Training and Career Development: Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging, and Bioengineering – T15
The special emphasis panel (T15) reviews career development applications in the general areas of surgical sciences, biomedical imaging, and bioengineering. It encompasses the scientific topics covered by the Imaging, Surgery, and Bioengineering [ISB] Review Branch and evaluates projects across preclinical and clinical stages.
The panel reviews applications focused on the development or optimization of imaging technologies/methods, imaging systems, and associated hardware and software for studies in small or large animals, and humans. It includes molecular imaging with probes, tracers and contrast agents and imaging guided interventions and surgery.
The panel also evaluates interdisciplinary research in surgery and bioengineering in the context of surgical devices or surgical interventions, as well as complementary disciplines of surgery, anesthesiology, trauma, multiorgan and systemic injury, and surgical critical care.
Review Dates
A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting
Topics
- All stages of design, development and implementation of imaging technologies/methods and systems across imaging modalities (e.g., MRI, CT, optical, PET, SPECT, photoacoustic, ultrasound, multimodal platforms) including but not limited to artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches to imaging analysis
- All stages of development through application of novel imaging probes, tracers, and contrast agents of all sorts
- Development or optimization of new imaging technologies and protocols to target, guide, or control medical therapies or surgical interventions
- Design, development, and evaluation of surgical devices and procedures, including endoscopic surgical procedures, catheter-based surgery, minimally invasive surgery, microsurgical procedures, robotics, point-of-care implantable or wearable physiological monitoring and measurement devices in the context of surgical interventions; regenerative medicine and wound healing strategies related to surgical interventions; and computational modeling/simulations in surgery
- Mechanisms and therapeutic management of multiorgan and systemic injury associated with surgery, trauma, burn, sepsis, hemorrhage, ischemia-reperfusion; pathogenesis and therapeutic interventions for shock and multiple organ failure; wound healing; mechanisms of anesthetics, anesthetic side effects and pain management in general or local anesthesia and surgical care
Shared Interests and Overlaps
There are shared interests in development of probes, tracers, or contrast agents for use in the nervous system or in neurological disease with XXX. Applications proposing first in human studies for central nervous system targets, or translational applications of new tracers and contrast agents for neuroscience and neurological use are reviewed in XXX. Applications that emphasize early steps such as synthesis, candidate identification, tracer characterization, safety, dosing, and preclinical validation are reviewed in TXX.
There are shared interests in development or optimization of imaging technologies/methods, imaging systems, imaging hardware/software, and related technologies with XXX. Applications that emphasize development/optimization at a level where neuroscience is less central are reviewed in TXX. Applications that emphasize the characteristics of the nervous system including eye that are critical to the proposed work are reviewed in XXX.
There are shared interests in developing or evaluating new imaging technologies and protocols to target, guide, or control surgeries and medical therapies with XXX. Applications that emphasize developing an image guided surgical or medical treatment are reviewed in TXX, even if the target is a neurological disorder including eye disease. Applications that emphasize the development/optimization of an imaging technology or methodology fundamental to neuroscience are reviewed in XXX.
There are shared interests with YYY. Applications involving the development of imaging technologies at the small or large animal and human scales are reviewed in TXX. Applications focused on bioanalytical techniques, including sensors, separations, and mass spectrometry or biophysical methods, including magnetic resonance and optical spectroscopy, and optical imaging such as microscopy at the molecular, cellular, tissue levels are reviewed in YYY.
Applications focused on pathology imaging are not reviewed in the TXX…
