HELLO FRIENDS--- A white man once said, “to hide something from a black man put it inside a book". This means the black man doesn't have patience to seek information in a TEXT and when he sees a long essay or a big text book, he is not patient enough to read it through to the end. To test this statement, i have written a long essay from my heart even without a manuscript about the PROSPECT of Bioengineering as a field every physicist, computer scientist and electrical engineers is qualified enough to explore. Please take your time to dig out the deep treasure hidden in this short essay which i wrote out of my growing interest in Biomedical engineering as a field that is changing the face of health care, medical research, pharmacy, applied sciences and Investors Preferences.
I
believe sharing information is a service we owe each other and its better than
giving money to a man. Friends do you know Biomedical engineering/Bioengineering
is one of the most challenging field a physicist, computer scientist and
engineers can think of specializing in??..Especially those of you who once
loved medicine, biology or even chemistry. I never knew what Bioengineering
entailed until i came to Korea. Here, Biomedical engineering is a field so
important that Samsung, POSCO(biggest steel company in the world), Microsoft
and almost all Big IT companies from Asia to US are continuously investing
billions of dollars into this field...it’s a beautiful and complex field that
combines medical scientist, surgeons, physicist, computer scientist and
electrical engineers into one specialization...Bio engineers are fast changing
the world..In a Review Bill Gates wrote last week, he said “No one knows for
sure which field or innovation will be the biggest tomorrow so doesn't wonder
why Microsoft and other big companies are investing in Bio-medical/Bio-engineering".
US government, Korea government, German
governments, Big pharmaceuticals and top universities are investing billions of
dollars in Bioengineering and you can go and research the figures yourself. Bio
engineers are designing models to analyze cancer cells using super computers
and mainframes, using 3D printing they are designing vital human organs in the
Laboratory and implanting artificial veins and organs, which they made in the
LAB expertise from Computer scientist, physicist, and medical doctors and
surgeons...This field also include Bio-fuels and Biodiesel production...As i
said earlier, i thought this was a field specially for medical doctors, but
until i meet a friend who is from Ghana. He had a First class in computer
engineering but was advised to do masters(without a need for PGD) In Biomedical
in UK..today he pursuing a PHD in Bioengineering in South Korea...through him,
i learnt how bio engineers are designing physical models(same way you have been
doing all your life in physics, material sciences, electrical engineering and
Quantum mechanics..all you did at FUT O was designing models..that was my
conclusion of the physics we did at FUTO and that is a useful skill in all
fields of engineering, medical researches and sciences in general) for the
human body systems, the cells and even going ahead to program and analyze their
models using mathematical techniques like numerical computational techniques
which many of us are quite familiar with....
I never knew Physicist could become
Biomedical engineers working in special projects with Neurosurgeons, computer
scientist and electrical engineers...This is a great prospect and a fine
specialization..I hope to share some masters advert in Biomedical engineering
with anyone and if you read the requirement of such programs and the type of
researches they are doing , you will be inspired to know more about Biomedical
engineering...The most important thing is that bio engineers are giving hope
and life to seriously ill patients..e.g using SEMICONDUCTORS CHIP transplants
into the retina of the human eyes, Bio engineers at Cambridge university, where
able to give shady visions to blind people...it goes so exciting and wide...Bio
engineers have been able to design very complicated audio sensors to be
implanted into the human ears to help deaf people hear..using principles of
physics and electrical engineering, these devices are powered by trapping
energy from the inner ear and sent to the device and also receive sound waves
in similar manner explained by physical laws and principles..Bio engineers,
also design artificial heart(Called HEART-PACERS) that do not need batteries
but get charged by magnetic couplings using Faraday's principles and laws(the
same coupling that helps transfer energy wirelessly in a Transformer) etc.. The
possibilities in Biomedical engineering are so wide and i want you guys to know
there are many big companies and lots of hospital both abroad and Nigeria that
are looking for Bio engineers to employ with big pay Cheque… Now i understand
why Doc. Orji, in Physics, at Futo and other good universities in Nigeria, UNIBEN
is one of the Nigerian Universities, where such a course is offered at graduate
level…
But medical physics is just a section of Bioengineering and its not only
about repairing and designing medical instruments used in the hospitals, but
also is a branch of Bioengineering that has great application in medicine
too.... I am just trying to share information, because lack of information
steals opportunity from a man. Initially, I thought “IT guys” are those that do
CCNA, MCSE and ORACLE, but abroad most IT/electrical/physics students( like in
S/Korea), don't even take these IT courses, we often kill ourselves to do in
Nigeria, in order to be called an IT professional, To many in Nigeria, IT
professionals are those sitting in a server room to ensure everybody's computer
is in good working condition…That is a flawed picture and so incomplete in
describing who an IT professional is...I never knew an IT professional includes
Electromagnetic engineers, people who design broadband Antennas and microwave
systems for Aircraft communication, Broadcasting systems , optical
communication systems or those guys who help to design useful computer and
medical interfaces that interact with the human body in order to communicate by
wirelessly protocols useful vital information(in video , sound or text format )
about a patient to an output recipient. I never knew IT professional are
responsible for designing communication protocols for RFID implantable chips(In
Obama care) and other security/Identification systems used by cargo/freight
companies to monitors goods on high sea to those used by marketing companies to
monitor sales and demands of goods. Actually such a poor description of IT that
goes down to doing CCNA, MCSE or ORACLE DATABASE is a reflection of how
backwards our Universities have become as our students don't even learn about
updated courses of studies on recent development in computing and applied
sciences let alone do researches in these emerging fields.
Our curricula, narrows our mind and understanding of the vast
application of science, engineering and computing... My professor here in South
Korea worked at Samsung as a wireless mobile engineer for 10years, but today he
is getting research funding from companies to design nano-wireless Bio sensor
systems that can send video images and wireless data’s of a patient's internal
organs from wherever the patient is residing to their doctors ( e.g. from their
homes and offices and their doctors in remote locations distances apart using
radio communication protocols) and he works as researcher in one of the LAB in
the IT/Electronics department in my university. Through his researches and
similar works done all round the world, doctors would be able to monitor on
real time( every seconds) the condition of their patient's internal organs like
the heart, lungs or liver and that is Bioengineering and IT for
you....combining many field together to bring possibilities to patients and
doctors...It's important to note that my professor have an undergraduate
foundation in Physics &electrical engineering and this shows how Biomedical
engineering is a welcome field for any physicist, electrical engineer or
computer scientist to specialize in...I will share below an advert on a masters
scholarship in Bioengineering in the area of Cancer researchers.
The scholarship
board is looking for Physical and applied scientist and engineers like you...It
will also be clear to you that, to do your masters in Biomedical engineering in
UK, you do not need a PGD in Biological sciences or Bioengineering if your
undergraduate major is in Phyics, electrical engineering or Computer
science.This is also true in other countries of the world like South
Korea,Japan,Australia,Canada and the US.--- Ezuma Martins.Chidozie 11:52pm
Martins Ezuma i am trying to convince my people to pursue Bio engineering and
other exciting high tech fields of current research ....nothing is as bad as a
nation as finding a nation and her people sleeping and in deep oblivion while
other nations prepare for the future ...It's worst than sleeping all day and
all night when you have a serious final exam ahead...our nation was sleeping
when other nations spent decades exploring the power within semiconductors and
computing and IT..
Today we buy all the computers, phones, radios and home
appliances we need...and i see Bioengineering as a similar case..we may wake up
to find other nations have gone so far ahead of us..we will then start begging
for the transfer of technology as its always the case with us as a nation and a
continent...who is ready to sincerely transfer the technology/Asset that gives
her people a comparative advantage economically and in all in all aspects of
human interaction even in military and sports than the people from
underdeveloped countries and the emerging countries...who is willing to give
away the privilege that makes you a slave to them and the right to brag as a
master to many beggars...who is willing to let go that subtle commanding power
that makes other nations come to her nation to get the best education,
healthcare services and even enjoy the best of tourism and sport..who is
willing to share her precious gold equally with the poor...i am talking of
nothing less than KNOWLEDGE ...deep knowledge of Science and Engineering.....
I
want people to wake up and see that there are vast opportunities for them to unfold and grab the treasures within. But it’s impossible to OPEN an
opportunity you never know exists in the first case. I want us to see high technological
science and engineering is the only way we can become a self reliant nation and
leave a hope for our children and generations to come. we must go for KNOWLEDGE
and nothing less than the LATEST INNOVATION 12:30am Martins Ezuma BIOENGINEERS
IN CANCER RESEARCH---Applied physicist, computer scientist and electrical
engineering majors needed........................Cancer Engineering...at
Imperial college London..BIOTECHNOLOGY Specialization.... Four MRes
studentships are available at Imperial College London as part of the College’s
new Network of Excellence in Cancer Engineering. The Network, which is based in
the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, has the aim of bringing together
biomedical scientists/clinicians and physical scientists/engineers with an
interest in cancer research. Students will be registered for the MRes in
Bioengineering commencing at the start of the 2013/14 academic year.
They will
undertake a 9-month research project after they have received training in
research methods, optional lecture courses from the MSc in Biomedical
Engineering and a series of lectures in cancer-related topics from the Imperial
CRUK Centre; they will benefit from working alongside other students under the
Network. The studentship covers tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a bursary
of £15,726.
Funding will be sought during the course for PhD studentships to
continue successful MRes projects. Each research project will be overseen by
joint supervisors from complementary disciplines, with at least one from
biomedical/clinical sciences and at least one from engineering/physical
sciences. Please see www.imperial.ac.uk/biomedeng/cancer_bioengineering for more
information.
Student Eligibility All students must have a good honors degree (2.1
or above) in a related sciences subject. EU nationality applicants who meet the
relevant criteria are eligible for the same financial award as British
nationality applicants. Research Projects Studentships are available for each
of the four projects below: Title: Metal-induced fluorescence enhancement
(MIFE) for sensitive cancer biomarker detection. Supervisors: Prof Mary Ryan,
Prof Paul Abel, Dr Fang Xie, Dr Alex Porter. Description: Metal-induced
fluorescence enhancement (MIFE) is a promising strategy to increase the
sensitivity of fluorescence-based assays; it could allow reliable measurement
of lower levels of biomarkers, leading to earlier cancer detection. A new,
low-cost and versatile technique suitable for early breast cancer diagnosis
would be developed by engineering MIFE substrates that give large and
reproducible fluorescence enhancement.
The longer-term aim is to build
microarrays with a panel of antibodies against recognized cancer biomarkers,
giving increased sensitivity in the detection of cancer gene expression. Title:
Implantable sensor technology to monitor response to chemotherapy in epithelial
ovarian cancer.Supervisors: Prof Martyn Boutelle, Dr Christina Fotopoulou, Dr
Emmanuel M Drakakis, Prof Hani Gabra. Description: Death from epithelial
ovarian cancer often arises as a result of residual peritoneal disease that is
resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy. Understanding the heterogeneity of
disease is a major aim: biomarkers that can indicate outcome before or shortly
after the initiation of therapy would prevent unnecessary toxicity from
ineffective chemotherapy.
This project would develop implantable sensor
technology for monitoring tumour response in individual patients during the
initial phases of therapy. 3. Title: Computational modeling of molecule and
cell transport through lymph nodes. Supervisors: Prof James E. Moore Jr, Dr
Christina Fotopoulou. Description: Metastatic cells from tumours are often
taken up by the lymphatic system and gather in large numbers in lymph nodes.
Despite the importance of lymph nodes to the spread of the disease, little is
known about how immune cells, cancer cells, antigens and lymph move through
them and interact. This project would construct a computational model of
molecule and cell transport inside a lymph node based on recent multiphoton
imaging and histology of nodes.
The model would facilitate the testing of new
hypotheses by performing virtual “experiments” that could not be conducted in
vivo, and assist in the development of better treatment modalities such as
implantable, tissue-engineered node constructs.4. A fourth project involving
supervisor(s) from the Faculty of Natural Sciences is currently under
selection. Application Process Please apply for the MRes in Bioengineering
through the Imperial College online system (see http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/bioengineering/courses/mres) as soon as
possible.
The deadline for applications is 23rdAugust 2013. To be considered
for the Cancer Engineering studentship awards you must also email supporting
documents (CV, personal statement and references) to
be.phdadmissions@imperial.ac.uk with Cancer Engineering in the subject line,
specifying any preference(s) for research project(s) from those listed above. Further
Information Application Deadline : 23 August 2013Download this Call as PDF Contact
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Martins Ezuma Below is a research scholarship specially for EU students...i am
posting it here so you can, please print and share with your younger friends,
in order for them to see and appreciate the wonders of Bioengineering in
medicine..Some doctors abroad are even going for masters programs in
Bioengineering.
Here, in this advert for masters scholarship in Bioengineering,
the focus is on the development of treatment procedures for cancer and the
search for early detection technologies, which is considered as the best bet to
beat cancer----- I just wish it could inspire purpose and hunger in the hearts
of many graduate students to think about a specializing in Bioengineering and
other advanced areas of engineering researches which the developed world is
currently pursuing with all their hearts while we slumber in ignorance of quick
money jobs.
There are lots of research areas and scholarship opportunities for
graduate students but i will just share this one on Cancer research by a UK
university. Most of our brilliant brains who have a degree in applied sciences,
medical sciences and electrical& computer engineering are the best
qualified candidates for these areas of researches and specialization but many
are wasting in some sectors where their skills and passion are not even
explored a bit. Please share my messages with NYSC Corps' members you know and
young men-tees under your campus ministry, and share with graduate students
from electrical engineering, computer science and the other physical sciences
who once had a passion to do medicine and have a love for high technology
research areas. As well, share my post with JAMB students who are considering
entering the University in the nearest
future........................................................................................................................................
BIOENGINEERS IN CANCER RESEARCH---Applied physicist, computer scientist and
electrical engineering majors needed........................Cancer
Engineering...at Imperial college London…BIOTECHNOLOGY Specialization.... Four
MRes studentships are available at Imperial College London as part of the
College’s new Network of Excellence in Cancer Engineering. The Network, which
is based in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, has the aim of bringing
together biomedical scientists/clinicians and physical scientists/engineers
with an interest in cancer research. Students will be registered for the MRes in
Bioengineering commencing at the start of the 2013/14 academic year. They will
undertake a 9-month research project after they have received training in
research methods, optional lecture courses from the MSc in Biomedical
Engineering and a series of lectures in cancer-related topics from the Imperial
CRUK Centre; they will benefit from working alongside other students under the
Network. The studentship covers tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a bursary
of £15,726. Funding will be sought during the course for PhD studentships to
continue successful MRes projects. Each research project will be overseen by
joint supervisors from complementary disciplines, with at least one from
biomedical/clinical sciences and at least one from engineering/physical sciences.
Please seewww.imperial.ac.uk/biomedeng/cancer_bioengineering for more
information.
share the information...share the love..lets help
each other get inspired to become distinguished...
You can reach the author through his mail: ezuma3000@yahoo.com
-By Francis Muoneke.
B.Eng. FUTO.
You can reach the author through his mail: ezuma3000@yahoo.com
-By Francis Muoneke.
B.Eng. FUTO.
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