Lehigh University's Department of Bioengineering is presenting 26 poster and lecture sessions at the annual meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), October 16-19, 2019, in Philadelphia. See below for a complete list of presentations by Lehigh bioengineering faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at BMES 2019.
Additionally, the department will be celebrating the launch of its new B.S. program in Biocomputational Engineering at a special reception taking place 8-11 p.m., Thursday, October 17, at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel.
“The two areas where innovation is the strongest in the economy right now are information sciences and biotech,” says Anand Jagota , professor and founding chair of the Department of Bioengineering in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. “Because they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, with computation and theory on one side and experimental disciplines on the other, the confluence of these two is a huge potential growth area. How to handle health data, how to connect to diagnostic machines—that’s where advances in information technology are really coming together to address health care needs, and very few places actually train people at the intersection.”
Lehigh is among the first handful of top-tier U.S. research universities to offer an undergraduate major in this subject. The program will equip students to develop new diagnostic tools and software, model the building blocks of life, identify populations at risk of diseases, shore up health care data acquisition methods and security, and design clinical research trials, among other and not-yet-conceived applications.
Jagota explains that computation and bioengineering typically converge in three areas: molecules/mechanics of cells, genomics data, and optimization of health care delivery. “Lehigh’s program will ground students in all three areas and give them a basic bioengineering education as well,” he says.
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“Across the board, we’ve seen tremendous growth in bioengineering at Lehigh over the last few years,” he continues. “And now, with the announcement of Lehigh’s new College of Health , there will be even more opportunity for impact through research that is devoted to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective—collaboration that will serve to amplify research currently being conducted across the Rossin College.”
Lehigh Bioengineering research being presented at BMES 2019 includes the following:
Oral presentations:
Poster sessions:
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