Abstract
Biomedical engineering tools can be harnessed to address some of the world’s most challenging nondisease–focused problems.
- Copyright © 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science
FocusGlobal Health
Beyond Disease, How Biomedical Engineering Can Improve Global Health
- Philip LeDuc1,2,3,*,
- Morris Agaba4,*,
- Chao-Min Cheng5,*,
- Jose Gracio6,†,
- Amador Guzman7,* and
- Anton Middelberg8,*
- 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
- 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
- 3Department of Computational Biology and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
- 4The Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Arusha, Tanzania.
- 5Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan.
- 6Nanotechnology Research Division, Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
- 7Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Metalúrgica, Pontificia Universidad Católica Santiago de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.
- 8Centre for Biomolecular Engineering, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
- †Deceased.
- ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: prl{at}andrew.cmu.edu (P.L.); morris.agaba{at}nm-aist.ac.tz (M.A.); chaomin{at}mx.nthu.edu.tw (C.-M.C.); aguzman{at}ing.puc.cl (A.G.); a.middelberg{at}uq.edu.au (A.M.)
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Science Translational Medicine 10 Dec 2014:
Vol. 6, Issue 266, pp. 266fs48
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009067
Vol. 6, Issue 266, pp. 266fs48
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009067
Philip LeDuc
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
3Department of Computational Biology and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Morris Agaba
4The Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Arusha, Tanzania.
Chao-Min Cheng
5Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan.
Jose Gracio
6Nanotechnology Research Division, Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
†Deceased.
Amador Guzman
7Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Metalúrgica, Pontificia Universidad Católica Santiago de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile.
Anton Middelberg
8Centre for Biomolecular Engineering, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
