10th NBC and 1st ICBEM
Arrangements for the 10th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and
the 1st International Conference on Bioelectro magnetism are progressing well.
The Secretariat has received some 550 reply cards expressing a considerable interest
in the conferences. The www Home Page of the conference has been visited about 750 times.
On this basis we expect some 500 - 600 active participants to attend the conferences.
The arrangements for the conference programs has proceeded well. At the moment
we have some 30 organized sessions under development. About 10 invited speakers
have already been appointed. One of them, Professor Ivar Giaever is a Nobel Laureate.
He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973.
Innovative Research Group - IRG Ltd
Scientists of the Ragnar Granit Institute have established a company whose name is:
Innovative Research Group - IRG Ltd. It is the purpose of the company to "design, produce,
import and sell medical electronic devices and information systems and to consult in this field".
The partners of the company are: Jaakko Malmivuo, Hannu Eskola, Juha Nousiainen,
Jari Hyttinen, Rami Lehtinen and Veikko Suihko. Jaakko Malmivuo serves as the Chairman of the Board.
IRG will be to commercialize the innovations made at the Ragnar Granit Institute.
The Biomedical Engineering Research Center now incorporates research activities of
the engineers (RGI), physicians (TAUCH, TAU) and a commercial company, thus fulfilling
the requirements of an interdisciplinary research and development center.
Studia Generalia Lecture Series
The Ragnar Granit Foundation will organize a series of Studia Generalia lectures.
They will be given in the lecture hall of the Old Library House of Tampere.
In these lectures, experts from the Ragnar Granit Institute, Tampere University and
Tampere University Hospital will describe the bioelectric phenomena of nerve and muscle cells
in a popular form. By measuring these phenom ena, like the ECG generated by the heart
and the EEG generated by the brain, we obtain important information about the function
and health of these organs. In each lecture these phenomena will be explained by both
a technical and a medical expert.
Lecture 1, Tuesday 16.1.96, 18-20 o'clock
Ragnar Granit, Finnish Nobel Prize Winner
Introduction to bioelectric phenomena
Professor Jaakko Malmivuo, RGI
Lecture 2, Tuesday 23.1.96, 18-20 o'clock
Our electric brain
Associate Professor Hannu Eskola, RGI
Professor Harry Frey, TAUCH
Lecture 3, Thursday 1.2.96, 18-20 o'clock
The electric heart
Professor Jaakko Malmivuo, RGI
Docent Kaj Groundstroem, TAUCH
Lecture 4, Thursday 8.2.96, 18-20 o'clock
Our electric senses
Associate Professor Hannu Eskola, RGI
Professor Mikko Sams, TAU
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