Bioengineers Soon To Have Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Author: Karen Young Kreeger, pp.3

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)--an organization representing nearly 15,000 United States engineers, physicians, and scientists-- has received a grant enabling it to set up permanent headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Thanks to the funding infusion, institute officials say, biomedical engineering researchers will for the first time have a geographical, as well as a scientific, base upon which to build greater recognition for their shared research interests.

Principal financing for the new office has come in the form of a five-year, $625,000 grant from the Whitaker Foundation- -a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that traditionally has supported research, training, and conferences in biomedical engineering, chiefly through grants to scientists, institutions, and professional societies (N. Sankaran, The Scientist, Feb. 21, 1994, page 3).

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) was formed in 1991 with...

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