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  2. Division of Discovery Science & Technology (Bioengineering)

Division of Discovery Science & Technology (Bioengineering)

This division supports the development and demonstration of modular platform technologies (without preference for any disease or application) that manipulate and interface with biology to enable new paradigms of clinical intervention for human health.

Core Program Areas: Biotransducers Cluster

Biochemical Engineering

Luisa Russell, Ph.D.

Bioelectromagnetic Engineering

Moria Fisher Bittmann, Ph.D.

Biomechanical Engineering

Moria Fisher Bittmann, Ph.D.

Biophotonic Engineering

David Rampulla, Ph.D.

Core Program Areas: Bioengineered Systems Cluster

Rehabilitation Engineering

Michael Wolfson, Ph.D.

Mathematical Modeling

Grace C.Y. Peng, Ph.D.

Robotic Systems

Moria Fisher Bittmann, Ph.D.

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David Rampulla, Ph.D.

Core Program Areas: Translation and Commercialization Cluster

Resource Centers for Bioengineering Technologies

Ilana Goldberg, Ph.D.

Small Business

Ilana Goldberg, Ph.D.

Collaborations

An important aspect of the Institute’s mission is encouraging collaborations among the institutes and centers at NIH, other federal agencies, and the private sector.

  • Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) – IMAG brings together program officers across federal agencies to communicate, disseminate, and plan collaborative activities and joint initiatives related to computational and analytical modeling and analysis of biomedical, biological, and behavioral systems, see IMAG Research. IMAG also hosts the NIH Population Modeling Scientific Interest Group and the Multi-scale Modeling (MSM) Consortium.
     
  • Synthetic Biology Consortium (SBC) - The SBC is a trans-NIH effort to foster collaborations among researchers and share synthetic biology technologies to address unmet needs in biology and medicine.

Division Staff

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