Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering provides systematic and focused reviews of the latest developments in different areas of the field of biomedical engineering. The Journal editors invite experts to evaluate the most innovative and interdisciplinary advances published in the previous 3-5 years. In addition to describing recent trends, authors will provide their subjective opinion on the topics discussed.
Themed Sections:
Each issue will review up to two of the major themes of biomedical engineering outlined below. In doing so, the Journal will serve as an invaluable resource to help bridge knowledge gaps amongst the researchers, academics, clinicians, professionals, and students with specializations in the various sub-disciplines of this field.
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics and mechanobiology
- Biomedical imaging
- Future of biomedical engineering
- Molecular and cellular engineering
- Neural engineering
- Novel biomedical technologies
- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Selection of the topics to be reviewed:
Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics representing key subfields of the discipline, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors, together with specialist Guest Editors, commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected with the aim to stimulate exchange of ideas amongst experts. Editorial Board members are experts in the various subfields of the discipline, and support the Section Editors in the identification of important topical areas, Guest Editors, and prospective authors.
Invited review articles:
Authors write short review articles (about 2500 words or 5-10 printed pages with figures) in which they present most recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous three to four years. The review articles undergo internal review by the Guest Editors, Section Editors and Editorial Board members.
Editorial Overview:
Section Editors, together with the Guest Editors, will write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
- Dr. George Truskey PhD
Duke University, Durham, USA
Biomaterials
- Professor Seeram Ramakrishna FREng, FNAE
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Assoc. Professor Alison Marsden PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Biomedical Imaging
- Professor Andrew Rollins PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA - Dr. Gijs van Soest PhD
Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg gGmbH, Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Neural Engineering
- Professor Christine E. Schmidt PhD
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Novel Biomedical Technologies
- Dr. José del R. Millán PhD
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
- Dr. Charles Gersbach PhD
Duke University, Durham, USA
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
- Dr. Carlijn Bouten PhD
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Editorial Board
- Dr. Paulo Bártolo BEng, MSc, PhD, FCIRP
University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK - Professor Serena M. Best CBE, FREng, FIMM
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK - Professor Marom Bikson PhD
The City University of New York, New York, New York, USA - Aldo R. Boccaccini MSc, PhD
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany - Dr. Christopher Contag PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA - Dr. X. Tracy Cui PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Dr. Juan Carlos del Alamo PhD
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, California, USA - Dr. Atam Dhawan PhD
University Heights, Newark, New Jersey, USA - Dr. Georg Duda PhD
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Professor C. Ross Ethier PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Dr. Shangkai Gao ME
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Professor Andres Garcia BS, MSE, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Dr. Ehud Gazit PhD, BSc
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel - Dr. Warren M. Grill PhD
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA - Dr. Bin He BS, MS, PhD
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Professor Jöns Hilborn PhD
Uppsala University, Sweden - Dr. Elizabeth Hillman BSc, MSc, PhD
Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA - Dr. Jeffrey Holmes BS, PhD, MD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA - Dietmar W. Hutmacher PhD, MBA
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Dr. Melissa Knothe Tate PhD, MS
UNSW Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Dr. Despina Kontos PhD, MSc, BEng
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA - Dr. Rob Krams MD, PhD
Imperial College London, London, England, UK - Dr. Deborah Leckband
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA - Dr. Todd McDevitt PhD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, USA - Dr. Silvestro Micera PhD
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - Dr. Tony Mikos PhD, MSChE
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA - Professor Samir Mitragotri MS, PhD
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Prof. Dr. Bradley Nelson PhD
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos MSc, PhD
Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany - Professor Nicholas Peppas ScD
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA - Prof. Dr. Michael Raghunath PhD
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Wädenswil, Switzerland - Dr. David Schaffer BS, PhD
University of California at Berkeley, Berkley, California, USA - Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland MSc, PhD
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tuebingen, Germany - Dr. Shay Soker PhD
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA - Dr. John White PhD
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA