Grand Challenges
The initiative's flagship event is the annual "IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference" (IEEE LSGCC), which aims to provide a public forum for discussions and debates of grand challenges in engineering life sciences and healthcare, and reviews of applications and advancements of engineering in biomedicine. The inaugural IEEE LSGCC, chaired by Bin He, was held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. on October 4–5, 2012, and attracted scientists and technologists like Nobel Prize winner Phillip Sharp from countries around the world. Proceedings of this first-ever IEEE LSGCC were presented in a paper entitled "Grand Challenges in Interfacing Engineering With Life Sciences and Medicine".