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”
4th WACBE Congress A Great Success
