Institute Of Engineering in Medicine
Welcome Letter From the Director
The Institute of Engineering in Medicine (IEM) was established at UCSD as an Organized Research Unit in July 2008. It has made excellent progress during the first year of operation due to the superb efforts of the faculty, students and staff, and the strong support by the administration and industry partners. On behalf of the Institute, I would like to thank everyone for these team efforts.
The IEM has over 130 outstanding faculty from UCSD’s Schools of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Jacobs School of Engineering, all sharing the objective of translating creative ideas into clinical medicine and novel products that will transform patient care and improve the health and wellbeing of people.
Our Website will be updated at least quarterly. Please send any news items to us at iem@ucsd.edu
New Centers
In order to effectively accomplish its mission, the IEM has established four Centers of Excellence to focus on specific areas. Additional Centers will be established in the coming months.
Center for Cardiac Biomedical Science and Engineering Center (CBSEC)
Co-Directors: Sylvia Evans, Kirk Knowlton, Andrew McCullochCenter for Medical Device and Instrumentation (CMDI)
Director: Juan LasherasCenter for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)
Co-Directors: Richard Lieber, Robert Sah
Retinal Engineering Center (REC)
Co-Directors: William R. Freeman, Gabriel A. SilvaWhitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering (WCBE)
Director: John Watson
Siebel Scholars Foundation has recognized UCSD with a $2 Million Endowment to establish the Siebel Scholars Program at IEM and JSOE
From left to right: JSOE Dean Frieder Seible; Siebel Foundation Executive Director Nitsa Zuppas; Siebel Scholars Terrell Green, Amy Hsieh, Jennifer Singelyn, Roy Lefkowitz and Julio Ng; IEM Director Shu Chien.
The Institute of Engineering in Medicine and the Jacobs School of Engineering were recently selected by the Siebel Scholars Foundation as co-recipients of a $2 million endowment gift to establish the prestigious Siebel Scholars Program in UCSD. The Siebel Scholars program was initiated by the Siebel Foundation in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at the world's leading graduate schools of business and computer science. In 2009, the Foundation decided to expand the program to recognize and engage most accomplished bioengineering graduate students. UCSD was chosen as one of two universities to join this newly created Siebel Scholars Program with the purpose of rewarding “academic achievement and excellence in the discipline of bioengineering.” More...
Dr. Bernhard Palsson Named 2010 Marvin J. Johnson Recipient
Dr. Bernhard Palsson, Galetti Professor, UCSD Dept of Bioengineering has been selected as the 2010 Marvin J. Johnson recipient of the ACS Division of Biochemical Technology. (PLEASE LINK ACS DIVISION OF BIOMED TECH to http://membership.acs.org/B/BioChem/) This award recognizes his many contributions to the field of biochemical technology, and in particular, his leadership role in developing and advancing the field of systems biology.
Shared Instrumentation Grant
The IEM was awarded $459,502 for a Shared Instrumentation Grant. Ten UCSD faculty members collectively requested the purchase of an Olympus FV1000 Confocal Laser Scanning Biological Microscope System for the shared usage in their 15 projects in order to effectively carry out their research with state-of-the-art equipment to meet the research objectives in these grants. The research of the 15 projects is directed at four important fields: (a) Molecular and Cellular Signaling, (b) Stem Cells Bioengineering, (c) Tissue Engineering and Remodeling, and (d) Systems Bioengineering. The common scientific goal of these research projects is integrative Bioengineering, and the laser scanning confocal microscopy system serves the common technological need.
The research to be carried out with the use of this new shared instrumentation will not only enhance knowledge on the bioengineering foundation of structure and function of living systems in health, but also generate new approaches for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of many health problems, such as cardiac diseases, hypertension, atherosclerosis, osteoarthritis, neurological diseases, and cancer