I-RiCE Advisory Committee Meeting
The International Research-Intensive Center of Excellence (I-RiCE) on Advanced Bioengineering held their first International Advisory Committee meeting November 11th at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. This Center is an international collaborative research partnership between UCSD and two universities from the University System of Taiwan (UST, including the National Yang-Ming University and the National Chiao-Tung University). The goal of the Center is to advance the understanding of biological systems from a bioengineering perspective and establish applications in clinical medicine and healthcare. The collaborative efforts will enable researchers across the Pacific to synergize their expertise and activities in biomedical engineering in three major areas: Integrative (molecular and cellular) Bioengineering, Neural Engineering, and Health Translation, with the common goal of conducting discovery and translational research to improve human health. The morning sessions were devoted to fruitful discussions between the investigators from the UST and UCSD on collaborations in the three subprograms corresponding to the focus research areas. The topics ranged from Biophotonics and Cardiovascular Bioengineering to Computational Neuroscience and Wireless Healthcare.
The I-RiCE Advisory Committee is composed of the world’s leading experts in bioengineering – Dr. Rakesh Jain, Dr. Michael Sheetz (Integrative Bioengineering Subprogram), Dr. Wen‐Tai Liu, Dr. Bin He (Neural Engineering Subprogram), and Dr. Scott Zeger (Health Translation Subprogram) – attended the first meeting. At this first meeting of the international Advisory Committee held in the afternoon of November 11, the members reviewed the progress and future plans of the I‐RiCE project. The Center is funded by the National Science Council and was launched in December 2010. The Principal Investigators are Professor Shu Chien from UCSD and Professor Yan-Hwa Wu Lee who is the Acting Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan.
