Conference: Symposium Support for the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting Biomaterials Area: Broadening Participation in Biomaterials

非技术描述：该奖项将支持2022年美国化学工程师学会(AIChE)年会上的一个专题讨论会，题为“生物材料领域8B：扩大对生物材料的参与”。该活动将于2022年11月13日至18日在亚利桑那州凤凰城的凤凰城会议中心举行。AIChE 8B生物材料领域为学术界和工业界的研究人员提供了一个论坛，分享与活的生物元素相结合的材料的设计、合成和工程方面的最新进展。这一研究领域在组织工程、药物输送、伤口愈合和疾病建模方面都有应用。AIChE年会的这一区域将举办约120场口头和海报演讲，来自研究生、博士后学者、教职员工和行业科学家。在此背景下，NSF基金将支持一个新的研究论坛的发展，以促进生物材料研究的卓越，并加强来自小规模团体的本科生的参与。专题讨论会将在全体会议上主办一次非正式会议，以制定今后扩大各级参与的倡议。这些努力与AIChE最近通过的理想(包容、多样性、公平、反种族主义和学习)倡议相一致。该奖项将支持将于2022年11月13日至18日在亚利桑那州凤凰城的菲尼克斯会议中心举行的2022年美国化学工程师学会(AIChE)年会上的一个专题讨论会，题为“生物材料领域8B：扩大对生物材料的参与”。年会的目标是：1)交流生物材料设计和性能的最新进展；2)为生物材料研究人员提供一个从化学工程角度联系和交流想法的场所；3)促进研究生和博士后学者分享他们的工作和推进他们的专业目标的机会；以及4)与其他以化学工程为导向的子领域的接口，以提高生物材料研究的科学深度。研究贡献包括用于控制细胞行为、与微生物相互作用、设计新生组织和控制治疗药物释放的生物材料开发。相关的材料平台包括水凝胶、颗粒、宏观平台、聚合物、多肽和仿生学。这些技术领域将促进生物材料研究的进步，用于服务于不同群体的健康应用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Non-Technical Description:This award will support a symposium at the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, entitled “Biomaterials Area 8B: Broadening Participation in Biomaterials”. The event will be held November 13-18, 2022, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The AIChE 8B Biomaterials area serves to provide a forum for researchers from academia and industry to share recent advances on the design, synthesis, and engineering of materials that interface with live, biological elements. This research area has applications in tissue engineering, drug delivery, wound healing, and disease modeling. This area of the AIChE Annual meeting will host approximately 120 oral and poster presentations, from a combination of graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, faculty, and industry scientists. In this context, NSF funds will support the development of a new research forum to promote excellence in biomaterials research and enhance participation of undergraduate students from minoritized groups. The symposium will host an informal meeting at the full conference to develop future initiatives for broadening participation at all levels. These efforts align with the IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Learning) initiative recently adopted by AIChE. Technical Description:This award will support a symposium at the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, entitled “Biomaterials Area 8B: Broadening Participation in Biomaterials,” to be November 13-18, 2022, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The objectives of the annual meeting are to: 1) communicate current and emerging progress in biomaterials design and properties, 2) provide a venue for biomaterials researchers to connect and exchange ideas from a chemical engineering perspective, 3) promote opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to share their work and advance their professional goals, and 4) interface with other chemical engineering-oriented subfields to enhance the scientific depth of biomaterials research. Research contributions include biomaterials development for controlling cell behavior, interacting with microbes, engineering nascent tissues, and controlling release of therapeutics. Relevant material platforms include hydrogels, particles, macroscopic platforms, polymers, peptides, and biomimetics. These technical areas will foster advances in biomaterials research for applications in health that serve diverse groups.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.