Conference: Student Support for 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Naples, Florida, June 22-26, 2011

会议：2011 年夏季生物工程会议学生支持，佛罗里达州那不勒斯，2011 年 6 月 22-26 日

• 批准号: 1109514
• 负责人: David Vorp
• 金额: $ 2.25万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1109514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Student; Support; 2011; Summer

1109514, VorpThis project will support the 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference in Naples, Florida on Jun 22-26, 2011. The NSF funds will aid in reducing student registration fees; and to help fund awards for the annual Student Paper Competition (the existence of awards is believed to increase participation and hence student attendance to this meeting). A hallmark of this meeting is the interaction and true integration of rigorous engineering principles and biologic concepts. The conference format will be 6 parallel sessions of oral presentations. Approximately a third to half of the accepted papers will be presented in poster format. A booklet will provide program details to the participants of the conference. All technical presentations will be two-page extended abstracts and compiled in a CD format, distributed to all registrants.Intellectual Merit: The SBC is an extremely high quality scientific and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary meeting. It is the premiere meeting for bioengineering with a focus on biomechanical engineering. The conference brings together the different bioengineering communities including cell and molecular engineering, tissue engineering, cardiovascular engineering, etc. It is co-sponsored by several prestigious bioengineering related societies. The requested funding for this meeting is to increase and enhance the participation of student attendees, to help ensure the future of our field. Plenary lectures at the 2011 SBC will highlight an outstanding speaker with lectures relevant for all attendees, and especially inspiring for student attendees. Dr. Elazer Edelman (MIT and Harvard) will deliver a lecture on vascular biotechnology from a clinician-scientist?s perspective.Dr. Roger Quinn (Case Western Reserve University) will lecture on nature-inspired design of robots and mechanisms to perform tasks to better assist people with disabilities.Six workshops, one ?Grand Challenge? event and our usual three award lectures will be held at the 2011 SBC. The Grand Challenge Competition to Predict Knee Loads in Vivo will build on successful similar events held in both 2009 and 2010. The aim of this competition is to advance the entire field of musculoskeletal modeling by critically evaluating muscle force estimates at the knee during gait using data collected from an actual patient with a force-measuring knee implant. Competitors will be given access to key biomechanical data and asked to use their unique computational models to predict knee contact forces which will be compared to those that are measured. Workshops to be held will include ?Frontiers in Research to Aid People with Disabilities?, ?Funding Landscape in Research to Aid People with Disabilities?, ?Mentoring of and for Bioengineers?, ?Gradients in Tissue Engineering?, ?360 Degree View in Orthopedics Research? and ?Mechanical Circulatory Support?. Finally, stimulating lectures will be given by the winners of the three Divisional awards ? YC Fung Award, Van Mow Medal, HR Lissner Award - to highlight three different career levels ? early, mid and late, respectively. Student and young professional attendees particularly benefit from hearing from these award winners.Broader Impact: In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it will serve an important cross-fertilization role. We expect to have bioengineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists participating in the meeting. In that manner, this conference will have a much broader impact than if it were to be attended by just the bioengineering community. Most importantly, we expect that more than 50% of the attendees will be students and other trainees (post-docs). This will provide a broad impact for the current times as well as for the future as these students will benefit by participation in the meeting and through the material presented by the plenary speakers and workshops. Furthermore, through the CD containing technical proceedings and conference web site, information presented at the meeting will be available to multiple societies and to the public at large.

该项目将支持2011年6月22-26日在佛罗里达州那不勒斯举行的2011年夏季生物工程会议。国家科学基金将帮助降低学生的注册费；并帮助资助年度学生论文比赛的奖项（奖项的存在被认为是为了增加参与，因此学生出席会议）。这次会议的一个标志是严格的工程原理和生物学概念的相互作用和真正的整合。会议形式为6个平行的口头报告会议。大约三分之一到一半的论文将以海报的形式提交。一本小册子将向与会者提供会议计划的详细内容。所有技术报告将是两页的扩展摘要，并汇编成CD格式，分发给所有注册人。智力优势：SBC是一个高质量的科学和智力刺激跨学科会议。这是生物工程的首次会议，重点是生物力学工程。会议汇集了不同的生物工程社区，包括细胞和分子工程，组织工程，心血管工程等。它是由几个著名的生物工程相关学会共同主办的。本次会议所要求的资金是为了增加和加强学生与会者的参与，以帮助确保我们领域的未来。2011年SBC的全体演讲将突出突出一位杰出的演讲者，他的演讲与所有与会者都相关，特别是对学生与会者具有启发性。埃拉兹·埃德尔曼博士（麻省理工学院和哈佛大学）将从一位临床科学家那里发表关于血管生物技术的演讲？perspective.Dr。罗杰·奎因（凯斯西储大学）将讲授受自然启发的机器人设计和机制，以更好地帮助残疾人。六个车间，一个？大挑战?活动和我们通常的三场颁奖讲座将在2011年SBC举行。预测体内膝关节负荷的大挑战赛将建立在2009年和2010年成功举办的类似赛事的基础上。本次竞赛的目的是通过使用收集自实际患者的膝关节植入物测力数据，对步态期间膝关节肌肉力的估计进行批判性评估，从而推进整个肌肉骨骼建模领域。参赛者将获得关键的生物力学数据，并被要求使用他们独特的计算模型来预测膝盖接触力，并将其与测量结果进行比较。举办的工作坊包括？帮助残疾人的研究前沿？， ？援助残疾人士研究的资助情况？， ？为生物工程师提供指导？， ？组织工程中的梯度？， ？骨科研究中的360度视角？然后呢?机械循环支架？最后，将由三个组别的优胜者进行精彩的演讲。冯耀辉奖、范茂奖章、人力资源利斯纳奖-突显三个不同的职业层次？分别是早、中、晚。学生和年轻的专业人士与会者特别受益于听取这些获奖者的意见。更广泛的影响：本次会议除了将对主流生物工程界产生直接影响外，还将发挥重要的交叉作用。我们希望有生物工程师、其他学科的工程师、细胞和分子生物学家、生物化学家、生物物理学家和其他科学家参加会议。以这种方式，这次会议将比仅仅由生物工程社区参加的会议产生更广泛的影响。最重要的是，我们预计超过50%的与会者将是学生和其他实习生（博士后）。这将对当前和未来产生广泛的影响，因为这些学生将通过参加会议以及通过全体发言人和讲习班提供的材料受益。此外，通过载有技术会议记录的光盘和会议网站，将向多个学会和广大公众提供会议上介绍的信息。