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4th Annual
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hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) |
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| The Fourth Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) Grantee Meeting was conducted on July 29-30, 2004, at the Hyatt Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The BRP 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 fostering new 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); PowerPoint files of the grantee presentations, “NIH Update” talks, and featured luncheon presentation; and photographs of the meeting are available using the links indicated after this text. 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 . |
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Conference Book
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