Building Bridges Across NIH and the Broader Engineering Community

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National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Watch the NIH videocast recording of plenary session.

This meeting aims to facilitate meaningful research connections by introducing extramural investigators to NIH resources and engineers, scientists, and clinicians from the Intramural Research Program (IRP).

Welcome remarks will be given by NIH Director Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D. The event will feature abstract-driven talks, poster sessions, panel discussions, networking opportunities, and two plenary speakers:

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Bioengineering and Medicine: Personalized Diagnostics, AI, and Printing Cellular Machines

Rashid Bashir, Ph.D., Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Bone Marrow Transplants and Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

John Tisdale, M.D., Senior Investigator, Director of Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

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Building Bridges is being led by the BETA Center , an NIH-wide resource housed by the NIBIB intramural research program and will serve as a new NIH campus model for accelerating technology-driven interdisciplinary research and clinical translation.

{"end": "2024-10-22T21:30:00", "start": "2024-10-22T13:00:00"} In Person Recording NIBIB Staff Scientist Albert Jin discuss a research poster with conference attendees. NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli delivered a welcome address to kick-off the Building Bridges event remotely and was joined by NIBIB Director Dr. Bruce Tromberg and BETA Center Director Dr. Manu Platt for a discussion. Dr. Manu Platt, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA Center) kicks off the Q&A following a presentation by Dr. Myong-Hee “Mia” Sung, NIA.