Travel Grant: 240th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting - Biosensors and Nanoscale Measurements Symposium. To be Held in Orlando, Florida October, 10-14, 2021

2019冠状病毒病大流行不仅改变了我们如何生活的说法，考验了我们医疗体系的极限，而且还提出了如何为下一次大流行做好准备的重要问题。在COVID-19最严重的时期，由于缺乏快速检测、准确监测疾病传播的能力以及确定谁已经接触过病毒，造成了大量的不确定性（和焦虑），并表明需要简便、廉价和可扩展的传感平台，以帮助解决我们的公共卫生官员提出的最基本的问题。这个NSF奖项的目标是将来自不同领域的各级研究人员（即学生，早期职业和高级研究人员）聚集在一起，展示和讨论与化学/生物传感技术各方面相关的新发展和尖端工具及其转化为实践。特别地，这个NSF奖项支持学生和早期职业研究人员，他们将在一个论坛上曝光，他们可以：(1)与已经将其传感器技术转化为现实世界挑战的研究人员进行交流，(2)为其领域的新老研究人员开展跨学科合作，(3)为早期研究人员/学生提供网络和职业发展机会，(4)加强妇女和其他未被充分代表的群体在该领域的参与。在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的第240届电化学学会（ECS）会议上，一个名为“生物传感器和纳米尺度测量”的专题研讨会将持续四天（2021年10月11日至14日）。第240届ECS会议“生物传感器和纳米尺度测量”研讨会的目标是为学生、初级和高级研究人员提供一个交流科学思想、展示前沿研究的场所，并让参与者接触到各种各样的化学/生物传感主题，包括实用因素和理解为最终用户部署新兴技术的实施挑战。新兴的传感技术将使下一代网络物理系统（CPS）能够改进个性化的健康监测，具有实时传感和学习能力，以及更全面的网络覆盖的互操作性，并使我们更好地为下一次危机做好准备。2019冠状病毒病大流行说明了及时转换的必要性，更重要的是了解“现实世界”的需求，任何传感器技术的集成、采用和实施都比简单地了解传感器转导机制或纯化环境中传感器平台的特征同样重要。研讨会将由来自世界各地的传感器和纳米尺度测量领域的杰出和早期职业研究人员/学员参加，他们将讨论当前和未来的研究方向、研究挑战及其在现实世界中的应用。由于化学/生物传感的跨学科性质，研讨会极大地使每位与会者受益，并将促进这些不同研究人员之间的思想交流。此外，美国国家科学基金会的这项奖励增加了年轻科学家和工程师的参与，否则他们将无法负担得起参加会议和贡献的费用，通过与同事（包括更资深的研究人员）亲自互动来建立自己的职业生涯。对传感器技术的需求至关重要，以确定和监测对人类健康的影响，需要多样化的思维来加速将发生的革命，以迎接下一次大流行的挑战，并推动该领域改善其他社会需求（例如，气候变化、粮食基础设施、整体健康/福祉等）。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 COVID-19 pandemic not only changed the discourse on how we conduct our lives and tested the limits of our healthcare system but it also raised important questions as to how to prepare better for the next pandemic. During the height of the COVID-19, the lack of rapid detection, the ability to accurately monitor the spread of the disease, and determine who had already been exposed to the virus caused a large amount of uncertainty (and anxiety) and demonstrates the needs for facile, inexpensive, and scalable sensing platforms to help address the most rudimentary questions being raised by our public health officials. The objectives of this NSF award are to bring researchers together at all levels (i.e., students, early career, and senior researchers) from diverse fields to present and discuss new development and cutting-edge tools related to all aspects of chemical/biological sensing technology and its translation into practice. In particular, this NSF award supports students and early career researchers, who will be exposed in a forum where they can: (1) intermingle with researchers that have translated their sensor technology along with researchers who are exposed to the 'real-world' challenges, (2) develop collaborations across disciplines for new and established researchers in their field, (3) facilitate networking and career-building opportunities for the early-stage researchers/students, and (4) enhance participation of women and other underrepresented groups in this field. A dedicated symposium entitled, "Biosensors and Nanoscale Measurements" will span four days (October 11-14, 2021) at the 240th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in Orlando, Florida.The objective of "Biosensors and Nanoscale Measurements" symposium at the 240th ECS Meeting is to provide a venue for students, junior, and senior researchers to exchange scientific ideas, present cutting-edge research, and expose participants to a diverse array of chemical/biosensing topics with pragmatic factors and understanding implementation challenges to deploying emerging technologies for end-users. Emerging technologies for sensing will enable the next-generation of cyber-physical systems (CPS) for improved personalized health monitoring, with real-time sensing and learning, as well as interoperability for a more comprehensive network coverage and to better prepare us for the next crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated the need for timely translation and more importantly understanding 'real-world' needs, integration, adoption, and implementation of any sensor technology is as critical than simply understanding a transduction mechanism or characterization of a sensor platform in a purified environment. The Symposium will be attended by both prominent and early career researchers/trainees in sensors and nanoscale measurements from around the world, who will be discussing present and future directions of research, research challenges and its implementation to real-world applications. The Symposium greatly benefits every participant due to the interdisciplinary nature of chemical/biosensing and will foster cross-fertilization of ideas among these diverse group of researchers. Moreover, this NSF award increases participation of young scientists and engineers, who would not otherwise be able to afford to travel to the meeting and contribute, to build their careers by interacting in person with colleagues, including more senior researchers. The demand for sensor technology to determine and monitor the effects on human health is critically important and diverse thinking is needed to accelerate the revolution that will take place to meet the challenges of the next pandemic and in advancing the field for the betterment of other societal needs (e.g., climate change, food infrastructure, overall health/wellbeing, etc.).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.