Office of External Communications

Houston, TX 77204-5017 Fax; 713/743-8199

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 11, 2004

Contact: Eric Gerber
713/743-8189 (office)
713/617-7130(pager)
egerber@uh.edu

Nearly 200 papers from area scientists, engineers and researchers will be presented on topics ranging from robotics, bioinformatics, aerospace engineering and medical physics to neuroengineering, computational biology, medical image processing and biotechnology. The Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology hosts the annual event.

Featured presenters include Dr. Ferid Murad, who is director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine, UT-Houston Medical School, and winner of the 1998 Nobel in Physiology/Medicine and Paolo Bonato, director, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital at the Harvard Medical School. Murad will be discussing “The Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Its Application for Drug Development.” Bonato’s presentation will focus on “Reshaping Health Care Using Wearable Technology.”

Local and regional institutions represented at the conference include UH, Rice, UTMB, UT Health Science Center/Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s, JSC-NASA, UT, Texas A&M, Baylor, UT Health Science Center/San Antonio and Louisiana Tech.

The conference is open to the public. A registration fee is required and may be paid at the event.

For information about this event, call (713) 348-3597 or (713) 743-4429. For more information about HSEMB and a detailed schedule of programs at the conference, visit the Web site http://www.hsemb.org.

For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.