2019 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

生物医学工程学会（BMES）年会将于2019年10月16日至19日在宾夕法尼亚州费城举行，预计参会人数将超过4500人。会议将以“连接社区：本地和全球生物工程”为主题，举办19场专题讨论。会议的目标是鼓励创新学习，促进生物医学工程社区中代表性不足的人群的包容，以及支持学术界和工业界研究的机会。NSF基金将支持网络和小组互动，并将促进生物医学工程教育机会和成功途径的知识增长。这笔拨款为几个竞争性旅行资助项目以及针对代表性不足的群体和那些可能无法参加会议的群体的专业发展活动提供资金。竞争性旅行资助项目包括：12个学生研究奖，40个职业发展奖，用于研究生、博士后、早期职业教师和BME中代表性不足人群的专业人员，包括初级教师；和20名对生物医学工程感兴趣的NSBE成员。此外，为来自可能没有STEM课程的学校的学生提供的高中博览会项目也需要资金。最后，NSF的资金将用于支持15名有监护人的高中生参加这次活动。在四天的时间里，2019年的会议将有19个项目专题，约950个口头报告和2000多份海报报告。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 16-19, 2019, and anticipating over 4,500 participants. The meeting will feature 19 Program Tracks with the theme "Connecting Communities: Bioengineering Locally and Globally". The goal of the meeting is to encourage innovative learning that promotes inclusion from underrepresented populations within the biomedical engineering community, and opportunities that support research in both academia and industry. NSF funds will support networking and small group interactions and will promote increased knowledge of educational opportunities and pathways to success in biomedical engineering.This grant provides funding for several competitive travel grant programs as well as professional development activities targeted at underrepresented groups and those that may not otherwise be able to participate in the conference. The competitive travel grant programs include: 12 students research awards, 40 career development awards for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early career faculty and professionals from underrepresented populations in BME, including junior faculty; and 20 NSBE members interested in biomedical engineering. Additionally, funding is required for a High School Expo program for students from schools that might not have a STEM curriculum. Finally, funding from NSF will be used to support 15 high school students with chaperones in this activity. Over four days, the 2019 meeting will feature 19 Program Tracks with approximately 950 oral presentations and more than 2,000 poster presentations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.