WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) recognizes President Obama’s remarks in his 2012 State of the Union Address. Continue reading »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has selected Anne Meyer, Ph.D., as the 2012 recipient of the Fellow Advocate Award. The Fellow Advocate Award was created to recognize a Fellow who has made outstanding contributions to advancing federal policies assisting the field of medical and biological engineering. Continue reading »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has selected Arthur Coury, Ph.D., as the 2012 recipient of the Pierre Galletti Award. The Galletti Award is the highest honor that AIMBE bestows on an individual.

Dr. Coury, a Fellow of AIMBE, was nominated for the award for seminal contributions to the design and commercialization of pacemakers, biodegradable biomaterials, and implantable devices and for leadership in medical and biological engineering and public policy issues. Continue reading »

In the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, signed into law by President Obama in January 2011, Congress called upon OSTP to oversee creation of a detailed catalogue of all Federal STEM education programs. Today, in response, OSTP released The Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Portfolio… Continue reading »

In June 2011, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) hosted a meeting in Palo Alto, California, “A Call to Action: Defining the Industry-Academic Relationships for Effective Technology Transfer in Medical and Biological Engineering.”  The meeting attracted 80 … Continue reading »

Washington, DC– The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has recently announced the election of 107 members to the College of Fellows. The inductees, who were nominated by their peers, were screened by committees of Fellows within their specialty and were finally elected by the full College as the official Class of 2012… Continue reading »

IOM’s 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to a number of efforts to reduce errors and provide safe … Continue reading »

Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the head of the FDA, put out a blueprint for spurring innovation in the life sciences today, saying there aren’t enough new products in the med-tech pipeline to suit her… Continue reading »

Professor Simon Cherry has today been announced as the new Editor-in-Chief of the leading international journal Physics in Medicine & Biology(PMB). Published by IOP Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, PMB covers the application … Continue reading »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The White House has announced that AIMBE Founding Fellow and Past President, Shu Chien, of the University of California, San Diego, will be receiving the National Medal of Science, awarded by President Barack Obama… Continue reading »