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Si terrà al Conneticut College (New London, Connecticut) la Conferenxa organizzatasotto l'egida del Gordon Research Conference dal titolo

"MEMS Technology and Biomedical Applications"

June 25-30, 2006.

Tutte le informazioni sull'evento comprese le mdoalità per l'iscrizione sul sito

  http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2006/mems.htm.

Session topics:

• Novel BioMEMS Sensing
• Chemical Specificity for BioMEMS Sensing
• BioMaterials for BioMEMS
• MEMS Technology as a Biomedical Device Platform
• Biologically Inspired MEMS
• Biofluidic Microsystems
• Lab-on-a-Chip
• Implantable MEMS Devices
• Applications of BioMEMS in Human Health

MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) is a burgeoning and highly interdisciplinary research area. Traditional MEMS devices rely heavily on Silicon device processing techniques and have been mostly directed at applications in telecommunications, the automotive industry, and in display devices.

In the last several years, considerable effort has gone into exploring the application of MEMS technology to issues broadly related to human health. In doing so, there is ongoing research in new processes and techniques for fabricating suitable devices, often to handle fluid flow, and often with new materials. There is also considerable research effort in finding new methods to detect small quantities of biochemical or other entities and integrate those methods into a simple device framework. Consequently, the research has two broad thrusts – firstly research to develop and improve new devices, often with new device paradigms, and secondly to apply the new technology to facilitate research advances in biochemistry, medicine, and related fields. It is often the case that new technologies lead to new research breakthroughs, which have greater long-term impact than the direct benefits of the new technology. At the same time there have also been considerable advances in traditional MEMS device technology that are potentially beneficial to the new "Bio-MEMS" community.

• Biologically Inspired MEMS Techniques
• Novel MEMS Fabrication Techniques
• Novel Materials for BioMEMS
• MEMS and BioMEMS Sensors
• Microfluidics and Biofluidics
• Integration and Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
• Biocompatibility for BioMEMS
• Implantable Devices
• Applications in Human Health

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Julia Babensee (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Karl Böhringer (University of Washington)
• Michael Cima (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Panos Datskos (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• Tejal Desai (University of California, San Francisco)
• Haifeng Ji (Louisiana Tech University)
• Daryl Kipke (University of Michigan)
• Marc Madou (University of California, Irvine)
• Scott Manalis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Raymond Mariella (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Carlos Mastrangelo (Case Western Reserve University)
• Ronald Miles (SUNY Binghamton)
• Murat Okandan (Sandia National Laboratory)
• Dennis Polla (DARPA)
• Beth Pruitt (Stanford University)
• Shuvo Roy (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
• Michael Sepaniak (University of Tennessee)
• Todd Thorsen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Steve Tung (University of Arkansas)
• Horst von Recum (Case Western Reserve University)

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