IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference, October 4 - 5, 2012, Washington, DC

本项目旨在组织IEEE生命科学基金挑战大会，旨在提供一个公共平台，就如何在广义上设计生命科学进行辩论和思想交流。会议将回顾过去十年取得的重大进展，并确定科学界在未来10年在工程生命科学和医疗保健方面面临的重大挑战。会议的成功举办将汇集知名学者、政府官员、业界代表和杰出的年轻研究人员，讨论和确定生物医学工程界和更大社会面临的关键问题和挑战。会议的成果将为科学界、政府和工业界提供指导，指导他们如何规划生命科学和医疗保健的未来。拟议的会议将包括一个为期两天的研讨会，邀请来自美国和其他国家的知名学者、政府官员和工业界代表进行演讲和小组讨论。欢迎一般参与者，但最多不超过200人。为期两天的会议将由一个单独的会议、平台介绍和关于六个专题的辩论组成。这是一份白皮书，概述了通过庞大的IEEE网络向科学界提出的重大挑战，将在发行量较大的杂志如IEEE Spectrum、IEEE Pluse、ORT Science/Natural等杂志上发表，并通过媒体报道向公众发表。IEEE在全球生物医学工程界具有强大的国际代表性。预计很大一部分参与者将来自国际社会。将尽一切努力鼓励妇女、少数族裔和残疾人参加会议。学术价值会议的学术价值将是确定生物医学工程界在未来10年面临的拨款挑战，就如何设计生命科学和卫生保健的未来向科学界、政府和行业提供指导。广泛影响会议的更广泛影响将包括确定对大社会的重要挑战，通过IEEE网络和媒体报道广泛传播会议成果，在国际发行量很大的杂志上发表特刊，以及强大的国际参与者。

Abstract1206695, HeThis project is to organize the IEEE Life Sciences Grant Challenges Conference, which is aimed at providing a public platform for debate and exchange of ideas on how to engineer the life sciences in a broad sense. The Conference will review significant progress that have been made in the past decade and identify grand challenges facing the scientific community in engineering life sciences and healthcare in the next 10 years.The successful organization of the conference will bring together leading scholars, government officials, representatives from industry, and outstanding young investigators to discuss and identify critical issues and challenges facing the biomedical engineering community and larger society. The outcome of the conference will provide guidance to the scientific community, government and industry with regard to how to engineer the future of life sciences and healthcare. The proposed conference will include a two-day workshop consisting of invited presentations and panel discussions by leading scholars, government officials and representative from industry both from the United States and other countries. General participants are welcome but will be limited to up to a total of 200 participants. The two days meeting will consist of a single session platform presentations and debates on the six topics. A white paper summarizing the grand challenges identified to the scientific community through the vast networks if IEEE, to be published in one of the well circulated magazines such as IEEE Spectrum, IEEE PLUSE, ort Science/Nature, and to the public via media coverage.IEEE has strong international representations in the global biomedical engineering community. It is anticipated that a substantial portion of the participants will come from international community. Every effort will be made to encourage the participation of women, racial/ethnic minorities, and person with disabilities in the conference. Intellectual MeritThe intellectual merits of the conference will be to identify grant challenges facing the biomedical engineering community in the next 10 years, provide guidance to the scientific community, government and industry with regard t how to engineer the future of life sciences and healthcare.Broader ImpactThe broader impacts of the meeting will include identification of important challenges for the large society, broad dissemination of the conference outcome via IEEE network and media coverage, publication of special issue in international well-circulated magazine, and strong international participants.