Events and public lectures

Translational research bridges scientific discoveries and the treatment of vision disorders. The 2012 ARVO Annual Meeting, May 6 – 10 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is the world's largest gathering of international eye and vision researchers. The Meeting will promote collaboration between basic and clinical scientists while exploring how basic research translates to effective prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Visit the ARVO 2012 website.

The 34th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will take place at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in San Diego, California, USA. The general theme of EMBC'12 is "Engineering Innovation in Global Health", covering a broad spectrum of topics in biomedical engineering and healthcare technologies, including medical and clinical applications. The conference program will consist of invited plenary lectures, symposia, workshops, invited sessions and oral and poster sessions of unsolicited contributions. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers of up to 4 pages will appear in the Conference Proceedings and be indexed by IEEE Xplore and Medline/PubMed.

The thematic areas covered by this conference include:

1. Biomedical Signal Processing
2. Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing
3. Bioinstrumentation: Sensors, Micro, Nano and Wearable Technologies
4. Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Modeling Methodologies
5. Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems Engineering
6. Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering
7. Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
8. Biomechanics and Biorobotics
9. Therapeutics and Diagnostic Systems, Devices and Technologies, Clinical Engineering
10. Healthcare Information Systems, Telemedicine
11. Biomedical Engineering Education and Society