Summer internship program concludes.

The second Summer Internship Program of the Center was completed last week with a Friday lunch-time poster presentation and picture taking. See here for the 11 posters presented. The program, aimed at  promoting the research opportunities at the Center and recruiting future graduate students, went well as a whole. It was proposed that next year, the internship program be open to BME professors not participating in IBS as well, which may help attract more engineering-oriented students. This year about 1/3 of the participating students decided to stay for 4 more weeks to continue their lab activities. Their research interests are primarily in neuroscience.

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference

An annual international conference, IEEE-EMBC, is being held in Je-ju island. The conference is from Tuesday 7/11 to Saturday 7/15. Among many parallel sessions, a few that were related to the Lab were held on Thursday.

There were a series of sessions on Computational Human Models. This is probably one of the very active areas where government, industry, and academic institutes are closely collaborating. New players appear to continue to enter the field (FDA developing MIDA, Novocure, NICT from Japan, NEVA Electromagnetics, and a Hanyang University team working with ICRP), and new applications are emerging as computational power grows as does interest in non-invasive electromagnetic treatment of patients. In this conference, Novocure highlighted what they named Tumor-Treating Fields (TTFields) which can benefit from bio-electromagnetic modeling.

One session on MREPT took place with four invited speakers. In general, despite some new ideas, in this conference no new methods/concepts capable of human clinical application were presented.