title: Engineering as a new frontier for translational medicine.
abstract: The inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that facilitates precision diagnostics and therapeutics to improve health care delivery for all.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA 92037, USA. shuchien@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Shu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chien
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Rashid
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bashir
authors.affiliation: Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Nerem
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Roderic
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pettigrew
mesh_terms: D004738:Engineering; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014481:United States
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