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Contents

• General Health Information
• Bioengineering and Bioimaging at the NIH
  • NIH Special Interest Groups
  • NIH Reports
• Bioengineering and Bioimaging Topics
  • Bioimaging
  • Bioinformatics
  • Image-Guided Interventions
  • Nanotechnology
  • Sensor Technology
  • Tissue Engineering/Reparative Medicine
• Research at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences (Team Science)
• Other Organizations
  • Federal Agencies
  • Foundations
  • Societies
  • Universities
  • Foreign Bioengineering Organizations

General Health Information

• Medline Plus  - Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
• Healthfinder - Resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. 
• Participating in a Clinical Trial - Current information about clinical research studies.

Bioengineering and Bioimaging at the NIH

NIH Special Interest Groups

• NIH Molecular and Functional Optical Imaging Special Interest Group
• NIH Bioinstrumentation Interest Group
• NIH Biophysics Interest Group
• NIH Image Processing Interest Group
• NIH Scientific Group Home Page

NIH Reports

• Update on the Panel on Scientific Boundaries for Review Reorganization September 2004
• Report of the NIH Working Group on Review of Bioengineering and Technology and Instrumentation Development Research The Huntsman Report, May 1999 
• Science Article - Multidisciplinary Research: NIH Plans Bioengineering Initiative June 1998 
• Support for Bioengineering Research External Consultants Report, 1995
• Support for Bioengineering Research NIH Report, 1994
  
• Recommendations for Change at the NIH's Center for Scientific Review The Boundaries Report Resources
• Imaging Sciences Program at the NIH Clinical Center
• Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science Coordinating Committee (NIBIB page)
• Trans-NIH Scientific Initiatives Web Site

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Bioengineering and Bioimaging Topics

Bioimaging

• NIH Bioimaging Web Site

Bioinformatics

• NIH Bioinformatics Web Site
• The Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI), Report by the Working Group on Biomedical Computing June 1999
• National Library of Medicine - National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Neuroinformatics at NIMH - The Human Brain Project
• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Image-Guided Interventions

• World Electronic Book of Surgery - Collection of Educational Programs in Laparoscopic Surgery

Nanotechnology

• BECON Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium June 25-26, 2000
• National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Web Site
• Definition of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, OMB Interagency Definition August 28, 2000 (BECON site)
• National Nanotechnology Initiative Implementation Plan, AIP Bulletin August 2000 (BECON site)
• NSTC Definition of Nanotechnology - June 12, 2000  (BECON site)
• Nanotechnology Research Directions IWGN Report, January 2000
• Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom NSTC Report, December 1999

Sensor Technology

• WTEC Panel Report on International Research and Development in Biosensors August 2004 (Adobe PDF [4.09M])
• Assessment of European, Japanese, and U.S. Research and Development in Biosensing May 13, 2003
• Sensors in Biology and Medicine Report of BECON 2002 Symposium, June 24-25, 2002 (Adobe PDF [1.21M])
• The New Challenges of Chemical and Biological Sensing Report from NSF Workshop, January 9-10, 2002

Tissue Engineering/Reparative Medicine

• BECON Symposium: Reparative Medicine: Growing Tissues and Organs June 25-56, 2001(BECON)
• Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science (MATES) Working Group
• WTEC Study on Tissue Engineering
• Biomaterials Network

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Research at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences (Team Science)

• National Laboratories and Universities: Building New Ways to Work Together - NMAB and BMED Report 2005, National Academies Press
• Conference on Research at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences: Bridging the Sciences November 9, 2004
• Interagency Workshop on Research at the Interface of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences May 10, 2004
• Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research - NAS, NAE, and IOM Report 2004, National Academies Press (Adobe PDF [370K])
• BECON 2003 Symposium on Catalyzing Team Science June 23-24, 2003
• Multidisciplinary Research: NIH Plans Bioengineering Initiative 1998

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Other Agencies and Foundations

Federal Agencies

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
  • DOE Biomedical Engineering Program
  • DOE BME Research Program Announcement LAB 01-14
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (FDA/CDRH Program)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL)
  • Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL)
  • Advanced Technology Program (NIST-ATP)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF Division of Bioengineering and Biological Systems

Foundations

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Whitaker Foundation

Societies

• Academy of Radiology Research
• American Board of Nuclear Medicine
• American College of Radiology
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• American Roentgen Ray Society
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Bioengineering Division
• American Society for Cell Biology
• American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
• Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• IEEE-EMBS - Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE
• Society for Biomaterials
• WashCAS - Washington DC Computer Assisted Surgery Society

Universities

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lally School of Management and Technology - Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship Seminar Series

Foreign Bioengineering Organizations

• The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society
• International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
• International Union for Physics and Engineering Sciences in Medicine