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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, F.A.C.C, is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Science Officer of the West Wireless Health Institute. In this interview he speaks to the healthcare crisis faced today in the USA, and discusses some relatively simple innovations that could drive down healthcare …
By Tom O’Dwyer
The vision of the newly-formed Medical Device Realization Center (MEDRC) is to transform the medical electronic device industries: to revolutionize medical diagnostics and treatments, bringing health care directly to the individual; and to create enabling technology for the future information-driven healthcare system. Specific …
Tom O’Dwyer is Director of Healthcare Technology at Analog Devices Inc. in Wilmington, Massachusetts. In his current role, he has responsibility for all aspects of semiconductor technology for the worldwide healthcare market including medical imaging, patient monitoring equipment such as ECG and pulse oximetry, and …
By M. Vidyasagar University of Texas at Dallas
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose Would smell as sweet by any other name” (Romeo & Juliet, Act II, Scene II)
Clearly William Shakespeare did not understand marketing. Perhaps there was a time when an …
Dr. Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim is a Professor of Bioengineering at the National University of Singapore. He is also a Principal Investigator at the university’s Mechanobiology Institute. He is founding member of the Department of Bioengineering and the university’s Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative. Prof Lim’s …
By C.T. Lim
The early development of microfludics in life science applications has been focused on the analysis of biomolecules from minute amount of fluids (typically nanolitres or less). However in recent years, there is increasing use of microfluidics in manipulating and analyzing individual cells, the …
By Nitish Thakor
Welcome to The June 2012 issue of the Life Sciences Newsletter! We hope that you have already subscribed or will subscribe to the Newsletter so you can receive our articles on a regular basis. We also urge you to inform your colleagues about …
By Nitish Thakor
Welcome to our second issue of the Life Sciences Newsletter! We hope that you have already subscribed or will subscribe to the Newsletter so you can receive our articles on a regular basis. We also urge you to inform your colleagues about this …
Chalapathy Neti is currently the Director and Global Leader, Healthcare Transformation, at IBM Research. In this role he leads IBM’s global research, spanning 9 worldwide labs, on information technology innovation for healthcare transformation.
David A. Ferrucci is an IBM Fellow and the Principal Investigator for the DeepQA Watson/Jeopardy! project. He has been at the T. J. Watson Research Center since 1995, where he leads the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department.
