The 16th US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology: Nanomedicine Focusing on Single Cell Level and Sensors Related to Human Cognition and Brain Research

第16届美韩纳米技术论坛：纳米医学聚焦单细胞水平和与人类认知和大脑研究相关的传感器

• 批准号: 1934241
• 负责人: Myung Jhon
• 金额: $ 4.66万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1934241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 16th; US; Korea; Forum; Nanotechnology

Since 2003, the Forum on Nanotechnology Forum between U.S. and Korea has been held at alternating countries. The forum focuses on enhancing research collaboration in the field of nanotechnology conversion among scientists and engineers from both countries. Specifically, a joint forum facilitates networking between the research communities and agencies of both countries, enabling each side to exchange information and explore opportunities for research collaboration. This year the topics are nanomedicine focusing on single-cell level and sensors related to human cognition and brain research. The forum includes 8 senior presenters and 7 early-career presenters from U.S. and roughly equal number of Korean presenters will also participate. Organizing committee of this forum strives to place emphasis on diversity. This forum actively encourages partnerships in nanotechnology for breakthroughs in various topics, in addition to strengthening achievements and assessing the progress on recommendation made during the previous forums. All of the forum proceedings and findings are available on Carnegie Mellon's website for broad audiences. The contribution of this proposed forum is its ability to bring together a bi-national community of expert researchers and innovators who are working on the leading edge of nanomedicine focusing on single cell level and sensors related to human cognition. This forum will stimulate efforts to promote the above two areas by fully utilizing nanotechnology convergence to bio-information-cognitive technology. The outcome of this forum will lead to milestone and vigorous research collaboration of both countries where nanotechnology convergence will generate a great impact. As we enter the 4th industrial revolution, which is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, the rapid increase in the enormous amount of data processed and stored led us to a need for an emerging field of technologies including human cognition and nanomedicine. To fully explore these technologies, nanotechnology convergence with bio-information-cognitive methods play a critical role. The following two topics will be scrutinized during this 16th Forum. (a) Nanomedicine focusing on single cell level: Current challenges in nanomedicine area involve i) long-term fate for newly developed materials (distribution in space and time) and how to integrate already-developed nano-materials into application synergistically, ii) the niche of nanomaterials, iii)changing the general paradigm of medical practice, iv) precisely monitoring patients for preventive medicine, v) personalized medicine, vi) batch-to-batch consistency validation, vii) need for safer biomaterial, and viii) ability to target moving parts. Due to the importance of single-cell nanomedicine, this topic will be examined during the consecutive forums. (B) Sensors related to human cognition and brain research: Key technical components of human performance modification (HPM) are the nanosensors. Novel nanosensors that are capable of new functions allowing an era in HPM will be investigated. This technology includes an image processing unit and an artificial intelligence unit to name a few. With added sensory inputs and augmented sensors, ultimately HPM can drastically enhance human performance on a daily basis. The convergence of nanotechnology is likely to result in the development of novel sensor technologies that can advance in HPM including vision, audition, gustation, olfaction, and somatosensation.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.

自2003年以来，美国和韩国之间的纳米技术论坛一直在交替的国家举行。该论坛的重点是加强两国科学家和工程师在纳米技术转换领域的研究合作。具体而言，联合论坛促进了两国研究界和机构之间的网络联系，使双方能够交流信息并探索研究合作的机会。今年的主题是纳米医学，专注于单细胞水平和与人类认知和大脑研究相关的传感器。本次论坛包括来自美国的8名资深主持人和7名早期职业主持人，以及大致相同数量的韩国主持人也将参加。本届论坛组委会力求强调多样性。该论坛积极鼓励在纳米技术方面建立伙伴关系，以便在各种主题上取得突破，此外还加强成就并评估在以前论坛期间提出的建议的进展情况。所有论坛的会议记录和调查结果都可以在卡内基梅隆大学的网站上找到。这个拟议论坛的贡献是它能够汇集一个由专家研究人员和创新者组成的两国社区，他们致力于纳米医学的前沿，专注于单细胞水平和与人类认知相关的传感器。本次论坛将通过充分利用纳米技术与生物信息认知技术的融合，促进上述两个领域的努力。本次论坛的成果将导致两国在纳米技术融合将产生巨大影响的里程碑和积极的研究合作。随着我们进入第四次工业革命，其特征是技术融合，模糊了物理，数字和生物领域之间的界限，处理和存储的大量数据的快速增加使我们需要一个新兴的技术领域，包括人类认知和纳米医学。为了充分探索这些技术，纳米技术与生物信息认知方法的融合起着至关重要的作用。以下两个主题将在第16届论坛期间进行讨论。(a)专注于单细胞水平的纳米医学：纳米医学领域目前的挑战涉及i）新开发材料的长期命运（空间和时间分布）以及如何将已经开发的纳米材料协同应用，ii）纳米材料的利基，iii）改变医疗实践的一般范式，iv）精确监测患者的预防医学，v）个性化医疗，vi）批次间一致性验证，vii）需要更安全的生物材料，以及viii）针对移动部件的能力。由于单细胞纳米医学的重要性，该主题将在连续的论坛上进行讨论。(B)与人类认知和大脑研究相关的传感器：人类行为改进（HPM）的关键技术组件是纳米传感器。将研究能够实现新功能的新型纳米传感器，从而开创HPM时代。该技术包括图像处理单元和人工智能单元，仅举几例。通过增加感官输入和增强传感器，最终HPM可以大大提高人类日常表现。纳米技术的融合可能会导致新的传感器技术的发展，可以在HPM，包括视觉，听觉，味觉，嗅觉，和somatosensory.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。