Transcript NSF Programs Fostering Innovation in Bioengineering Semahat Demir, Ph.D. Program Director Biomedical Engineering & Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (BME/RAPD) Division of Bioengineering and.

NSF Programs Fostering Innovation in
Bioengineering
Semahat Demir, Ph.D.
Program Director
Biomedical Engineering & Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (BME/RAPD)
Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems
National Science Foundation
BME- Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Alliance (IDEA)
September 28, 2005
Baltimore, MD
Outline
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Vision and strategic goals of NSF
NSF Merit Review Criteria
NSF Disciplines
NSF Programs that Foster Innovation in Bioengineering
• Engineering Directorate
• Other Directorates
Interagency Activity and Working Groups
Interagency Funding Programs for Bioengineering
Concluding Remarks
NSF Vision
NSF: Where Discovery Begins
Enabling the Nation’s future
through discovery, learning and
innovation.
NSF’s Strategic Outcome Goals
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People – Develop a diverse, internationally
competitive and globally-engaged
workforce of scientists, engineers and wellprepared citizens
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Ideas – Enable discovery across frontier of
science and engineering connected to
learning, innovation and service to society
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Tools – Provide broadly accessible, stateof-the-art information bases and shared
research and education tools
NSF Merit Review Criteria
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Criteria include:
• What is the intellectual merit and
quality of the proposed activity?
• What are the broader impacts of the
proposed activity?
What is the intellectual merit of
the proposed activity?
Potential Considerations:
• How important is the proposed activity to
advancing knowledge and understanding
within its own field or across different fields?
• How well qualified is the proposer (individual
or team) to conduct the project? (If
appropriate, the reviewer will comment on the
quality of prior work.)
• To what extent does the proposed activity
suggest and explore creative and original
concepts?
• How well conceived and organized is the
proposed activity?
• Is there sufficient access to resources?
What are the broader impacts
of the proposed activity?
Potential Considerations:
• How well does the activity advance discovery and
understanding while promoting teaching, training and
learning?
• How well does the activity broaden the participation of
underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability,
geographic, etc.)?
• To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure for research
and education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks
and partnerships?
• Will the results be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific
and technological understanding?
• What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society?
Additional Criteria
Specific to the solicitation
• Requirements and expectations
• Management plan
• Dissemination plan
NSF Disciplines & Structure
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Biological Sciences (BIO)
Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE)
Education and Human Resources (EHR)
Engineering (ENG)
Geosciences (GEO)
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Social, Behavioral And Economic Sciences (SBES)
Polar Programs
Cyberinfrastructure
Engineering (ENG) Directorate
ENG Divisions
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Bioengineering & Environmental Systems (BES)
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Civil & Mechanical Systems (CMS)
Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
Design and Manufacturing Innovation (DMI)
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Biomedical Eng & Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities
(BME/RAPD) Program
Grant Opportunities For Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Electrical & Communications Systems (ECS)
Engineering Education & Centers (EEC)
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Engineering Research Centers (ERC)
Partnership for Innovation Program
Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program
Office of Industrial Innovation (OII)
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small
Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR)
BME/RAPD Program Fostering Innovation
• CAREER, investigator-initiated, SGER projects
• High risk high return projects
• Funding of BME Senior Design Projects
• Funding of BME- Innovation, Design and
Entrepreneurship Alliance (IDEA)
• BME-IDEA Meeting (PI: Paul Yock)
• BME-IDEA Contest (PI: Phil Weilerstein)
NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) with
Products in Clinical Use
BioEngineering Cluster
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MIT - - Bioprocess Engineering, 1985 and 1995 (graduating in 05)
Georgia Tech with Emory University School of Medicine- Engineering of Living Tissue, 1998
Johns Hopkins with CMU and MIT, Brigham Women’s Hospital and
Johns Hopkins University Hospital - - Computer Integrated Surgical
Systems, 1998
Vanderbilt University with Harvard-MIT, Northwestern Univ. and U. of
Texas-Austin - - VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Educational
Technologies, 1999
U. of Southern California with Caltech and UC-Santa Cruz –
Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems, 2003
U. of Michigan with Mich. St., & Mich. Technological Univ. - Wireless Integrated Microsytems, 2000
Northeastern U. with Boston U., U. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (UPRM),
& Rensselaer - - Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems, 2000
Caltech - - Neuromorphic Systems, 1995, (graduating in 05)
Other Funding Opportunities for Innovation in
Bioengineering at NSF
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Science and Technology Centers (STCs)
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Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training
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Office of Integrative Activities
Div Graduate Education (Directorate Education & Human Resources)
Combined Research-Curriculum Development &
Educational Innovation Program (CRCD)
- Div Experimental & Integrative Activities (Directorate for Computer &
Information Science and Engineering)
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Priority Areas
Interagency Programs
Role of Interagency Efforts in
Fostering Bioengineering Innovation
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Interagency Activity Groups for Bioengineering
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Interagency Working Groups for Bioengineering
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Interagency Funding Programs for Bioengineering
Interagency Activity Groups and Working
Groups for Bioengineering
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The DHHS Medical Technology Innovation Task Force
Image Guided Interventions (IGI) Committee
NSF Scholar in Residence at FDA Program
NIH/NCI Network for Translational Research in Optical Imaging
(NTROI)
Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG)
NIH Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science (BMIS)
Committee
Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering and Sciences (MATES) Group
Working Group on the Interface of the Life Sciences and
Physical Sciences
Biomass Research and Development Board
INTERAGENCY PROGRAMS FOR BIOENGINEERING
• Collaborative Research in Computational
Neuroscience (NSF/NIH)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04514/nsf04514.pdf
• NIH-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
Summer Institutes (BBSI)
http://bbsi.eeicom.com/
• Quantitative Systems Biotechnology (2005 ended)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04516/nsf04516.pdf
INTERAGENCY PROGRAMS FOR BIOENGINEERING (Cont’d)
• Joint DMS/BIO/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research
in the Area of Mathematical Biology
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04572/nsf04572.htm
• DDDAS: Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05570/nsf05570.pdf
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Interagency Opportunities in Multi-Scale Modeling in
Biomedical, Biological, and Behavioral Systems
(NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04607/nsf04607.pdf
Concluding Remarks
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Innovation in Bioengineering
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Novel ideas
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Innovation leading to products and clinical use
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Better health care delivery; economic growth
Integration of research and education for innovation
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“Integrative” approaches; complex/open-ended problems
All innovations come from education
“Real world experiences”; teaching innovation and entrepreneurship
NSF Programs Fostering Innovation in Bioengineering
BME/RAPD, SGER, ERC, SBIR, STTR, GOALI, STC, IGERT, CRCD
Future: Collaborations
Interagency Activity and Working Groups for Bioengineering
Interagency Funding Programs
Thanks for the
invitation!
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