This award will fund the travel expenses of 10 graduate students and post-docs and 25 faculty to participate at the 2nd Advanced Study Institute on Global Healthcare Grand Challenges and Opportunities cosponsored by National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston and the Akdeniz University will be held on July 15-30, 2011, Antalya, Turkey.
The National Academy of Engineering announced the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The committee also praised biomedical and biological engineering as the research field to fulfill the promise of personalized medicine. Included among these 14 challenges were Reverse?Engineering the Brain, Engineer better Medicines and Advance Health Informatics.
An important way of exploiting such information would be through the development of methods that allow doctors to forecast the benefits and side effects of potential treatments or cures. "Reverse-Engineering" the Brain, is an emerging discipline that helps us to understand how the brain works and treats several diseases. It furthermore helps us to develop computerized artificial intelligence. Advanced computer intelligence, in turn, should enable automated diagnosis and prescriptions for treatment. Computerized catalogs of health information will enhance the medical system's ability to track the spread of disease and analyze the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to prevention and therapy. Finally, engineering new medicines will help us fight the growing danger of attacks from novel disease-causing agents. For instance, certain deadly bacteria have repeatedly evolved new properties, conferring resistance against even the most powerful antibiotics. New viruses arise with the power to kill and spread more rapidly than disease-prevention systems are designed to counteract.
Intellectual Merits: The main objective of the Advanced Summer Institute on Global Healthcare -- Challenges and Opportunities is to highlight and discuss these emerging grand challenges, mainly focused on the latest advances in the areas of science, engineering, technology and medicine. The institute provides a unique environment to discuss the emerging research areas, challenges and opportunities which lead to very fruitful discussions.
Broader Impacts: It exposes the attendees with biology and medicine backgrounds to the latest developments in these emerging enabling technologies. It is also helpful to those with engineering and science background who are interested in doing research in bionanoscience and nanomedicine, neuroscience and engineering since the advanced institute provides exceptional insights into the fundamental challenges in biology and medici
The National Academy of Engineering announced the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The committee also praised biomedical and biological engineering as the research field to fulfill the promise of personalized medicine. Reverse–Engineering the Brain, Engineer better Medicines and Advance Health Informatics were included among the fourteen challenges. An important way of exploiting such information would be through the development of methods that allow doctors to forecast the benefits and side effects of potential treatments or cures. "Reverse-Engineering" the Brain is an emerging discipline that helps us understand how the brain works and treats several diseases. It further helps us to develop computerized artificial intelligence. Advanced computer intelligence, in turn, should enable automated diagnosis and prescriptions for treatment. Computerized catalogs of health information will enhance the medical system's ability to track the spread of disease and analyze the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to prevention and therapy. Finally, engineering new medicines will help us fight the growing danger of attacks from novel disease-causing agents. The main objective of the 2nd US-Turkey Advanced Summer Institute on Global Healthcare Challenges and Opportunities was to focus on the latest advances in the areas of science, engineering, technology and medicine, in addition to discussing some these emerging grand challenges. The institute provided a unique environment to discuss the emerging research areas, challenges and opportunities which lead to very fruitful discussions. The Institute has four separate themes including Advances in BioMolecular Engineering Advances in Molecular and Cellular Imaging From *Omics to Behaviors Advances in Sensory and Motor Prostheses Each theme has at least 4 plenary (distinguished) and 1 invited (junior faculty, post-docs and graduate students) speakers with very diverse backgrounds and 2-hour panel discussion with the participation of all speakers in the same day including the plenary and invited speakers. It exposed the attendees with biology and medicine backgrounds to the latest developments in these emerging enabling technologies. It was also helpful to those with engineering and science background who are interested in doing research in bionanoscience, nanomedicine, neuroscience and engineering since the advanced institute provides exceptional insights into the fundamental challenges in biology and medicine.
