Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to participate in the 6th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference this year in November.
Muhammad H. Zaman
Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to participate in the 6th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference this year in November. This years topic of complexity will focus on complex biological, physical and social systems. The conference board, comprising of members of national academy of sciences, national academy of engineering and the Institute of medicine selected participants from over 350 applicants which included assistant, associate and full professors from institutions across that nation, leading researchers in industry and national labs.
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative was created to stimulate new modes of inquiry and break down the conceptual and institutional barriers to interdisciplinary research that could yield significant benefits to science and society. The National Academies and Keck Foundation believe that considerable scientific progress will be achieved by providing a counterbalance to the powerful impulse to isolate research within academic fields, by engaging scientists from different disciplines to focus on new questions on which they can base entirely new research, and by encouraging and rewarding outstanding communication -- between scientists as well as between the scientific enterprise and the public. The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative is funded through a generous grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
Dr. Zaman's lab studies biological complexity in the context of multi-scale architecture of cellular structure and function. Using computational tools rooted in statistical and continuum mechanics, informatics and high resolution imaging, the Zaman lab studies the integration of length and timescales in cell signaling, cell migration and cell-matrix interactions.
