Biomedical research affects society in many ways. It has been shown to improve health, create jobs, add to our knowledge, and foster new collaborations. Despite the complexity of modern research, many of the metrics used to evaluate the impacts of research still focus on the traditional, often academic, part of the research pathway, covering areas such as the amount of grant funding received an...

Physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles are known to be subject to the surface factors. For their biological/biomedical applications, typically, surface of the nanoparticles has to be modified which inevitably affects their performance. In this work we have studied the interaction between the surface related organic vibrational modes and the luminescent centers--rare earth ions--in on...

Academic medical centers nationwide face numerous fiscal challenges resulting from implementation of restructured healthcare delivery models, contracting state support for higher education, and increased competition for federal and other sources of biomedical research funding. In pursuing greater accountability and transparency in its fiscal operations, the Medical University of South Carolina ...

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 3 School of Food Science & Environmental Health, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, U.S. Centers for Disease Control an...

As representatives of 50 leading academic medical centers focusing on clinical research and many of academic medicine's scientific leaders, the Clinical Research Forum and Association of American Physicians disagree with the JCI's recent editorials on the NIH Roadmap, Elias Zerhouni's leadership, and the future directions of biomedical research.

1Vascular Biology and Cancer Centers and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY; 3St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN; 4Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and 5Department of Medicine, Unive...

a DISIT, Computer Science Institute, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy; b Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy; c Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy; d Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientico Fondazione C. Mondino, Pavia, Italy on behalf of the Stroke Unit Network (SUN) collaborating centers

Academic medical centers (AMCs) are pillars of the community; they provide health care, create jobs, educate biomedical professionals, and engage in research and innovation. To sustain their impact on human health, AMCs must improve the professional satisfaction of their faculty. Here, we describe ways to enhance recruitment, retention, creativity, and productivity of health science faculty.

TR Jenkyn, B Koopman, PA Huijing, RL Lieber, KR Kaufman Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada Institute for Biomedical Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands Faculteit Bewegingswetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Dept. of Orthopaedics and Bioengineering, University of California and VA Medical Centers, USA Motion Analysi...

The proliferation of private, corporate and community Wi-Fi hotspots in city centers and residential areas opens up new opportunities for the collection of biomedical data produced by sensors carried by mobile non-hospitalized subjects. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using these many hotspots as gateways for biomedical data transmission. A disruption-tolerant application is pre...