International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering, April 29, 2012 - May 2, 2012, Seattle, WA

1232544/Cortes-Camino这项提案是为了支持将于2012年4月29日至5月2日(星期三)在华盛顿州西雅图喜来登酒店举行的“第三届干细胞工程国际会议”。会议主席是肖恩·帕莱克和查尔斯·默里。干细胞领域迅速崛起，成为生物学、生物工程和医学研究的一个重要的多学科领域。然而，没有任何论坛的主要目标是将生物学家、内科科学家和工程师聚集在一起，讨论他们的学科如何合作，为限制新技术和疗法发展的问题找到新的解决方案。为满足这一需要，新加坡国立大学与国际干细胞工程学会合作，正在组织和发起第三届国际干细胞工程会议。第三届国际干细胞工程会议将是每两年举行一次的国际干细胞工程会议系列会议中的第三次，这些会议旨在汇聚学术界和工业界的研究人员，他们正在使用量化方法和新技术开发来促进对干细胞生物学和工程学的理解和应用。ICSCE系列会议将有助于促进、塑造和完善干细胞工程领域的定义。预计将有大约200人参加。智力上的优点目前还没有其他会议能为新兴的干细胞工程领域提供论坛。尽管工程师参加了国际干细胞研究协会会议等国际会议，但在这次或类似的活动中，干细胞工程师和干细胞生物学家之间并没有直接的互动论坛。ISSCR同意共同组织这一活动的事实证明了对这两个社区之间平衡互动的重要性的认识。从生物工程方面来看，尽管有其他会议在干细胞工程方面进行了一些规划(AIChE、ACS、BMES)，但这些规划往往是分散的，不包括干细胞生物学或干细胞工程的多个方面的世界领导者的出席。在这三种情况下，大型会议的形式也没有促进与会者之间同等程度的互动。还有一些规模与国际公务员制度委员会类似的较小规模的干细胞会议，如Keystone研讨会。这些节目的质量非常高，但它们的重点更多地放在干细胞和发育生物学领域，仅限于没有工程学内容。最后，也有一些小规模的营利性会议，成功地吸收了学术界和工业界的元素，但这些会议往往没有生物和工程领域的领军人物参加。此外，我们相信，我们在许多层面上强调干细胞生物学和工程学的整合是新的和独特的，这一主题反映在我们的科学计划中。在这项申请中，我们寻求对第三届ICSCE的支持，组织者打算继续每两年举行一次会议。第三次会议的主题是？设计细胞疗法？，这次会议的目的是提供一个场所：1.为涵盖干细胞工程这一新兴领域的不同领域的领先干细胞生物学和工程研究人员的科学陈述。学术和行业研究人员之间的互动，他们对干细胞工程的技术方面和商业化潜力带来了不同的方法和视角。积极参与干细胞生物学和生物工程领域的博士后和博士后培训，他们代表着干细胞生物学和工程的未来。将生物学家、内科科学家和工程师聚集在一起，在合作的气氛中讨论他们的学科和方法，并推动新的研究，以克服限制基于干细胞的技术发展的障碍。改善干细胞工程领域接触不同群体的科学家的机会，包括缺乏干细胞经验的生物工程师以及妇女和代表性不足的群体。为了理解干细胞工程领域日益全球化的本质，并确定国际合作如何促进该领域的发展。会议的范围、主题和目标正好属于NSF的使命，NSF越来越致力于将物理和工程科学与生命科学相结合，鼓励多学科领域的研究和开发，教育下一代年轻研究人员，并帮助增加科学和工程领域劳动力的多样性。如果这种应用成功，将通过为研究生/博士后助理参与者提供部分支持，直接影响目标3-6，通过为通常分开的顶尖科学家和工程师之间的互动提供一个论坛，以激发可能有利于经济和健康相关活动的新想法。NSF的资金将专门用于支持年轻的研究人员和研究生。会议注意增加妇女和代表不足的少数群体在组织委员会和发言者以及与会者中的人数。会议结束后，会议材料将在公共网站上提供。

1232544/ Cortes-CamineroThis proposal is to help support "The Third International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering" to be held April 29 through Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, WA. The conference chairs are Sean Palecek and Charles Murray.The field of stem cells has rapidly emerged as an important multidisciplinary area of research in biology, bioengineering, and medicine. There are no forums, however, whose primary goal is to bring together biologists, physician-scientists and engineers to discuss ways in which their disciplines can collaborate to find novel solutions to problems that are limiting the development of new technologies and therapies. In response to this need, SBE in collaboration with AIChE is organizing and instituting the Third International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering (ICSCE).The Third ICSCE will be the third in a series of ICSCE meetings, held every two years, designed to bring together researchers from academia and industry that are using quantitative approaches and novel technology development to advance the understanding and application of stem cell biology and engineering. The ICSCE meeting series will serve to promote, shape, and refine the definition of the Stem Cell Engineering field. Approximately 200 people are expected to attend.Intellectual Merit There is currently no other meeting that provides a forum for the emerging field of Stem Cell Engineering. Although engineers attend international meetings such as the International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting, there is no direct forum for interactions between stem cell engineers and stem cell biologists at this or similar events. The fact that the ISSCR has agreed to co-organize this event is a testament to the recognition of the importance for balanced interactions between these two communities.From the bioengineering side, although there are other conferences that have some programming in stem cell engineering (AIChE, ACS, BMES), this programming is often diffuse and does not include the presence of world leaders in multiple facets of stem cell biology or stem cell engineering. In these three cases, the format of the large meetings also does not foster the same level of interaction among participants. There are also smaller meetings on stem cells, of similar size to ICSCE, such as Keystone Symposia. These have very high quality programming, but their focus has been more in the area of stem cell and developmental biology, with limited to no engineering content. Finally, there are also small scale, for-profit conferences that successfully draw elements from academia and industry, but these are often not attended by leading figures from biology and engineering.Broader Impact None of the organizations cited above caters to the specific aims of the ICSCE. Furthermore, we believe that our emphasis on the integration of stem cell biology and engineering at many levels is new and unique, and this theme is reflected throughout our scientific program. Support is sought for the Third ICSCE in this application, and the organizers intend for this conference to continue to be held every two years.The Theme of this third meeting is ?Designing Cellular Therapies?, and the Aims of this conference are to provide a venue:1. For scientific presentations from a diverse group of leading stem cell biology and engineeringresearchers who cover the breadth of the emerging field of Stem Cell Engineering.2. For interactions between academic and industry researchers, who bring different approaches and perspectives to the technical aspects and commercialization potential of Stem Cell Engineering.3. For active participation by Ph.D. students and postdoctoral trainees in stem cell biology andbioengineering fields, who represent the future of stem cell biology and engineering.4. For bringing biologists, physician-scientists and engineers together in an collaborative atmosphere to discuss their disciplines and approaches, and to motivate new research that overcomes barriers limiting the development of stem cell-based technologies.5. For improving the access of the field of Stem Cell Engineering to a diverse group of scientists,including bioengineers with little stem cell experience and women and underrepresented groups.6. For understanding the increasingly global nature of the field of Stem Cell Engineering and identifying how international collaborations can facilitate the advancement of this field.The scope, theme, and aims of the meeting fall squarely within the mission of the NSF, which has been increasingly committed to integrating the physical and engineering sciences with the life sciences, encouraging research and development in multidisciplinary areas, educating the next generation of young researchers, and helping increase the diversity of the workforce in science and engineering.This application, if successful, will directly impact Aims 3-6, by providing partial support for graduate student/postdoctoral associate participants, and by providing a forum for the interactions between normally separated leading scientists and engineers to stimulate new ideas that could benefit economic and health-related activity.Funding from NSF would go specifically to support young investigators and graduate students. Attention was paid to increase numbers of women and underrepresented minorities on the organizing committee, and as speakers, as well as among attendees. Conference materials will be available on a public web site after the conference.