Workshop: Systems and Synthetic Biology for Designing Rational Cancer Immunotherapies; October 6-8, 2016, Tysons Corner, Virginia

研讨会：用于设计合理的癌症免疫疗法的系统和合成生物学要提高对癌症生物学的基本认识，以制定一项突破性的癌症治疗的综合战略，需要该领域采取跨学科的行动方针。这次研讨会将提供一个平台，让来自不同科学、工程和医学领域的与会者讨论最紧迫的需求和潜在的解决方案，以便使用合成生物学领域最新开发的工具合理设计个性化癌症疗法。通过将物理学、合成生物学和系统生物学的基础研究人员和处于各自领域前沿的肿瘤学家聚集在一起，这次研讨会将促进新的合作，从而加快癌症治疗领域的发现和转换的步伐。研讨会的组织者特别努力地纳入了以创造性和不偏不倚的观点而闻名的年轻科学家。还讨论了人口和性别的平衡问题。这是一项值得称赞的努力，为癌症生物学和治疗带来了新的见解和观点。该奖项将资助一个为期两天的研讨会，讨论将合成生物学用于癌症免疫治疗。领先的系统和合成生物学家、物理学家、数学家和癌症免疫学家将齐聚一堂，就如何开发新的方法来重新编程免疫系统以抗击癌症进行集思广益。研讨会将在弗吉尼亚州泰森斯角的凯悦酒店举行，25-30名参与者将于2016年10月6日至8日举行会议。出席者包括来自美国和国际机构的不同群体的科学家、工程师和医生。该奖项由物理学部的生命系统物理学计划以及分子和细胞生物科学部的系统与合成生物学计划和分子生物物理学计划支持。

Title: Workshop: Systems and Synthetic Biology for Designing Rational Cancer ImmunotherapiesAdvancing fundamental understanding of cancer biology necessary to formulate a comprehensive strategy for break-through cancer treatments requires that the field embrace an interdisciplinary course of action. This workshop will provide a platform that would allow participants from various scientific, engineering, and medical fields to discuss the most pressing needs and potential solutions for the rational design of personalized cancer therapies using recently developed tools from the field of synthetic biology. By bringing together basic researchers in physics, synthetic biology, and systems biology and oncologists at the forefront of their respective fields, this workshop will catalyze new collaborations that will speed the pace of discovery and translation in cancer treatment. The workshop organizers have made a particular effort in including younger scientist known for their creative and unbiased perspective. Balance in demographics and gender are addressed as well. This is a laudable effort to bring new insights and perspectives to cancer biology and treatment This award will fund a two-day workshop to discuss the use of synthetic biology to cancer immunotherapy. Leading systems and synthetic biologists, physicists, mathematicians and cancer immunologists will come together to brainstorm on how to develop novel approaches to reprogramming the immune system to fight cancer. The workshop will be held at the Hyatt Hotel at Tysons Corner in Virginia where 25-30 participants will meet on October 6-8, 2016. The attendees include a diverse group of scientists, engineers and physicians from the US and international institutions.This award is supported by the Physics of Living Systems Program in the Division of Physics, and the Systems and Synthetic Biology Program and Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.