Biomedical Research Possible Workshop Topics

Possible Workshop Topics

1. Medicine and Life Sciences, Biomaterials, Biomedical Science and Engineering

• Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics
• Population health informatics
• In silico techniques
• Virtual screening
• Ultrasound
• Ultrasound imaging
• Photomedicine
• 3D printing technology in medicine and dentistry
• Ultrasound thermal therapy
• Magnetic resonance
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Infrared imaging
• Electron microscope imaging
• Imaging informatics
• Medical imaging technologies
• Computational imaging
• Neuroimaging
• Computational neuroanatomy
• Functional brain imaging
• Brain decoding and modeling
• Cloud medical imaging
• Optical imaging
• Mutidimensional imaging technologies
• Optical imaging and display technologies.
• Fluorescence imaging

• Optical coherence tomography (OCT)
• Biomedical computation and modeling
• Biomedical imaging and optics
• Biomedical imaging and sensing
• Biomedical imaging and instrumentation
• Brain-computer interface
• Biomedical image processing and analysis
• Nanomedicine
• Optical nanoscopy
• Electronic radiology
• Molecular medicine
• Bioelectronic medicine
• Electric medicine and the brain
  
• Molecular imaging
• Nuclear medicine
• Medicine and radiological sciences
• Molecular life sciences (Cancer)
• Molecular and biochemical techniques
• Molecular evolution and phylogeny   
  
• Molecular and cellular systems
• Nano-mechanisms for molecular systems
• Biomaterials
• Biomedical polymer material
• Biomembranes
• Bioceramics and composites material
• Artificial organs
• Bio-Nanotechnologies, Bio-NEMS, Bio-MEMS
• Biomechanics
• Orthopaedic biomechanics
• Nanomedicine
• Biomaterials for nanomedicine
• Physiological system and medical devices
• Chemical biology
• Chemistry and chemical biology (includes chemical physics)
• Synthetic biology
• Biophysics
• Molecular biophysics
• Biological chemistry
• Biophotonics and optical radiology
• Human genetics
• Comparative genomics 
  
• Evolution and comparative genomics
  
• Network medicine
• Computational medicine
• Computational anatomy
  
• Computational molecular medicine 
  
• Computational physiological medicine
• Computational oncology
• Translational medicine
• Computational immunology  
  
• Computational neuroscience
  
• Genetic regulatory networks
  
• Metabolic networks
• Disease models and epidemiology
• Disease modeling and bioinformatics
• Genetic epidemiology 
• Gene regulation and transcriptomics   
• Genome evolution
• Ecology & evolutionary biology
• DNA sequencing
• Next generation sequencing (NGS)
• Next generation sequencing informatics
• Sequence analysis with distributed resources
• Massively parallel sequencing and applications
  
• Molecular marker (identified as genetic marker)
• Sequence search and alignment
• Sequence analysis, evolution and phylogeny  
• Translational bioinformatics and integrative genomics tools 
• Patient-centered precision medicine therapies
• Pharmacogenomics
• Microarray technologies
• Protein structure prediction and molecular simulation
• Protein structure, function, and interactions  
• Protein interact and molecular networks
• Protein engineering
• Epigenomics
• Bioinformatics and integrative genomics   
  
• Population genomics
  
• Large-scale genomics 
• Functional genomics, proteomics
• Mass spectrometry and proteomics
  
• Gene transcription and RNA Processing  
• Genes and their regulation
• Gene expression microarrays
• Gene expression analysis
• Genetic engineering/modification
• Genetic signature
• Molecular genetics and development
• Genome-wide association for disease genes
• Genomic medicine
• Gene therapy
• Next-generation gene therapy approaches
• Aging and geriatric research
• Epigenetics and aging
• Atherosclerosis
  
• Audiology
• Translational genomics in engineering
  
• Tissue engineering
• Neuro-engineering
• Cell engineering
• Cellular and biomolecular Engineering
• Device-tissue integration
• Regenerative medicine
• Cloning and stem cell research
• Stem cell and regenerative biology
• Stem cell therapies
• Cell transplant
  
• Rehabilitation engineering
• Human movement analysis
• Artificial nervous system
• Prosthetics and orthotics
• Preventive medicine
  
• Pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine
• Genomic and molecular pathology
• Experimental pathology
  
• Physiology
• Cellular & molecular physiology
• Neurophysiology
  
• Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences
• Integrated life sciences
• Cell and developmental biology
• Molecular and cellular biology
• Systems biology
• Molecular and comparative pathobiology
• Molecular biology and genetics
• Molecular cytogenetics
• Virology
• Viral oncology
• Immunology
• Endocrinology
• Rheumatology
  
• Allergy
• Targeted therapy
• Nanotechnology-based cancer therapeutics
• Metastasis
  
• Tumor microenvironment
• Cancer biology and genetics
• Cancer genomics
• Cancer stem cell biology
• Cancer and haematology
• Cancer clinical trials
• Cancer care and epidemiology
• Cancer systems immunology
  
• Cancer immunotherapy
• Image-guided cancer treatment
• Precision cancer diagnostics
• Immune system responses and immunogenicity
• Gene and cell therapy
• in vivo cancer detection
• Radiation oncology
• Radiation physics
• Radiation biology
• Medical physics
• Proton therapy
• DNA damage signalling
• DNA repair in cancer treatment
• Tumour microenvironment and its effects
• Behavioral medicine
• Neuroinformatics
• Neuroscience and neuroengineering
• Neurological disorders and diseases 
• Stress, pain, molecular neurobiology
• Signal transduction
• Cardiovascular diseases
  
• Cardiovascular epidemiology
• Cardiac electrophysiology and interventional cardiology
• Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
  
• Bateriology
  
• Infectious diseases
• Disease transmission
  
• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Hematology diseases
• Emerging infectious diseases
• Nutrition, obesity, diabetes, and related metabolic diseases
• Dental and oral medicine
• Innovative dental disease prevention therapies and strategies
• Anesthesiology
• Anesthesiology and pain medicine
• Clinical pharmacology
  
• Cellular and molecular pharmacology
• Pharmacology and molecular sciences
• Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry
• Pharmaceutical engineering
• Drug delivery and therapeutics
• Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems
• Drug discovery system
• Computational drug discovery
• Computational pharmacology
• Drug discovery and bioinformatics
• Drug development and bioinformatics
• Quantitative systems pharmacology
• Biological sciences in dental medicine
• Biological sciences in public health
• Biomarkers and clinical research
• Oncology biomarkers
• Neurological biomarkers
• Inflammatory and immunological biomarkers
• Inflammation and remodeling
• Vaccine development
• Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
• Big data and precision medicine
• Precision oncology
• Personalized medicine
• Predictive medicine
• The future of medicine
• Vaccine technology
• In vitro research, Ex vivo research, and In vivo research
• Pre-clinical trials and Clinical trials
  
• Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and herbal medicine
• New emerging areas
  

(Interlaken, Switzerland - Alvin Wei-Cheng Wong)

2. Biomedical and Health Informatics, Wireless Health and Biomedical Devices

• Intelligent hospital
• Digital biology
• Digital medicine
• Digital healthcare
• Bio-System-on-a-Chip (Bio-SoC)
• Organ-on-A-Chip
• Body-on-A-Chip
• Bioinstrumentation
• Electrophysiology techniques
• Big data and analytics in life sciences
• Computational modeling & data integration
  
• Spatial epidemiology
• Emerging cloud-based applications for managing medical media data
• Cloud-based multimedia processing for health care 
• Databases, ontologies, and text mining
  
• Computational systems biology  
• Cognitive systems
• Machine learning in Biomedical informatics
• Predictive medicine
• Bioinformatics
• RNA bioinformatics
  
• Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing
• Statistical Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics of diseases 
  
• Biomedical data engineering
• Biomedical cloud computing
• Intelligent visual computing
• DNA computing
• Data visualization
• Bioimaging and Data visualization
• Clinical and translational informatics
• Computational phenotyping from electronic health records
• Medical robotics
• 3D Bioprinting
  
• Computer assisted intervention systems
• Computer assisted surgery
• Clinical informatics
• Nursing informatics
• Clinical natural language processing
• Biomedical text mining and ontologies
  
• Biological data mining and visualization
  
• Biomedical intelligence & clinical data analysis   
  
• Algorithmic development for high-throughput data-mining
• Internet of things (IoT) for health
• Smart and connected healthcare
• Robot-assisted surgery 
• Virtual nursing assistants 
• Dosage error reduction 
• Clinical trial participant identifier 
• Automated image diagnosis 
• Health system integration
• Ad hoc wireless networks for enhanced monitoring
• Health monitoring
• Disease recognition, treatment tracking, and rehabilitation progress
• Healthcare telemetry and telemedicine
• Biomedical and biological sensors
• Implantable medical device security
• Signal processing
• Biomedical signal/image analysis
• Biomedical signal processing and system applications
• Wearable and implantable systems
  
• Wearable medical devices and sensors
• Implantable and ingestible medical devices and sensors
• Sensors and smart wireless sensing systems
• Medical devices and IoT
• Nanosensors
• 5G cellular networks (including cognitive radio technology, device-to-device communications, heterogeneous networks)

• Advanced wireless digital systems including energy scavenging (or
  harvesting) for health monitoring
• Heterogeneous wireless technologies and their co-existence in medical
  environments
• High data rate wireless protocols for biosignals
• Miniaturization of wireless devices and micro sensors for medical applications
• Wireless technologies for micro medical sensors
• Wireless integrated micro-sensing and systems
• Media-cloud based resource allocation approaches
  
• Advances in sensor devices for biomedical monitoring 
• Intelligent mobile sensing and ubiquitous computing technologies focusing on health care and medical applications

• Medical IC
• Nanoelectronic Biosensor
• Nanoelectronic Bio-chip
• Biomedical devices for remote patient monitoring
• Personal area networks and body area networks
• Radio-frequency wireless technology in medical devices and safety
• Wireless positioning technologies in medicine
• Microwave systems for therapeutic biomedical applications
• Microwave imaging for biomedical applications
• Microwave systems for biological applications
• Microwave interaction with biological tissues
• Remote diagnosis and patient management
• Biomedical devices for remote monitoring
• Wearable, outdoor and home-based applications
• All-pervasive wireless systems for health applications
• Mobile multimedia cloud for health care
• Point of care
• Electronic health records
• Techniques for big data analytics in healthcare
• Applications of big data analytics in healthcare
• Health services
• Smart hospitals
• Management in hospitals
• Bio-health data mining
• Visualization of bio-medical data and informatics in Biological Systems and Neuroinformatics
• Visual perception and mental health
• Cardiovascular health informatics
• Virtual reality in health care (education and training, assisted surgery, clinical programs, rehabilitation and therapy, 3D printing)
• Virtual reality in biomedicine and surgery
• Bio-inspired robotics and biomimics
• Medical capsule robots
• Brain-computer interfacing and human–computer interfacing
• Visual information processing in the human brain
• Real time analytics on streaming medical media data
  
• Cloud-based health monitoring
  
• M-QoE/M-QoS/M-QoC variations in health-cloud applications
  
• Cloud-based remote display Protocol for health care
  
• Cloud based model for speech-enabling healthcare
  
• Emerging media cloud protocols, surveys, applications
  
• Serious games/Exergames for health and sports
• Augmentative and alternative communication

• New emerging areas