Greetings:
Join us March 31st, 2016 for talk with
Dr. Irving Weinberg. Pizza, coffee and cookies are served.
For visitors from outside Mason – Parking is best in the Shenandoah Parking Garage ( Bldg. 43 on the campus map). The seminar will be in Research Hall, 163:
http://info.gmu.edu/Maps/FairfaxMap15TabldColor.pdf
Bioengineering Seminar
March 31st, 2016 from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Research Hall 163
Speaker: Irving Weinberg,
Md. and PhD., President, Weinberg Medical Physics LLC, Bethesda, MD
Seminar title:
Ultra-fast MRI and Image-guided Therapy with Magnetic Particles
Abstract
MRI systems work because excited protons radiate energy at frequencies that depend on the local magnetic field strength. As a result, the spatial and timing resolution
of MRI scanners is related to the spatial and timing gradient of the local magnetic field. Early MRI manufacturers noticed that if the magnetic gradients were too high and too fast, patients started to get uncomfortably stimulated, like Galvani’s frogs and
Dr. Frankenstein’s creature. As a result of these early MRI studies, the FDA decided in 1978 to impose limits on slew rates (i.e., magnetic change in time and space) so that magnetic fields would not be changed so quickly as to cause discomfort. In 2006, Dr.
Weinberg took a contrarian hypothesis: perhaps the gradients were not being changed fast enough? Working with Dr. Stanley Fricke at Children’s National Medical Center, he showed (in a prospectively-designed controlled clinical trial) that slew rates thousands
of times higher than FDA’s limits could be applied without bio-effects, if the magnetic field changes were made in less than 10 microseconds. Three companies have been launched to take advantage of the high resolution and speed made available with this innovation.
Dr. Weinberg is evaluating in animal studies whether the same high and fast magnetic fields can be deployed to propel and image custom-made magnetic particles in tissues, for potential research and therapeutic applications in cancer, neurology, and otology.
Biography
Dr. Weinberg received a PhD in experimental plasma physics at UC Irvine in 1989, learning how to store and deliver hundreds of thousands of amps in millionths of seconds.
After attending a talk by Dr. Michael Phelps (the PET scanner developer, not the swimmer) about functional brain imaging, Dr. Weinberg decided to spend time as a postdoc in biomedical engineering at UCLA. After waiting six months for a pending job offer in
Los Angeles as a medical physicist, he was given 24 hours to decide whether to attend medical school in Miami and so he started driving East. The medical physics job offer came one week later. Three years later, as a resident in diagnostic radiology at Johns
Hopkins, Dr. Weinberg told his mammography supervisor (Dr. Rachel Brem, now Director of Breast Imaging at GWU) that “there must be a better way”. Dr. Brem told him to feel free to go ahead and find one, so Dr. Weinberg founded a company that built the first
PET scanner dedicated to breast imaging. He subsequently was involved in founding six other companies that have made FDA-approved medical products used by one million Americans. Dr. Weinberg continues to see patients as a radiological consultant. Since 2008,
Dr. Weinberg has run an incubator in Rockville, MD that has spun off four companies in the fields of medical imaging and image-guided therapy, working with investigators at University of Maryland, Children’s National Medical Center, Georgetown University,
Wayne State University, UC Irvine, and the University of Valencia.
Thank you,
Terry McGowan
Admin. Asst./Purchasing Specialist
George Mason University
Volgenau School of Engineering-Bioengineering Dept.
Suite 3800, Nguyen Engineering Building
4400 University Drive, 1G5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 703-993-5769
Fax: 703-993-2077
I just received this from the
Department of Rehabilitation Science. This may be an interesting talk. Please see below.
Cheers,
Claudia Borke
Claudia Borke
Academic Program Coordinator
Volgenau School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering
3800 Nguyen Engineering Building, 1G5
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 993-4190
Fax: (703) 993-2077
From: Donal Murray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:13 PM
To: Claudia Borke
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Rehabilitation Science Guest Speaker
Hi Claudia,
My name is Donal Murray, a PhD student in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and the treasurer of the Rehabilitation Science student organisation. The reason that
I am emailing you today is to see if you could reach out to some of the students in the Bioengineering Department and make them aware of the talk we as a student organisation along with the Department of Rehabilitation Science are holding Tuesday the 5th
of April. Below is information regarding the talk along with a flyer attachment. I think this could be an area of possible interest for some of the students in your department and we would be delighted if some of them could attend.
The Rehabilitation
Science Club and the Department of Rehabilitation Science are hosting a presentation by Dr. Beth Fisher, a Professor of Clinical
Physical Therapy in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Fisher holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine at USC and is the director of the Neuroplasticity
and Imaging Laboratory where she uses Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to investigate brain-behavior relationships during motor skill learning and motor control in both non-disabled individuals and individuals with neurologic disorders. Dr. Fisher's
talk is titled "Exercise-Induced Neuroplasticity in Parkinson’s Disease."
Event Details:
When: Tuesday, April 5th at 11:00am
Where: Johnson Center, 3rd floor Meeting Room A
Any help in spreading the word about this talk would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance,
Donal
Donal Murray, M.A.
PhD Student, Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Rehabilitation Science
George Mason University
Hi-
Here are 3 interesting opportunities for pre-doctoral summer internships and post-doctoral research staff positions at HRL in Malibu, CA (an attractive place both in terms of location and research profile.
1)
Machine Intelligence - Summer Internship & Post Doc Research Staff
EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Applied Math, Computer Science or related fields
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Primary job function is to develop and apply modern mathematical algorithms and machine learning algorithms to perform grammar induction to build a semantic memory. Tasks will include the development, implementation,
evaluation, and integration of algorithms to build a semantic memory. Additional job functions include solving customer problems, writing invention disclosures, publishing papers, briefing customers, and assisting in marketing HRL expertise.
EXPERIENCE DESIRED: Research experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, grammar induction, pattern recognition. Experience in building incremental learning algorithms, with real time processing a plus. Experience
developing innovative solutions based upon the application of relevant research results from a wide variety of sources. Proficiency with C, C++, Matlab, Python, Java, Hadoop and Spark.
KNOWLEDGE DESIRED: Background in one or more of the following areas: EM algorithm, algorithms for inference and prediction, statistical learning, graph theory and algorithms, ontologies, and dimensionality reduction techniques.
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Good communication (verbal and written) skills, active participation in R&D team activities is required. Able and willing to occasionally travel.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
If interested, please apply at the HRL Laboratories, LLC website:
http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html and email Dr. Rajan Bhattacharyya (email address:
[log in to unmask])
2)
Machine Reasoning - Summer Internship & Post Doc Research Staff
EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Applied Math, Computer Science, Cognitive Science or related fields
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Primary job function is to develop and apply artificial intelligence algorithms and machine learning algorithms for machine reasoning. Tasks will include the development, implementation, evaluation, and integration
of algorithms in a software architecture to perform machine reasoning for autonomous systems that form hypotheses, evaluate them, forage for new information, and perform adaptive decision making. Additional job functions include solving customer problems,
writing invention disclosures, publishing papers, briefing customers, and assisting in marketing HRL expertise.
EXPERIENCE DESIRED: Research experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, cognitive systems. Experience developing innovative solutions based upon the application of relevant
research results from a wide variety of sources. Proficiency with C, C++, Matlab, Python, Java, Hadoop and Spark.
KNOWLEDGE DESIRED: Background in one or more of the following areas: algorithms for inference, prediction, statistical learning, cognitive systems, decision making, graph theory and algorithms.
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Good communication (verbal and written) skills, active participation in R&D team activities is required. Able and willing to occasionally travel.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
If interested, please apply at the HRL Laboratories, LLC website:
http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html and email Dr. Rajan Bhattacharyya (email address:
[log in to unmask])
3)
Cognitive Computing - : Summer Internship & Post Doc Research Staff
EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Applied Math, Computer Science, Cognitive Science or related fields
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Primary job function is to develop and apply cognitive computing algorithms on large volumes of structured and unstructured data for applications in large scale inference, prediction, anomaly detection, and autonomous
systems. Tasks will include the development, implementation, evaluation, and integration of algorithms in a software architecture. Additional job functions include solving customer problems, writing invention disclosures, publishing papers, briefing customers,
and assisting in marketing HRL expertise.
EXPERIENCE DESIRED: Research experience in one or more of the following areas: cognitive computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, graphs, probabilistic reasoning. Experience developing innovative solutions
based upon the application of relevant research results from a wide variety of sources. Proficiency with C, C++, Matlab, Python, Java, Hadoop and Spark.
KNOWLEDGE DESIRED: Background in one or more of the following areas: algorithms for analysis and extraction of knowledge from large volumes of structured and unstructured data, machine learning, self directed learning, casual inference
and reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, logic & rule-based systems, cognitive systems, decision making, graph theory and algorithms.
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: Good communication (verbal and written) skills, active participation in R&D team activities is required. Able and willing to occasionally travel.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. driver’s license, special tools or restrictions): U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
If interested, please apply at the HRL Laboratories, LLC website:
http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html and email Dr. Rajan Bhattacharyya (email address:
[log in to unmask])
Claudia Borke
Academic Program Coordinator
Volgenau School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering
3800 Nguyen Engineering Building, 1G5
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 993-4190
Fax: (703) 993-2077
Greetings-
This is from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH<https://nccih.nih.gov/>) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They reached out to us to share an upcoming bioengineering
lecture that may be of interest to you.
NCCIH-funded researcher Dr. Christina Smolke and her Stanford University lab were the first in the world to produce synthetic hydrocodone by reproducing complex plant pathways in baker’s yeast via a process that reduces the production
time for plant-based opioids from one year to a few days. Dr. Smolke will give a lecture at NIH on April 4 discussing her team’s work in developing foundational tools to drive advancement in bioengineering.
You can join either in-person or watch via live videocast<https://videocast.nih.gov/>. Lecture details are below, and more information about the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series can
be accessed on the NCCIH website<https://nccih.nih.gov/news/events/IMlectures>.
Lecture: New Bio-Based Supply Chains for Medicines
Date: April 4, 2016 9:30 a.m. ET
Speaker: Christina Smolke, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Education and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.
Location: Masur Auditorium at the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10)
Kind Regards,
Claudia Borke
Claudia Borke
Academic Program Coordinator
Volgenau School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering
3800 Nguyen Engineering Building, 1G5
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 993-4190
Fax: (703) 993-2077