RSVPs are being accepted for the 2019 Science, Engineering and Medicine (SEM) Research Retreat to be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 8, at the Embassy Suites Omaha-La Vista/Hotel & Conference Center in La Vista.
The 2019 SEM Research Retreat is jointly sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, UNMC and the Great Plains IDeA-Clinical and Translational Research (GP IDeA-CTR). This retreat is part of a multi-year SEM initiative designed to catalyze new interdisciplinary research collaborations to enhance competitiveness for federal funding.
This half-day SEM Research Retreat targets the following topics:
- biomedical sensing technologies/new diagnostics and therapeutics;
- human/biological physical interfaces/human factors engineering;
- regenerative medicine/rehabilitation engineering;
- health informatics;
- bioimaging technologies; and
- countermeasures to chemical, biological, and/or radiological agents detrimental to health.
The goal of the retreat is to assist researchers in finding collaborators to solve challenging problems in the aforementioned topics. Participants are asked to prepare a poster describing a research idea or activity. During the first poster session, UNMC and University of Nebraska at Omaha faculty will display their posters while UNL faculty will visit posters of interest to discuss potential collaborations. During the second poster session, the roles will be reversed with UNL faculty displaying their posters while UNMC and UNO faculty visit these posters.
A networking lunch will include updates and information on pilot grant funding opportunities from Directors of several Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBREs) and the Great Plains IDeA-Clinical and Translational Research Center.
Following the retreat, interdisciplinary research teams will be invited to submit project proposals for seed funding of up to $100,000 over two years. A request for applications describing this funding opportunity will be available in the near future.
Please RSVP by Friday, March 1, here.
Note that the registration site also includes a request for information related to your expertise, research questions you want to address, and innovative tools and technologies you have or are seeking. This information will be shared with everyone who registers to attend the retreat.