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Resource Library

Contents

• General Health Information
• Bioengineering and Bioimaging at the NIH
  • NIH Special Interest Groups
  • NIH Reports
• Bioengineering and Bioimaging Topics
  
  • Bioinformatics
  • Image-Guided Interventions
  • Nanotechnology
  • Sensor Technology
  • Tissue Engineering/Reparative Medicine
• Other Organizations
  • Federal Agencies
  • Foundations
  • Societies
  • Universities
  • Foreign Bioengineering Organizations

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General Health Information

• Medline Plus  - Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
• Healthfinder - Resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. 

Bioengineering and Bioimaging at the NIH

NIH Special Interest Groups

• NIH Bioinstrumentation Interest Group
• NIH Image Processing Interest Group
• NIH Scientific Group Home Page

NIH Reports

• Imaging Sciences Program at the NIH Clinical Center
• Trans-NIH Scientific Initiatives Web Site

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Bioengineering and Bioimaging Topics

 Bioinformatics

• NIH Bioinformatics Web Site
• National Library of Medicine - National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Image-Guided Interventions

• World Electronic Book of Surgery - Collection of Educational Programs in Laparoscopic Surgery

Nanotechnology

• National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Web Site
• Nanotechnology Research Directions IWGN Report, January 2000
• Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom NSTC Report, December 1999

Sensor Technology

• Assessment of European, Japanese, and U.S. Research and Development in Biosensing May 13, 2003
• The New Challenges of Chemical and Biological Sensing Report from NSF Workshop, January 9-10, 2002

Tissue Engineering/Reparative Medicine

• Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science (MATES) Working Group
• WTEC Study on Tissue Engineering
• Biomaterials Network

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Other Agencies and Foundations

Federal Agencies

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
  • DOE Advanced Medical Instrumentation Program
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  
  • Medical Product Safety Network
  • Device Advice
  • Device Databases
  • Guidance Database
  • OIVD Website
  • Draft Guidance for Industry on Pre-submission
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL)
  • Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL)
  • Advanced Technology Program (NIST-ATP)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF Division of Bioengineering and Biological Systems

Foundations

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Whitaker Foundation

Societies

• Academy of Radiology Research – New Website Coming Soon
• American Board of Nuclear Medicine
• American College of Radiology
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• American Roentgen Ray Society
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Society for Cell Biology
• American Society for Radiation Oncology
• Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• IEEE-EMBS - Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE
• Society for Biomaterials
• WashCAS – Washington DC Computer-Assisted Surgery Society

Foreign Bioengineering Organizations

• The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society
• International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
• International Union for Physics and Engineering Sciences in Medicine