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The global bioengineering network

The global bioengineering network. Erwin Gianchandani Executive Director of BMEplanet & Director of Innovation Networking. Tom Skalak Vice President for Research & Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Presented by. O FFICE OF THE V ICE P RESIDENT FOR R ESEARCH.

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The global bioengineering network

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  1. The global bioengineering network Erwin Gianchandani Executive Director of BMEplanet & Director of Innovation Networking Tom Skalak Vice President for Research &Professor of Biomedical Engineering Presented by OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

  2. Overview● Collaboration suite ● Development status ● Conclusions Overview

  3. BME as a field is multi-faceted Orthopaedics (tissue, bone, joint replacement, cell and tissue regeneration Cardiology (cardiac perfusion imaging, nuclear/ultrasound imaging) Computer science (bioinformatics, grid computing, simulations) Radiology (MR cardiac imaging, lung imaging, contrast agents, cell tracking) Biomedical engineering Mechanical engineering (drug infusion technology, biomechanics, nanomechanics) Chemical Engineering (engineered biosurfaces, biomolecular engineering, metabolic engineering) Materials science (protein nanopatterning, quantum dots, biomaterials) Systems Engineering (systems integration, data fusion, complex systems modeling) Electrical engineering (bioimage processing, self-assembly, electronic interfaces, bioMEMs)

  4. A global sustainable network will… • Facilitate new person-to-person links • Accelerate BME education, research, and innovation • International corporate internships • Multi-university design projects • Capstone incubators for translational knowledge • Enhanced corporate access for new markets • Raise the awareness of the field globally • Increase productivity and improve human health/dignity • Experiential education of bioengineering talent for the workforce • Enhanced translation of bioengineering knowledge to products and services in the clinic • Funded by the Kauffman Foundation • Nov. 2008-Oct. 2009 • Funded by the National Science Foundation • Feb. 2007-Feb. 2010

  5. Building a global network 270 organizations. 44 countries. 6 continents. Powering Web 2.0 solutions that accelerate bioengineering research, education, innovation.

  6. Overview● Collaboration suite● Development status ● Conclusions Web 2.0 collaboration suite • Professional networking • Opportunities • Collaborative project workspaces • Ideas

  7. A “one-stop-shop” for our community • Create a personalized profile to establish one’s self within the community, find colleagues (called “contacts”) for new collaborations (i.e., “network”), etc. • Find opportunities(jobs, internships, funding, etc.) throughout the world; for students, internships would enable immersive, experiential education during their formative training • Create collaborative project workspaces to accelerate file-sharing, blogging • Faculty and students publicizing and innovating upon emerging ideas, new discoveries, late-breaking technologies, etc., into the mainstream to enhance translation of knowledge into products and services

  8. Professional networking • User-generated professional profiles of BME faculty, students, corporate representatives, entrepreneurs, investors, etc. • Can search for colleagues and make new “contacts” through the website • Effectively an online address book • Internal messaging system enables access quick and easy communication with colleagues

  9. Opportunities • Corporate representatives, small business owners, entrepreneurs, etc., can post job or internship openings • Research faculty can post openings for graduate student or postdoctoral fellows • Interested parties can apply directly through the website by submitting their resume/CV and cover letter • Further exchanges (e.g., interviews) are done offline

  10. Collaborative project workspaces • Research and design teams can create “home pages” for their collaborative projects • For projects, workspaces enable file sharing, blogging of research progress, and milestone tracking for projects • Workspaces also enable bringing a particular BMEplanet user “community” or “group” together to interface with one another • Workspaces can be public (viewable by anyone), members-only (viewable by BMEplanet users only), and private (viewable by team members only) • A private workspace may be opened to non-team members at the conclusion of a project after IP is evaluated, assuming all users are in agreement

  11. Ideas • Enables bioengineers in all walks of life (students, faculty, corporate representatives, entrepreneurs, etc.) to share emerging ideas • Faculty may post non-confidential summaries of recent discoveries • Corporate representatives may search for technologies that address critical design challenges • The community as a large may innovate upon ideas, and more interesting threads may be continued in “collaborative project workspaces” that protect IP integrity

  12. Overarching design criteria • Web 2.0 principles • “Light,” content-rich, easy to navigate • Portable, flexible, scalable • Role-based design • Unique portals for each class of users, including students, faculty, administrators, tech transfer officials/licensing agents, and corporate representatives/small business owners and employees/entrepreneurs • Secure access for each individual • Relational database • Can associate students and faculty with a given university, etc. • Can link faculty with former students, faculty with tech transfer officers, etc. • Simple, “slim,” effective search function • Can search throughout the database much as Google searches Web pages (search across all fields quickly and efficiently), locating BME knowledge by country or specialty • Search tool is visible on all pages in a consistent location

  13. Our home page @ www.bmeplanet.org

  14. Overview● Collaboration suite ● Development status ● Conclusions Development status

  15. Development status • Core functionality completed • A one-month beta testing period among 10 Coulter Foundation Translational Research Partners (TRPs) mid-August to mid-September • Launched to entire 270-organization network September 24, 2009

  16. Overview● Collaboration suite ● Development status ● Conclusions Conclusions & future directions

  17. Key features of BMEplanet BME then… BME now… • Getting news through the Internet • Spreading word via social networking • Blogging • “Side-by-side” leadership • Internationalism • Researching by using Pubmed, including open access articles • Opinions of colleagues • Getting news through the paper or TV • Spreading word via mail or phone • Pamphleteering • Hierarchical leadership • Nationalism • Researching by using encyclopedias or journal articles • Opinions of experts

  18. Positive effects of a global network

  19. Positive effects of a global network II

  20. Acknowledgements Colleagues • Amy Lerner U of Rochester & BME-IDEA • Anil Rathi Idea Crossing • Charla TriplettBME Career Alliance • Chris Paschall Emory University OTT • Christine Kurihara bmesource.org • David Sandak ABC2 • Joy PolefroneFUS Foundation • John Elder Elder Research, Inc. • John FavazzoIIE • Joel SelzerOzmosis, Inc. • John DelaneyMorrison Foerster, LLP • Mike Remington Drinker-Biddle • Phil WeilersteinNCIIA • Robert Maybury IOCD • Vijay Renganathan IIE • Stephen SusalkaWake Forest University OTAM • Lisa Waples Strategic Career Alliance • YousephYazdiJohnson & Johnson, Inc. The global network for bioengineering www.bmeplanet.org Funding support Development team

  21. Overview● Collaboration suite ● Development status ● Conclusions Extra slides

  22. The challenge of BME

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