The following text and links provide information concerning prior and future NIH/BECON meetings and symposia concerned with biomedical engineering. Links to proceedings and summary reports from previous symposia are included.

Previous Symposia:

• BECON/BISTIC 2004 Symposium: Bioinformatics for Clinical Decision Support – June 21-22, 2004 – Natcher Conference Center – Bethesda, Maryland
  • Symposium Report
• BECON 2003 Symposium: Catalyzing Team Science - June 23-24, 2003 - Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, Maryland
• BECON 2002 Symposium: Sensors in Biological Research and Medicine - June 24-25, 2002 - Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, Maryland
  • Symposium Report
  • Photographs from the Sensors Symposium

• Reparative Medicine: Growing Tissues and Organs - Bethesda, Maryland; June 25-26, 2001
  
  • Photographs from the Reparative Medicine Symposium
  • Reparative Medicine Symposium Final Report (PDF or MS Word).
  • Proceeding published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Vol. 961 - June 24, 2002.
  • http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/becon062501.ram - Video Archive of Day One of Reparative Medicine Symposia
  • http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/becon062601.ram - Video Archive of Day Two of Reparative Medicine Symposia

• Medical Rehabilitation on the Move: Spotlight on Bioengineering - January 4-5, 2001 - Proceedings
  
  
• Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium - June 25-26, 2000
  • Photographs from the Nanotechnology Symposium
  • Video Clips from the Nanotechnology Symposium  (RealAudio)
  • Poster Abstracts and Exhibits (PDF).
  • Nanotechnology Symposium Summary Report (PDF).

• NIH Consensus TAC Conference on Improving Medical Implant Performance Through Retrieval Information - January 10-12, 2000 - Draft Statement

• NCI-Industry Forum on Biomedical Imaging and Oncology

• Biomedical Imaging Symposium - June 25-26, 1999
        Summary Report (PDF). The report has also been published in the open literature in "Radiology 2000"; 215:634-638 (June 2000 issue).

• NIH/BECON Bioengineering Symposium, February 27 - 28, 1998
        Final Report (PDF).

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