The second WACBE newsletter is available here.

The 5th WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering will be held in Tainan, Taiwan, August 18-21, 2011. (link)

The 4th WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering was held in Hong Kong, China on July 26-29, 2009. The congress covered all related areas in bioengineering and special symposiums of hot themes and offered a networking forum for bioengineers to keep abreast of the latest development in the field. This year's Organizing Committee members were Dr. Arthur Mak, Chairman, Dr. K.M. Chan, Vice-Chairman, Dr. Ming Zhang, Secretary-General, Dr. Ed X. Wu, Scientific Committee Chair, and Dr. Cheng Zhu, Scientific Committee Co-Chair among others. WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering 2009 was a memorable event for colleagues and friends from all over the world to establish friendship, to promote academic exchanges and to stimulate the interests of biomedical engineers. There were around 450 delegates from 25 countries and districts around the world. Prof JM Ko, Vice President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the host, gave a welcome speech; Prof Arthur Mak, President of WACBE, gave the opening speech. Eight plenary lectures were given by Roderic Pettigrow, Savio Woo, Kerong dai, Chien Ho, Ning Wang, Yi LI, Kirk Shung, and KF So. The Congress received around 540 abstracts and 490 abstracts were printed in proceedings, including 8 plenary lectures, 2 workshop lectures, 1 banquet lecture, 41 keynote speeches and 214 other oral presentations and 224 poster presentations. Five Young Investigator awards were given to (1) Li Zhongyu, HKUST, "Polyether polyol-platinate conjugate and its micelle as new antitumor nanomedicines", (2) Hui Sai Kam, HKU, "Reduced CSF Contamination in DTI by Additional DWIs with Smaller B-value", (3) Chen Kai, USA, "Relationship between equilibrium point control processes and electromyographic pattern in elbow joint movement", (4) Martinez Ignacio, Spain, "upX73: Ubiquitous Platform for Personal Health Solutions Based on End-to-End Standard Design", and (5) Li Liu, China, "Flexibility, a possible dominant factor on the activity of antimicrobial peptides"

WACBE Newsletter 2008 #1

Please pay your 2008 annual membership dues.

The 3rd WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering was indeed a global event. We had close to 300 participants from 30 countries around the world gathering in exotic Bangkok for 3 wonderful days of scientific exchanges. We are grateful to the Prof Dr Yongyuth Yuthavong, Minister of Science and Technology of Thailand who graciously gave the Opening Address, followed by Prof Savio Woo (Pittsburgh) who gave an inspiring Congress Lecture. Prof Abraham Lee (UC Irvine) and Masahiro Sokabe (Nagoya) in their Plenary Lectures presented exciting possibilities in bioengineering at both the micro and nano levels. In addition, we had 20 Keynote Presentations from very prominent bioengineers and scientists. There were 40 oral paper sessions organized into 4 parallel tracks and 94 poster papers. Apart from the scientific presentations, the congress was treated to Traditional Thai Dances by the students of Mahidol University at the Gala Banquet. It was a highly successful congress thanks to the hard working organizing committee members from Singapore and Thailand, as well as guidance from the WACBE Council. We are also thankful to the sponsors and exhibitors, their contribution allowed us to provide extremely low registration fees for bona fide students to attend the congress. We also had a rare opportunity, thanks to Prof Dr Pairash Thajchayapong (NSTDA's Specialist and Senior Advisor) who specially arranged for some of the WACBE Council members to have an audience with Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at the Sra Pathum Palace. Her Royal Highness has a special interest in bioengineering, in particular its application in improving healthcare. I believe the 3rd WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering was a memorable event for many where old ties were renewed and new friendships were established.

A preliminary Organizing Committee Meeting for the 4th WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering was held in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The meeting was chaired by Professor Arthur Mak, who is the Chair of the Congress.

The 4th WACBE Congress will be hosted by Professor Arthur Mak in Hong Kong, July 26-29, 2009.

The President called the first WACBE Informal Meeting during the Annual Conference of Orthopaedic Research Society in San Diego, February 12, 2007.

WACBE concludes the election of the first council. The council members are: Savio Woo (President), Arthur Mak (President-Elect), Zong-Ming Li (Secretary), Ming Zhang (Secretary-Elect), Ed Guo (Treasurer), Zhongping Chen (Treasurer-Elect), Congress Chairs (Yi-Min Hu and James Goh), and six Councilors (Cheng-Kung Cheng, Xiaoping Hu, Kam Leong, Yubo Fan, Zonglai Jiang, and Zhipei Liang).

The 3rd WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, July 9-11, 2007. Please visit the congress website at www.wacbe2007.org.