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Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering: A Tipping Point

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In January of 2011, the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine (SPRBM) held its inaugural Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) conference. The CMBE conference assembled worldwide leaders in the field of CMBE and held a very successful Round Table discussion among leaders. One of the action items was to collectively construct a white paper regarding the future of CMBE. Thus, the goal of this report is to emphasize the impact of CMBE as an emerging field, identify critical gaps in research that may be answered by the expertise of CMBE, and provide perspectives on enabling CMBE to address challenges in improving human health. Our goal is to provide constructive guidelines in shaping the future of CMBE.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge following individuals who have contributed in various forms to this paper (in alphabetical order): Alissa Morss Clyne, Dennis E. Discher, Daniel A. Fletcher, William H. Guilford, Jay D. Humphrey, Clark T. Hung, Nic D. Leipzig, Elizabeth G. Loboa, Daniel J. Müller, David J. Odde, Yixian Qin, Masaaki Sato, Michael S. Sacks, Robert T. Tranquillo, James H.-C. Wang, Sihong Wang. We would also like to thank Ms. Genya Gurvich for her assistance in manuscript preparation. XEG acknowledges partial funding support from NIH (R13EB012902, R01AR052461, and R21AR059917).

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 351 Engineering Terrace, Mail Code 8904, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    Genevieve Brown, X. Edward Guo, Henry Hess, Christopher R. Jacobs, Helen H. Lu & Van C. Mow

  2. Department of Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Peter J. Butler & Cheng Dong

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    David W. Chang & Roman Skoracki

  4. Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92032, USA

    Shu Chien

  5. Departments of Physics and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Robert M. Clegg

  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    C. Forbes Dewey

  7. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908-0759, USA

    Brian P. Helmke

  8. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Roland R. Kaunas

  9. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Sanjay Kumar

  10. Department of Plastic Surgery - Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77230, USA

    Anshu B. Mathur

  11. Department of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein

  12. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Ning Wang

  13. Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Yingxiao Wang

  14. Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Cheng Zhu

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Brown, G., Butler, P.J., Chang, D.W. et al. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering: A Tipping Point. Cel. Mol. Bioeng. 5, 239–253 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12195-012-0246-7

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