Drexel University co-organized an International Workshop on Biomanufacturing at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from June 29- July 1, 2005.

Sponsored by NSF, Chinese NSF and Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, this workshop brought together multi-disciplinary researchers to review an emerging field of biomanufacturing and its applications to biomedical and tissue engineering. The workshop sought to identify synergies between engineering design/manufacturing and life sciences and its challenges and opportunities for future research and development.

The invited workshop participants and presenters included leading researchers from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC-Berkley, U. Mich., UT-Austin, Drexel, etc., as well as representatives from NSF and NIH. Dr. Selcuk Guceri, Dean of the College of Engineering, conducted an invited presentation at the workshop as well as Dr. Wei Sun, Associate Professor in the MEM Department. Detailed information about the workshop can be found at: http://www.mem.drexel.edu/biomanufacturing/