National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

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Mission

The mission of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies. The Institute is committed to integrating engineering and physical sciences with biology and medicine to advance our understanding of disease and its prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment. NIBIB supports emerging technology research and development within its internal laboratories and through grants, collaborations, and training.

Interest in Diversity

A group of young students gather around an iPad and play a bioengineering app.

Students are introduced to bioengineering concepts at NIH Science Day by playing the Want to be a bioengineer? The app was developed by NIBIB to encourage students to pursue careers in the STEM fields. Source: NIBIB photo.

NIBIB is committed to increasing the participation and success of racial and ethnic minorities and other underrepresented populations in the biomedical imaging and bioengineering communities. To this end, the institute develops and supports programs that enhance the recruitment, retention, training, and career development of underrepresented minorities, people with disabilities, and people from disadvantaged backgrounds across the career continuum into the biomedical workforce. NIBIB’s proactive approach to ensuring a diverse and sustainable biomedical workforce is to develop innovative programs that target roadblocks at critical transition points in the biomedical research pipeline that hinder the participation of underrepresented populations.

Diversity-Targeted Programs

Training Opportunities

Diversity Highlights

Maryam Elizondo worked as a Research Scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Antonios Mikos while earning her B.S. in Bioengineering at Rice University. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University.

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)

Maryam Elizondo thinks she might be “a little too stubborn.” Given that she will soon enter the MD, PhD program at a major medical center in Houston—after earning her bachelor’s degree from the Rice Department of Bioengineering—it seems a dose of stubborn has served her well.