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Agenda September 2025

Sixty-Ninth Meeting

NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING

The Neuroscience Center
6001 Executive Blvd. Room 1135/45/55
Rockville, MD

September 16, 2025
Agenda

View Videocast at: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=56968

OPEN SESSION

9:00 a.m. Call to Order and Welcome
Anna Taylor, PhD

9:10 a.m. Director’s Report
Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD

10:50 a.m. Break

11:10 a.m. Concept Clearance: Bioengineering Research, Innovation and Technology Education Program (BRITE Program)
Tina Gatlin, PhD

11:30 a.m. Concept Clearance: Technology Development Network
Luisa Russell, PhD

11:50 a.m. Concept Clearance: SBIR RADx
Todd Merchak

12:00 p.m. Lopez Lecture: Guiding Sound with Magnetism: MRI for Targeting Transcranial Focused Ultrasound
William A. Grissom, PhD

1:00 p.m. Adjourn

CLOSED SESSION

This session of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions in Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552(b)(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C. and Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).

2:00 p.m. Charge to Council, including conflict of interest and confidentiality information
Anna Taylor, PhD
Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD

2:10 p.m. Review of grant applications

4:00 p.m. Adjourn

FUTURE COUNCIL DATES

2026 – Monday, January 26; Wednesday, May 20; Tuesday, September 15

2027 – Thursday, January 21; Tuesday, May 18; Wednesday, September 15

SPEAKERS

Tina Gatlin, PhD
Program Director, NIBIB
Bethesda, MD

William A. Grissom, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Todd Merchak
Director, Office of Program Evaluation and Strategic Partnerships, NIBIB
Bethesda, MD

Luisa Russell, PhD
Program Director, NIBIB
Bethesda, MD

Anna R. Taylor, PhD
Associate Director for Research Administration, NIBIB
Acting Deputy Director, NIBIB
Bethesda, MD

Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD
Director, NIBIB
Bethesda, MD