Second Annual Bioengineering Research Partnership Grantee Meeting

March 25-26, 2002

Bethesda Hyatt
Bethesda, Maryland
hosted by the
National Institutes of Health
Bioengineering Consortium
Executive Summary
The NIH Bioengineering Consortium (BECON) conducted the Second Annual Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) Grantee Meeting on March 25-26, 2002, in Bethesda, Maryland. A total of 110 people attended including 58 of 62 BRP grantees, BECON members, NIH program staff, and personnel from industry and other Federal agencies. Grantees made brief (five minute) presentations on their research projects including objectives, status, and partnership structure. Plenary topical sessions on the BECON, the BRP program, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), commercialization and technology transfer, NIH extramural research and grants policies, and bioengineering review protocols were also conducted. The Bioengineering Research Partnership program is coordinated by the BECON and supports multi-disciplinary research conducted by collaborating teams to address important problems in biology and medicine.

A summary of the meeting including the program, list of attendees, project summaries, and plenary session presentations is contained in this Web site.

Partnership Summary Reports
Each partnership prepared a two-page summary report on the status of their research and partnership organization. Click on the icon below to download the booklet which contains a compilation of all BRP summary reports.

Meeting Agenda

Click here to download the agenda from the meeting.
Speaker Presentations

Click on the titles listed below to view the slides from the presentation.

Welcome - Richard Swaja (NIBIB), Senior Science Advisor

BECON and the BRP Program - Jeff Schloss (NHGRI), BECON Chair

Bioengineering and the NIBIB - Donna Dean (NIBIB), Acting Director

Technology Transfer and Commercialization Panel

NIH Extramural Research, Review, and Grants Activities
BRP Grantee Presentations

Session I

Session II