August 4, 2006

Methods in Bioengineering Conference

More than 300 scientific leaders from across the world gathered at MIT July 17 for the first annual Methods in Bioengineering Conference, which was co-hosted by the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. The conference focused on leading methodology used in the fields of biomaterials, tissue engineering, stem cells and genomics and showcased state-of-the-art technology from three centers funded by the National Institutes of Health the MGH BioMEMS Resource Center; the Center for Integrated Polymeric Biomaterials at Rutgers University; and the Tissue Engineering Resource Center at Tufts University, Columbia University and MIT. Other sponsors of the event were The Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering, BOSE and the journal Tissue Engineering.