ASME member appointed to a new biomedical advisory council

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

The recently established National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NACBIB) includes one member of ASME.

Frank C.P. Yin, who is an ASME Fellow, is one of 10 engineers and scientists who accepted appointments to serve on the council. NACBIB meets for the first time later this month.

The council is the advisory group to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), which operates under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and provides recommendations on the conduct and support of biomedical imaging and bioengineering research and research training.

In 2000, when establishing a national advisory board was first debated, ASME was one of the few organizations to publicly support the creation of the NIBIB with position statements, white papers and testimony.

In the fall of 2001, ASME's Bioengineering Division recommended six ASME members to serve on the council, including Yin.

An ASME member since 1986, Yin served as chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering, and a professor of medicine.

Yin received his master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his doctorate in bioengineering and M.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

The first meeting of the Advisory Council is scheduled for Jan. 16-17 at the NIH in Bethesda, Md.

A list of all the council members is available at http://www. nih.gov/news/pr/nov2002/
nibib-22.htm.

The NIBIB and several other NIH centers and institutes have grants to award for basic and applied multidisciplinary research that addresses important biological or medical research problems.

The purpose of the grants is also to support bioengineering research partnerships. Partnerships must include appropriate bioengineering or allied quantitative sciences in combination with biomedical and/or clinical investigators.

The deadline for submitting an application is July 11. Applications for grants of more than $500,000 annually must be submitted with the support of an identified NIH staff member within one of the NIH institutes or centers.

The number of awards and level of support will depend on the amount of applications received and the availability of funds. More information is available at: http:// grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-03-032.html.

General information about the NIBIB can be found at http:// www.nibib.nih.gov, or by contacting Melissa Murray at murraym@asme.org.

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