Bioengineering and Imaging  

[Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging, and Bioengineering (SBIB) Integrated Review Group]

[ F15 Roster ]

The F15 study section reviews fellowship applications in clinically-oriented areas of imaging, surgery, bioengineering and computer/informatics. Basic, applied and pre-clinical aspects of the design and development of medical imaging systems, their components, software, and mathematical models, for studies at the organ, small or large animal, and human scale are included. Proposals involving the application and validation of in vivo animals in animals or humans, including early phase clinical studies of medical imaging systems, molecular probes and contrast agents, software, molecular imaging techniques and related technologies are also reviewed here.  Surgical proposals involving trauma, anesthesiology, wound healing, sepsis and pain management are reviewed in SBIB, as well as proposals focused on the technology surrounding the surgical sciences. The focus of the computer/informatics area is on methods, techniques and software development primarily related to clinical problems. Examples of specific areas include:

•            Development and evaluation of surgical systems, therapeutic devices and systems
•            Design, development, implementation and testing of imaging systems, including pre-clinical, Phase I, and Phase II clinical trials
•            Development of tissue engineered constructs
•            Multi-model treatment of critical injury
•            Organ preservation
•            Pathogenesis and amelioration of shock
•            Application of intelligent systems to clinical problems
•            Application of data analysis, management and mining to medical records, picture archiving, teleimaging, etc.
•            Development of telemedicine systems
•            Processing of medical images
•            Characterization of tissues by imaged based methods
•            Image guided surgical interventions
•            Medical image observer performance
•            Prediction, selection and monitoring therapeutic response by administering agents and imaging; synthesis of new diagnostic agents
•            In vivo strategies for characterizing tissues
•            Development of surrogate endpoints based on quantitative imaging

Shared interests:

With F04A (Chemical and Bioanalytical Sciences):   Fellowship applications that address the synthesis, isolation and structural determination of small molecules for drug delivery, structure-function relationships of enzymes and metalloproteins, characterization of biologically relevant macromolecules including biopolymers and biomaterials, or the development of analytical instrumentation or biosensors may be assigned to F04A. Fellowship applications addressing the development of diagnostic agents for imaging may be assigned to F15.

With F14 (Technology Development): Fellowship applications that are concerned primarily with bioengineering, microscopic imaging and technology development in support of the basic and biological sciences may be assigned to F14; fellowship applications that are concerned primarily with bioengineering, bioimaging and technology development in support of the clinical and surgical sciences may be assigned to F15.

With organ system and disease fellowships review groups:  Fellowship applications that emphasize design or development of medical imaging systems, software, or validation of an in vivo approach may be assigned to F15. If the emphasis is on the use of imaging as a tool, the application should be referred to the fellowship study sections in IRGs dedicated to specific organ systems or diseases.