Conference: 2023 AfroBiotech Conference

2023年非洲生物科技大会将于2023年10月22日至24日举行。会议突出了非裔美国人在生物技术方面的成就，激励了新一代多样化的生物技术专业人员，并确定、交流和探索了生物技术各个方面的当前进展。这个论坛将来自美国各地的非裔美国科学人才组织在一个单一的活动中，旨在使生物技术行业能够雇佣不同的专业人员，激励其他科学会议的组织者邀请不同的演讲者，并激励下一代不同的学生和学者加入这个社区。会议提供了科学报告、海报、网络、扩展讨论和报告的论坛，包括职业生涯早期的研究人员、博士后助理和研究生。生物技术仍然是一个快速发展的领域，确保创新是公平的，并为所有人服务是至关重要的。防止历史上服务不足的社区不断被边缘化的一个有效方法是增强包容性劳动力的能力，使不同的个人经历和观点为技术开发和应用提供信息。工具继续提高效率和准确性；新的公司正在利用生物技术来解决治疗、卫生和农业方面的挑战；政府对生物技术和生物产业的资助都使现在成为社区成员参与和合作的重要时刻，尽可能快速、安全和有效地推动技术向前发展。AFroBiotech大会将为非裔美国生物工程师建立一个论坛，使其有组织地关注这一日益增长的机会，同时讨论与生物工程相关的科学领域的进展和前景。这次会议的议程多种多样，包括早期和博士后研究人员以及研究生。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。

The 2023 AfroBiotech Conference will be held October 22-24, 2023. The conference highlights the achievements of African Americans in biotechnology, inspires a new generation of diverse biotechnology professionals and identifies, communicates, and explores current advancements in various aspects of Biotechnology. This forum organizes African-American scientific talent from across the U.S. at a single event and aims to enable the biotech industry to hire diverse professionals, inspire organizers of other scientific conferences to invite diverse speakers and inspire the next generation of diverse students and scholars to join this community. The conference provides forums for scientific presentations, posters, networking, extended discussions, presentations and is inclusive of early-career researchers, postdoctoral associates and graduate students.Biotechnology continues to be a rapidly developing field, and it is critical to ensure that innovations are equitable and that they serve all people. An effective way to stop ongoing marginalization of historically underserved communities is to empower an inclusive workforce in which diverse personal experiences and perspectives inform technology development and applications. Tools continue to improve efficiency and accuracy; new companies are using biotechnology to solve challenges in therapeutics, health and agriculture; and government funding of biotechnology and bio-based industries all make it an important time for members of the community to engage and collaborate, moving the technology forward as quickly, safely and effectively as possible. The AfroBiotech conference will creates a forum for African American biological engineers to become organized to focus on this growing opportunity and at the same time address advances and prospects in scientific areas pertinent to biological engineering. The conference has a diverse agenda that is inclusive of early-career and postdoctoral researchers as well as graduate students.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.