BMES serves as the lead society and professional home for biomedical engineers and bioengineers. BMES membership has grown to over 6,700 members, with more than 110+ BMES Student Chapters, three Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and four professional journals.
Welcome to the BMES Hub, a cutting-edge collaborative platform created to connect members, foster innovation, and facilitate conversations within the biomedical engineering community.
Discover all of the ways that you can boost your presence and ROI at the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting. Browse a range of on-site and digital promotional opportunities designed to suit any goal or budget that will provide maximum impact.
No pacemakers keeping hearts beating through the night. No prosthetics restoring independence. No early cancer detection saving lives.
This is the world we'd live in without sustained biomedical engineering research. Every breakthrough that exists today came from years of federally funded research. The medical breakthroughs of the next decade depend on funding decisions lawmakers are making today. Your story can show them what's at stake.
The funding decisions being made today determine whether the next breakthrough comes from your lab or R&D department, from a local med device company, or instead is developed overseas.
Share the stories behind breakthroughs
You know the researchers whose personal experiences fuel their work. Help us share those examples.
Secure tomorrow's innovations
Research support flowing now determines what solutions exist for the next generation's health challenges.
Building something bigger together.
The next decade of patient care depends on decisions made today. As lawmakers better understand the full BMES ecosystem — research, development, manufacturing and delivery — funding flows to sustain America's innovation leadership.
Share breakthrough examples that demonstrate to lawmakers what's at stake. BMES is amplifying these stories to build public support for biomedical engineering — and they'll become the foundation for a broader industry alliance.
Federal research funding in biomedical innovation delivers massive economic returns.
$94.58B in economic activity
From 2024 NIH funding alone. This is the economic force behind the pipeline to progress.
$36.8B in medical exports
Medical equipment exports in 2024. Your innovations power America's global competitiveness.
Your colleagues are ready.
More than 80% of surveyed BME professionals said they're ready to help demonstrate their field's impact to lawmakers. Our survey captured responses from 88 research areas, revealing both widespread funding challenges and remarkable consensus on solutions. Download the complete findings to see detailed demographics, funding dependency data and how professionals across academia and industry responded.
Federal investment in biomedical research generates $2.56 in economic return through a $250 billion innovation pipeline. Our comprehensive analysis covers the technical pipeline from lab bench to commercial scale-up, examining why industry can't replace federal research funding and how engineering methodology drives breakthrough solutions. Download the comprehensive analysis of America's biomedical engineering ecosystem.
The pipeline to progress needs both: economic proof that shows massive impact, and the breakthrough stories that help lawmakers understand what's at stake for their constituents.
