Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology (Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering) - Hardcover

Saltzman, W. Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521840996 ISBN 13: 9780521840996

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Links basic science and engineering principles to show how engineers create new methods of diagnosis and therapy for human disease.

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About the Author

W. Mark Saltzman is the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. His research interests include materials for controlled drug delivery, drug delivery to the brain, and tissue engineering. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University and, after joining the Yale faculty in 2002, was named the first Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Professor Saltzman has published more than 150 research papers, 3 authored books, and 2 edited books, and he is an inventor on 10 patents. His many honors and awards include a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1990); the Allan C. Davis Medal as Maryland's Outstanding Young Engineer (1995); the Controlled Release Society Young Investigator Award (1996); Fellow of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineers (1997); the Professional Progress in Engineering Award from Iowa State University (2000); Britton Chance Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (2000); and Distinguished Lecturer of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521840996
• ISBN 13: 9780521840996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656