An online memorial/scientific seminar is being planned in honor of the late Dr. James B. Bassingthwaighte, an influential pioneer in biomedical engineering who helped shape the discipline at the University of Washington and internationally. Dr. Bassingthwaighte established the National Simulation Resource Facility for Circulatory Mass Transport and Exchange, which grew into the Physiome Project, a large-scale, on-going international collaborative effort to organize and integrate physiological knowledge from genome to integrated function. 

Dr. Bassingthwaighte's Cardiac Energy Grid collaborators Michael Regnier, UW professor of bioengineering, Andrew McCulloch of the University of California, San Diego, and Dan Beard of the University of Michigan are planning this online memorial/scientific symposium in his honor.