Engineering as a new frontier for translational medicine

Shu Chien; Rashid Bashir; Robert M Nerem; Roderic Pettigrew

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa4325

Engineering as a new frontier for translational medicine

Sci Transl Med. 2015 Apr 1;7(281):281fs13. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa4325.

Authors

Shu Chien¹, Rashid Bashir², Robert M Nerem³, Roderic Pettigrew⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA 92037, USA. shuchien@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
³ Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
⁴ National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Abstract

The inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that facilitates precision diagnostics and therapeutics to improve health care delivery for all.

MeSH terms

Engineering*
Humans
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Research Support as Topic / economics
Translational Research, Biomedical*
United States

Grants and funding

Z99 EB999999/Intramural NIH HHS/United States