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, United States
Section Editors
Biomaterials
- Professor Seeram Ramakrishna FREng, FNAE
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Assoc. Professor Alison Marsden PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Biomedical Imaging
- Prof. Dr. Stanislav Emelianov
Georgia Institute of Technology Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, Atlanta, United States
Neural Engineering
- Professor Christine E. Schmidt PhD
University of Florida J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Gainesville, United States
Novel Biomedical Technologies
- Dr. José del R. Millán PhD
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Molecular and Cellular Engineering
- Professor Charles Gersbach PhD
Duke University, Durham, United States
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
- Dr. Carlijn Bouten PhD
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Editorial Board
- Dr. Juan Carlos del Alamo PhD
University of Washington Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Cardiovascular System, Seattle, Washington, United States - Dr. Paulo Bártolo BEng, MSc, PhD, FCIRP
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom - Professor Serena M. Best CBE, FREng, FIMM
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Professor Marom Bikson PhD
The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States - Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini MSc, Dr.-Ing. habil.
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany - Dr. Christopher Contag PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States - Dr. X. Tracy Cui PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States - Dr. Atam Dhawan PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States - Dr. Georg Duda PhD
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration - Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany - Professor C. Ross Ethier PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Dr. Shangkai Gao ME
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Professor Andres Garcia BS, MSE, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Dr. Ehud Gazit PhD, BSc
Tel Aviv University Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv, Israel - Dr. Warren M. Grill PhD
Duke University Department of Biomedical Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, United States - Dr. Bin He PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States - Professor Jöns Hilborn PhD
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden - Dr. Elizabeth Hillman BSc, MSc, PhD
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States - Dr. Jeffrey Holmes BS, PhD, MD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States - Dr. Dietmar W. Hutmacher PhD, MBA
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Dr. Melissa Knothe Tate PhD, MS
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Dr. Despina Kontos PhD, MSc, BEng
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Dr. Rob Krams MD, PhD
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom - Dr. Deborah Leckband
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States - Dr. Todd McDevitt PhD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California, United States - Dr. Silvestro Micera PhD
Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - Professor Tony Mikos PhD, MSChE
Rice University Department of Bioengineering, Houston, Texas, United States - Professor Samir Mitragotri MS, PhD
Harvard University John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Prof. Dr. Bradley Nelson PhD
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos MSc, PhD
Technical University of Munich, Munchen, Germany - Professor Nicholas Peppas ScD
The University of Texas at Austin Institute for Biomaterials Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine, Austin, Texas, United States - Prof. Dr. Michael Raghunath PhD
Zurich University of Applied Sciences School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Wädenswil, Switzerland - Professor Andrew Rollins PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States - Dr. David Schaffer BS, PhD
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States - Professor Katja Schenke-Layland MSc, PhD
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Munich, Germany - Dr. Gijs van Soest PhD
Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Dr. Shay Soker PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States - Dr. John White PhD
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States