Support for Trainees and Independent Junior Investigators at BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference 2021; Palm Springs, California; 3-7 January 2021

为 2021 年 BMES 细胞和分子生物工程会议的学员和独立初级研究员提供支持；

• 批准号: 2031803
• 负责人: Brenton Hoffman
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: Biomedical Engineering Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031803&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Trainees; Independent; Junior; Investigators

This award will support participation and provide travel stipends for students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent junior investigators (Rising Stars) for the 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)-Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Conference; Palm Springs, California; 3-7 January 2021. The meeting is intended to integrate the disparate fields of protein engineering and microphysiological systems to transform our abilities to model, probe, and understand pathophysiology as well as translate new discoveries in ways that ultimately benefit human health. There are two aims associated with this meeting: (1) Promote adoption of new technologies and strategies to achieve transformative discoveries and (2) Facilitate interaction of junior investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students with leaders in these burgeoning sub-fields of CMBE. Twelve trainees will be selected by the organizing committee to receive Student/Fellow Awards and present short talks, which will be integrated into the themed sessions. In addition, eight diverse early-career independent faculty investigators will be selected for the special 'Rising Star' awards and session, which will take place on the first day of the meeting, to showcase their work.The theme of the 2021 Conference will be “Lighting and Leading the Way: Molecular Tools in Multicellular Systems’’. The scientific goals are to 1) catalyze the development of new molecular-scale tools for probing and manipulating cell behavior, 2) ease the transition of these cutting edge approaches for use in complex multicellular systems that more accurately model physiological and pathological processes, and 3) enable the translation of the these advancements in ways that can ultimately benefit human health, such as improved drug screening systems and cellular theranostics that sense and respond to environmental cues found in disease states. The conference will introduce and integrate a diverse group of engineers and basic scientists possessing clinical and/or entrepreneurial experience. Invited speakers and keynotes will discuss how they bridge the gap between fundamental research and translation in their specific fields. The CMBE field is experiencing exponential growth, with the subfields of protein engineering and microphysiological systems development being significant drivers. The 2021 Conference will bring together leaders in the field of biology, medicine, and engineering to address how these cutting-edge approaches can be integrated and applied innovatively in CMBE research and education. This award is co-funded by the Systems and Synthetic Biology cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, among others.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.

该奖项将支持参加2021年生物医学工程学会(BMES)-细胞和分子生物工程（CMBE）会议的学生、博士后和独立初级研究人员（新星），并提供旅费；加州棕榈泉；2021年1月3日至7日。会议旨在整合蛋白质工程和微生理系统的不同领域，以改变我们的能力来建模，探测和理解病理生理学，以及以最终有益于人类健康的方式转化新发现。本次会议有两个目的：(1)促进采用新技术和新策略来实现变革性的发现；(2)促进初级研究人员、博士后和研究生与这些新兴的CMBE子领域的领导者之间的互动。组委会将选出12名学员，颁发学生/研究员奖，并发表简短的演讲，这些演讲将融入主题会议。此外，将选出8位不同的早期职业独立教师调查员参加特别的“新星”奖和会议，该会议将在会议的第一天举行，以展示他们的工作。2021年会议的主题将是“照亮和引领道路：多细胞系统中的分子工具”。科学目标是1)催化用于探测和操纵细胞行为的新分子尺度工具的发展，2)简化这些尖端方法的过渡，用于更准确地模拟生理和病理过程的复杂多细胞系统，以及3)使这些进步能够以最终有益于人类健康的方式转化。例如，改进的药物筛选系统和细胞疗法，可以感知和响应疾病状态中发现的环境线索。会议将介绍和整合具有临床和/或创业经验的不同工程师和基础科学家群体。受邀的演讲者和主题演讲将讨论他们如何在各自领域弥合基础研究和翻译之间的差距。在蛋白质工程和微生理系统发展的推动下，CMBE领域正经历着指数级的增长。2021年的会议将汇集生物学、医学和工程领域的领导者，讨论如何在CMBE研究和教育中创新地整合和应用这些前沿方法。该奖项由分子和细胞生物科学部的系统和合成生物学集群等共同资助。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。