Featured Interview – Bin He
Bin He, IEEE Fellow, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, discusses the importance of the IEEE Life Sciences Initiative.
Sponsoring Societies of Life Sciences
Supporting Societies
Posts Categorized: April 2012
April 2012 eNewsletter
Building Brain Machine Interfaces – Neuroprosthetic Control with Electrocorticographic Signals
By Nitish Thakor
A prosthesis revolution is underway. New limb prostheses deploy very advanced materials and robotic technology. For instance, dexterous upper limbs designed by John’s Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Labratory and a commercial company, DEKA, display 22 degrees of freedom. But along with this is …
Exploration of the Cellular Galaxy: Search for the Inner Life of the Cell
By Luke P. Lee
Humankind has always been fascinated with space exploration and reaching up to the stars. Scientific discovery and breakthroughs in technology allow us to explore space outside our solar system. Now we are learning how to explore inner life of living cells. By …
Computational Biology Corner
By Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
(This is the first article in a continuing feature of the Newsletter.)
“Computational biology” is a phrase that means different things to different people, ranging all the way from sequence alignment, to turning very short “reads” of DNA fragments into a complete …
Welcome to the IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
By Nitish Thakor
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter. The Newsletter will bring you news of current developments and views of future prospects in the converging worlds of life sciences and engineering.
Advances in life sciences such as cell biology, genomics, and …
April 2012 Contributors
Bin He is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Neuroscience, and Director of Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Read more
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969 respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he was a professor of Electrical Engineering at various universities in the USA and Canada. Read more
Nitish V. Thakor is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, as well as the Director of the newly formed institute for neurotechnology, SiNAPSE, at the National University of Singapore. Read more
Luke P. Lee is a 2010 Ho-Am Laureate. He is an Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, the Director of the Biomedical Institute of Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART) and a co-director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. Read more