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| Upcoming Webinars! SBE will host webinars by Ali Khademhosseini on August 23, Tillman Gerngross on September 5, and Dane Wittrup on September 26! Webinars will focus on: hydrogels for tissue engineering and protein engineering. Be sure to check out these incredible webinars from some of the field's leading experts! |
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The AIChE Annual Meeting is right around the corner! Register now and be sure to check out SBE's events:
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| The Request for Proposals for the 2012 ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Research Grant will close for pre-proposals on September 14, 2011. Requests should focus on green engineering research areas. Proposals will be accepted from public and private institutions of higher education worldwide. | |||||||||
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| The Call for Papers for SBE's Conference on Electrofuels Research is now open. The conference will be held this November 6-9, 2011 at the Biltmore in Providence, RI. The objective of the conference is to develop an entirely new paradigm for the production of liquid fuels that could overcome the challenges associated with current technologies. | |||||||||
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| The Call for Papers for SBE and IFS's Sustainability in (Bio)Pharmaceuticals conference to be held February 19-22, 2012 in San Juan is now open. The meeting will cover Material Selection and Material Efficiency, Making Multi-Use vs Single-Use Process Decisions, Greening Manufacturing Processes, and Sustainable Approaches to Product Delivery from Lab to Patient. This conference is co-organized by the Institute for Sustainability (IFS). | |||||||||
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| Save the Date for SBE and ISSCR's Third International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering to be held April 29 – May 2, 2012 in Downtown Seattle, WA. The conference will bring together engineers, biologists, and clinicians who are working on cellular therapies in order to accelerate progress towards designing the stem cell and its environment. This conference is co-organized by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). | |||||||||
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Attending the AIChE Annual Meeting? Don't forget to stop by SBE's events including:
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| Still looking for a job this summer? Be sure to check out SBE's Job Boards if you're looking for great jobs in the biological engineering industry. | |||||||||
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| Thinking about starting an SBE Student Chapter this fall? Email Derek Lapiska at derel@aiche.org for more information. | |||||||||
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| SBE's e-Connections is edited by Adrian Andrew Fay, Web Science Editor, with input from SBE staff. Contact us at bio@aiche.org. | |||||||||
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