CIMIT Innovation Congress 2008
Forging Partnerships in Healthcare, October 28-29

A unique, interactive conference connecting you with national leaders who are shaping the future of healthcare by facilitating innovative public-private partnerships to drive change. Register online to attend.

Keynote Speakers:

• Elias Zerhouni, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health
• LTG James Peake (ret.), MD, US Secretary for Veterans Affairs
• Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, MD,
  Commander, Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
• Stephen Oesterle, MD, Senior Vice President,
  Medicine and Technology, Medtronic, Inc.
• Thomas J. Miller, CEO, Workflow & Solutions, Siemens Healthcare

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Enter the Poster Competition. Deadline to enter extended to Sept. 5.

CIMIT Summer Education Series 2008
Frontiers of Microfluidics and Microsystems
in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine

Thank you for making the Summer Education Series 2008 a huge sucess. Click here to view the summaries or videos of speakers.

The CIMIT Forum is on break during the month of August and will reconvene September 9. View future topics.

As printed in the New York Times: "The new report, published in the free-access online journal PLoS Biology, provides the most complete rough draft to date of the cortex’s electrical architecture, the cluster of interconnected nodes and hubs that help guide thinking and behavior. The paper also provides a striking demonstration of how new imaging techniques focused on the brain’s white matter — the connections between cells, rather than the neurons themselves — are filling in a dimension of human brain function that has been all but dark.

In previous studies, scientists have used magnetic resonance imaging to identify peaks and valleys of neural activity when people are doing various things, like making decisions, reacting to frightening images or reliving painful memories. But these studies, while provocative, revealed virtually nothing about the underlying neural networks involved — about which brain regions speak to one another and when. Previous estimates of network structure, based on such imaging, have been sketchy."

Read New York Times article.

CIMIT supports NOTES initiative with $2.1M grant

Team will focus on minimally invasive surgery that leaves no scars,
minimizes infection

The award will go to a team pioneering a dynamic new technology promising the future possibility of surgical procedures without making incisions on the surface of the body.

The multi-institutional initiative chosen was NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery). The award of $700,000 annually for three years represents CIMIT’s largest grant program. With this award, CIMIT’s investment in NOTES research will top $3 million overall, making CIMIT the largest financial sponsor of this technology worldwide. Read press release.

David Rattner, MD, and team accepts Strategic Project Award at Forum