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News Releases: July - September 2004

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• September

August

August 2, 2004: Fourth BRP Grantee Meeting Conducted on July 29-30

The Fourth Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) Grantee Meeting was conducted on July 29-30, 2004, at the Bethesda Hyatt Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The Bioengineering Research Partnership Program is coordinated by the NIH Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) and requires research teams (academic, industrial, clinical, and national laboratory partnerships) with clinical and quantitative science components to conduct biomedical research. A total of about 200 people attended this meeting including about 140 BRP grantees. The purpose of the meeting was to facilitate communication (l) among the grantees with the intent of generating additional research collaborations and (2) between NIH and grantees to discuss research results, research policies, and program input.

The program consisted of oral summary presentations of projects in their second and fifth years and poster displays for projects in the first, third, and fourth years. A “NIH Update” session was conducted to communicate the latest information on NIH extramural policy, technology transfer, NIH Roadmap initiatives, and review of bioengineering proposals. A featured luncheon presentation on “Bioengineering and the Whitaker Foundation” was given by Dr. Peter Katona, President of the Whitaker Foundation. Special awards were presented to Dr. Katona for his many contributions to the field of bioengineering and to Mollie Sourwine of the NIBIB for her valuable contributions to the NIH Bioengineering Consortium.

Details of the meeting including the program; conference book (includes summaries of all BRP grants); PDF files of the grantee presentations, “NIH Update” talks, and featured luncheon presentation; and photographs of the meeting are available.

The BECON is administered by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The Chair of the BECON is Dr. Daniel Sullivan of the National Cancer Institute. Details about the Consortium are available on the BECON Web site at http://www.becon.nih.gov/becon.htm.

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September

September 17, 2004: NIBIB to Host Blue Ribbon Panel on Intramural Research 

On September 17, 2004 the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) will host a Blue Ribbon Panel on Intramural Research. The purpose of this panel is to provide recommendations to the National Advisory Council on Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NACBIB) and the NIBIB Director on the planning and development of an intramural research program within the NIBIB. More specifically, the charge to this panel will be to provide recommendations on scientific directions, unique research opportunities, and possibilities for collaboration. An agenda for this meeting can be found at the following link: Blue Ribbon Panel on NIBIB Intramural Research Agenda (Adobe PDF [73.3K]).

September 27, 2004: HHMI/NIBIB Interdisciplinary Research Training Program Partnership

NIBIB and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have joined forces to provide start-up funds and sustaining support for graduate training programs that integrate the biomedical sciences with the physical sciences and engineering. HHMI will award up to 10 three-year grants of as much as $1 million each to support the development and early phases of the interdisciplinary programs. NIBIB will provide five additional years of support to the HHMI grantees through peer-reviewed institutional training grants.

In October 2004, HHMI will open a competition for up to 10 grants to educational institutions, totaling as much as $1 million each. The grants will be awarded in November 2005. All U.S. institutions that grant Ph.D. degrees in the biological and physical sciences will be eligible for the three-year awards.

For additional information on this program, view the HHMI program announcement at http://www.hhmi.org/grants/institutions/nibib.html.

To view the NIH press release, visit the http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2004/nibib-27.htm. The view the HHMI press release, visit http://www.hhmi.org/news/092704.html.

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