Nanomedicine Development Centers

Call for Papers

The fourth annual IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Application (LiSSA09) workshop co-sponsored by IEEE (www.ieee.org) and the National Institutes of Healths Nano Task Force and endorsed by Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI, ww.bisti.nih.gov/bistic2.cfm) will be held on the NIH Campus in April 2009. LiSSA09 welcomes original technical papers on the advancement of life and health science systems and applications. LiSSA09 provides a forum where engineers can seek critical issues requiring sophisticated engineering techniques and scientists can find potential engineering collaborators. To facilitate this cross disciplinary interaction, global leaders from academia, industry, and government will be invited to address challenges facing in this years theme of nanomedicine (nanomedcenter.org) from both biomedicine and engineering perspectives -- in particular, the advances made and barriers such as toxicity of nano-probes in imaging for diagnostics and therapy delivery and of nano-devices in bodies or environments. Special sessions from several IEEE societies will be included in the workshop.

This call for papers solicits original papers for oral and poster sessions which are designed to be highly interactive. Those interested should submit a 4-page manuscript in the IEEE format describing original work. The accepted papers will be published in electronic archives of IEEE Xplore digital library and will also be distributed by CD-ROM at the workshop. Selected papers will also be invited to be expanded into special issues in IEEE journals and book volumes. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. Best student papers will also be awarded. Areas of Interest in new life science technologies and applications, including those of nanomedicine (but not limited to):

LiSSA09 will feature invited talks and special panel sessions for technologies and applications in nanomedicine, in addition to scientific sessions in life science systems and applications.

For detailed submission instructions, please visit the workshop web page at: http://lissa.wustl.edu

Deadlines:

Nov. 28, 2008:
Four page papers due
Dec. 19, 2008:
Acceptance notification
Jan. 16, 2009:
Final camera-ready papers
Apr. 9, 2009:
Workshop dates
Organizing Committee

General Co-chairs:

Karen Peterson  NIBIB/NIH

Ut-Va Koc               Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Technical Program Co-chairs:

Pau-Choo Chung  National Cheng Kung U., Taiwan

Wai-Chi Fang            National Chiao Tung U., Taiwan

Thomas Gong             Nanyang Tech. U., Singapore

Mototaka Senda  Rainbow Bioscience

Tutorial Co-chairs:

Roger L. Miller         NIDCD/NIH

Li Cheng-Sheng  IBM Research

Special Sessions Co-chairs:

David Balshaw   NIEHS/NIH

Stephen T Wong  Methodist Hospital-Cornell University

Publicity Co-chairs:

Joseph Chang            Nanyang Tech U., Singapore

Richard Fisher  NEI/NIH

Nancy E. Miller NIH

Fred Prior              Washington University

Publication Chair:

Jie Chen                University of Alberta, Canada

Marc Rigas              CSR/NIH

 

Financial Co-chairs:

Stephen T Wong  Methodist Hospital-Cornell University

Ut-Va Koc               Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

 

Local-arrangement Co-chairs:

Milton Corn             NLM/NIH

Hual Li                 NIA/NIH

Contact Information:

Stephen T Wong  Methodist-Cornell (stwong@tmhs.org)

Karen Peterson          NIBIB/NIH (kpeterso@mail.nih.gov)

Ut-Va Koc               Bell Labs (u.koc@ieee.org)

Karen P. Peterson, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive, 1C-14
Bethesda, MD  20892
301-451-0707
kpeterso@mail.nih.gov