Workshop on Engineering Innovation for Health; Houston, Texas; 2024

该补助金将支持早期职业研究人员参加2024年在德克萨斯州休斯顿举行的健康工程创新研讨会。 随着分子成像、基因组编辑和人工智能等新技术的发展，医学领域正处于范式转变的边缘，以前所未有的工程驱动的疾病诊断治疗精度。为了进一步发展健康工程创新，更好地培养该领域的下一代领导者，本次研讨会将汇集国内和国际学术专家，行业从业者和临床医生，讨论发展生物技术的前沿研究和前所未有的机会，彻底改变医学和医疗保健，阐明这一跨学科领域的重大问题和挑战，并确定未来的研究方向，这将大大有利于我们的社会。预计这次研讨会将有助于开发新的想法和变革性的研究项目，将工程和生命科学相结合，解决基本的生物学问题，并解决显著改善人类健康的生物医学问题。 这笔赠款的具体目标是支持20名初级研究人员，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数民族，参加将于2024年在德克萨斯州休斯顿举行的健康工程创新研讨会。 这个为期2天的研讨会将涵盖广泛的主题，重点关注用于更好的疾病诊断和治疗的革命性技术。本次研讨会的演讲和讨论将促进我们对进一步开发健康创新技术的潜在科学和技术问题和挑战的理解，并促进跨学科研究，这些研究可能导致工程创新在医学上的更广泛应用，从革命性的疾病治疗技术，到先进的分子成像方法，再到新的基于计算和人工智能的方法，到生物传感和疾病诊断的新设备，到使用合成生物学和机械生物学的新方法。研讨会的结果将广泛传播，以提高科学和技术的理解和影响。这个奖项反映了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。

This grant will support early-career investigator participation at a workshop on Engineering Innovation for Health in Houston, Texas, in 2024. With recent development of new technologies including molecular imaging, genome editing and artificial intelligence, the field of medicine is on the verge of a paradigm shift to have unprecedented engineering-driven precision in disease diagnosis treatment. To further develop engineering innovation for health, and better train the next-generation of leaders in this field, this workshop will bring together national and international academic experts, industry practitioners, and clinicians to discuss the cutting-edge research in developing biotechnologies and the unprecedented opportunities to revolutionize medicine and healthcare, elucidate major issues and challenges in this interdisciplinary field, and identify future research directions that will significantly benefit our society. It is expected that this workshop will help develop novel ideas and transformative research projects that integrate engineering and life sciences, address fundamental biological issues, and solve biomedical problems that significantly improve human health. The specific objective of this grant is to support the travel of 20 junior investigators, especially females and underrepresented minorities, to attend the Engineering Innovation for Health Workshop, to be held in 2024 in Houston, Texas. This 2-day workshop will cover a broad range of topics, with a strong focus on revolutionary technologies for better disease diagnosis and therapies. The presentations and discussions at this Workshop will advance our understanding of the underlying scientific and technological issues and challenges in further developing innovative technologies for health, and facilitating interdisciplinary studies that may lead to a broader range of applications of engineering innovation to medicine, from revolutionary technologies for disease therapies, to advanced molecular imaging methods, to new computational and AI based approaches, to new devices for biosensing and disease diagnostics, to new methods using synthetic biology and mechanobiology. The results of the workshop will be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding and impact.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.