 2006, at the Engineering Research Center, in the AT&T Economic Resource Center. The program for the forum can be found here.

Dr. Jerome Schultz: Keynote Speech: Inside the Cell-Advances and Challenges for Bioengineers

 

BME VI Held at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock

The sixth Biomedical Engineering Forum was held at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, on Friday, May 5, 2006. Dr. Yasin Dhaher, Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, presented his seminar titled- “Neuro-Mechanical Constraints for the Understanding of Pathological Gait.” Additional information can be found here at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock website.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Presenters:

Ryan Tian - "New Nanomaterials for Potential Applications in Nanomedicine"

Steve Tung – "Microscale Biomedical Sensors and Actuators - A Mechanical Engineering Perspective "

Jin-Woo Kim - "Bio/Nano Technology for Medicine"

University of Arkansas, Little Rock Presenters:

Mariofanna Milanova – "ICA-motivated Approach to Decomposition and Analysis of Cortical Evoked Potentials”

Doug Wilson – “SARA Research - New Directions”

Yupo Chan – " Panel discussion on "Neuroinformatics."

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Presenters:

William C. Culp – “Ultrasound Augmented Thrombolysi/ Benchtop to Bedside”

Michael J. Borrelli – "High efficiency, nontoxic electroporation delivery of DNA, RNA, Proteins and other macromolecules into mammalian cells”

Richard Rowe – "3D Modeling of Cerebral Vasculature for Surgical Simulation"

Behjatolah M Karbassi – “Role of chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans in cellular adhesion”

 

BME V

The fifth Biomedical Engineering Forum was held at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, on Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Dr. Christine A. Kelly, Director, Division of Discovery Science and Technology at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH presented her seminar titled- “Research and Training Programs and Funding Opportunities at NIBIB/NIH.” A link to Dr. Kelly's presentation can be found here.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Presenters:
Dr. Simon Ang and Dr. Yanbin Li- "Sensors for Brain and Pathogen Detection"

University of Arkansas, Little Rock Presenters:
Dr. Coskun Bayrak- "Uterine Contractions Analysis based on Hilbert-Huang Transform"
Dr. R.B. Govindan- "Extraction and Quantification of fetal RR Intervals"
Dr. Xiaowei Xu- "Data Mining for Medical Applications"

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Presenters:
Dr. Dana Gaddy- "Skeletal Homeostasis: Bone Quality Does not Equal Bone Mass"
Dr. Larry Suva- "Translating Orthopaedic Research into Practice"
Dr. Jimmy Zhou- "Neural Network in the Retina: Development and Function"

The next BME forum will be held at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock campus in Spring 2006.

Kavdia Receives American Heart Association Grant

UA Professor Mahendra Kavdia has been awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) National Scientist Development Grant (SDG) for work on "Nitric Oxide Transport in the Microcirculation." The project aims to quantify biochemical interactions of blood and nitric oxide in the microcirculation using experimental and computational modeling approaches. The grant will provide funding for four years.

Spring Registration Ongoing at UAF

Students may register now for courses at UAF. New Biomedical Engineering courses offered are Mathematical Modeling of Physiological Systems, Biomaterials and Bioinformatics.