BMEplanet—a consortium of 244 universities, corporations, government agencies, non-profit societies, and investment firms with bioengineering interests all over the world—is a collaboration network that aims to provide experiential education of new talent for the bioengineering workforce and enhanced translation of new bioengineering knowledge to products and services.  Our network facilitates:  multi-university design projects; international corporate internships; capstone (design) incubators for translational technologies; new person-to-person collaboration links; and enhanced corporate access for new markets.  Read more about us...

June 30, 2009, update:  BMEplanet is featured in the July 2009 issue of The Newsletter (page 11), a Universitas 21 publication.  The U-21 is a network of universities dedicated to international higher education.  We continue to actively develop our collaboration suite and expect to launch it sometime in July 2009.  In the meantime, we welcome your feedback on our requirements/designs.  In addition, if your organization has not yet partnered with us, please join us today so that you can have access to these tools free of charge!

June 1, 2009, update:  We are currently developing a suite of interactive collaboration tools at the core of our social networking Web site, including:  a bioengineering internship bank; a "collaborative project workspace" that will enable teams of researchers to share files and blog/vlog about research progress; and an "idea box" to share new ideas and discoveries and brainstorm further innovations.  We plan to launch these features by July 2009.