IEM Weekly Newsletter
December 17th, 2021
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News & Highlights

The holiday season is a time to reflect and appreciate. We at IEM are all very grateful for the wonderful community of students, staff, faculty and community partners that work with and support us. We are full of admiration for your resilience, generosity, kindness and your efforts to help each other work and learn safely together during the past year. We also appreciate our members' commitment to create a more equitable and inclusive climate for interdisciplinary research and education and the interfaces of engineering and medicine. We applaud the world-leading innovation and excellence in basic and translational science that the IEM centers and their members continue to produce and the improvements that your discoveries are bringing to the healthcare of patients and well-being of all people. We look forward to a new year of exciting initiatives and opportunities and wish all our members, colleagees and supporters a joyful and healthy holiday season.

News & Highlights

Center for Medical Device Engineering and Biomechanics Published in Advanced Science

Advanced Science has published The Center for Medical Device Engineering and Biomechanics' research article on Ultrasound Mediated Cellular Deflection Results in Cellular Depolarization. Through the use of high-speed digital holographic microscopy, cellular membrane dynamics are visualized to show that ultrasound stimulation directly defects the neuronal membrane leading to a change in membrane voltage and subsequent depolarization. Read the article and learn more here.

Funding & Grant Opportunities

NIH RFA: Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities

Proposed work must be to "develop and translate medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities in healthcare access and healthcare outcomes. Appropriate medical technologies should be effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and deliverable to those who need them.

Technologies of interest may be new or may be adaptations of existing technologies that have been redesigned to overcome one or more disparity-related barriers. To be effective, a technology must provide an improvement over the current quality of care for a health disparity population. The technology mu7st also be affordable to the local hospital, community health center, primary care physician, or individual patient in need.

Awards will be up to $2M over 4 years, with 3-4 awards anticipated in FY22. Application due dates:
February 11, 2022
January 26, 2023
January 26, 2024

Learn More

Upcoming Foundation Relations Deadlines

Foundation Relations is pleased to share the following *NEW* funding opportunities. Visit the Upcoming Foundation Deadlines page on our website for the full list of current opportunities, as well as lists targeting young investigators and postdoctoral researchers.

Upcoming Foundation Deadlines

Learn more about IEM and connect with our Research Centers:
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center (BMTEC) | Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)
Center for Advanced Neurological Engineering (CANE) | Center for Engineering in Cancer (CEC)
Center for Engineering in Diabetes (CED) | Cardiac Biomedical Science and Engineering Center (CBSEC)
Center for Medical Device Technology (CMDT) | Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering (WCBE)
Center for Mobile-health Systems and Applications (CMSA) | Biophotonics Technology Center (BTC)
Center of Excellence for Nano-Medicine and Engineering (CNME) | Vaccine Engineering Center (VEC)

Contact Us:
Department Email: iem@ucsd.edu
Website: iem.ucsd.edu

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