MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Biotechnology In Biomedical Engineering
Douglas Lauffenburger
Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT
Monday, March 4, 1996
4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
One definition of Biotechnology is the characterization, production,
and processing of substances through application of the principles and
techniques of molecular biology. Thus, Biotechnology can be employed
to solve health care problems, and can even be used by engineers in
their contributions to doing so. It therefore informs a subset of the
broader scope of Biomedical Engineering generally. The perspective of
the MIT Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE) is that this subset is
destined to play an increasingly important role in health care
technology - and that engineers should be encouraged to take advantage
of it in their efforts.
In this talk I will provide a brief overview of the current CBE vision
and activities, then go on to describe a simple example of exploiting
the power of molecular biology for engineering purposes in the
"re-engineering" of proteins that govern tissue cell growth. I will
additionally try to draw two distince types of possible connections
between electrical engineering and computer science and modern
molecular and cell biology, in terms of technology and of concept.
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