Prof. Savio L-Y. Woo Delivered the Keynote Speech as an Honored Guest of the Juanhu Lake Salon

2019-04-18

Prof. Savio L-Y. Woo, member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) and member of the National Academy of Engineering, recently delivered a keynote speech about biomedical engineering research in the US as an honored guest of the second Juanhu Lake Salon.

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With the theme of “Innovative Biomedical Engineering Research in the US: Current & Future Trends”, Prof. Savio L-Y. Woo summarized the applications of biomedical engineering at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and whole organism levels, detailing future medical applications and trends in biomedical science. “Biomedical engineering is the bridge between biology and clinical medicine”, he stated. Prof. Woo described in detail the important application of biomedicine in the field of human organ and tissue injury repair through the case of knee ligament repair.

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Thirty students of Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) attended the salon. Prof. Woo encouraged the students to find the intersection of biology and engineering, to explore new research and application fields.


Prof. Savio L-Y. Woo is a Distinguished University Professor of Bioengineering and the Founder and Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC), a diverse multidisciplinary research and educational center in the Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Prof. Woo has been a leader in Bioengineering and Orthopaedics. Dr. Woo is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (1991) (formerly the Institute of Medicine), the National Academy of Engineering (1994), and the Academia Sinica (1996), only one of four persons who have gained all three of these honors.

(Article and pictures by Ren Yue from Office of Scientific Research and Technology Transfer. Editor in chief: Xia Ping)

 

Further reading:Juan Hu Lake Salon