The BETA Center is an NIH-wide resource housed by the NIBIB intramural research program and will serve as a new NIH campus model for accelerating technology-driven interdisciplinary research and clinical translation. The BETA Center community will bring researchers together with engineering and imaging expertise including biomedical imaging, biosensing, biomechanics, engineered/synthetic biology, nano/biomaterials, artificial intelligence, modeling, computation, and informatics.
Central to BETA Center’s mission is employing evidence-driven approaches to expand diversity, equity, and inclusion within NIBIB’s Intramural Research Program and serving as a model for recruiting diverse biomedical engineering talent to NIH.
This meeting facilitated meaningful research connections by introducing extramural investigators to NIH resources and IRP engineers, scientists, and clinicians. Recorded plenary sessions may be viewed at NIH videocast.
Dr. Platt's presentation, “Technology for thee, but not for me” focused on the importance of considering the design of technology and the role of the NIH BETA Center in achieving this objective.
The NSF-NIBIB/BETA INTERN opportunity will support research experiences at BETA in areas of biomedical research. The opportunity seeks to fund approximately 8-10 internships in Fiscal Year 2024, providing up to $55,000 per student for a six-month period.
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The BETA Center offers resources to help IRP researchers pursue new directions, technologies, and experimental methods.
Check out opportunities to join intramural research at NIH with BETA Center investigators.
Opportunities
NSF/NIBIB INTERN program
The NSF INTERN program (formally known as Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students) provides graduate students with six-month experiential learning opportunities through research internships where they acquire core professional competencies and skills. Through this collaboration, the internships will take place at the NIBIB Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA) working with intramural researchers on NIH campus.
The NSF-NIBIB/BETA INTERN opportunity will support research experiences at BETA in areas of biomedical research. The opportunity seeks to fund approximately 8-10 internships in Fiscal Year 2024, providing up to $55,000 per student for a six-month period.
BETA Center Staff
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