2012 Lasers in Medicine and Biology - Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本资金申请用于支持参加戈登医学和生物学激光研究会议（GRC-LMB）的参与者的注册费和/或差旅费，包括但不限于女性、研究生、博士后研究员和其他代表性不足的群体，该会议将于2012年7月22日至27日在新罕布什尔州Holderness学校举行。该会议始于1965年，自20世纪70年代以来每两年举办一次，是医学和生物学中光学和激光应用创造性研究的首要科学会议之一。本次会议的目的是将来自学术界、医院和诊所、国家实验室和行业的研究人员聚集在一起，共同研究新的光学技术如何为医疗实践、生物学理解和药物开发带来进步。生物医学光学是光的科学和工程，在医学和生物学中有应用。会议的目标是鼓励来自学术实验室、临床研究、商业企业和国家实验室的生物医学光学研究人员之间的科学交流，以批判性地评估我们领域的现状并为未来设定目标。对这次会议的支持将有助于我们加强和更新国际生物医学光学界的能力，通过促进高级和初级研究人员与非正式环境中代表性不足群体的研究人员之间的个人层面的互动，同时确保鼓励多样性和家庭住宿。会议安排了一批来自基础研究、应用技术开发和医学研究人员的演讲者。医学博士作为演讲者的参与在今年有所增加，但生物医学技术和应用的根本性突破仍然是主要焦点。GRC每年都会收集会议的调查分析，在过去的2010年会议中，LMB会议在当年所有GRC会议中获得了最高的满意度排名（94%的满意度）。基于这个高排名和会议的长寿，加上我们建议的演讲者名单，我们希望这将是我们生物医学光学社区最好的场所之一。根据这里的要求，为最大限度地提高女性、博士后和研究生的参与提供资金，是一个确保在向这些代表性不足的群体提供机会时实现最大公平的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This funding application is to support the registration fee and/or travel costs of participants including but not limited to women, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and other underrepresented groups to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology (GRC-LMB), which will be held on July 22- 27, 2012 at the Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire. This conference started in 1965, and since the 1970s has run every second year, as one of the premiere scientific meetings for creative research into optics and laser use in medicine and biology. The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers from academia, hospitals and clinics, national laboratories, and industries to jointly examine how new optical technologies can bring progresses to medical practices, biological understandings, and pharmaceutical development. Biomedical optics is the science and engineering of light with applications in medicine and biology. The conference goals are to encourage scientific exchange between biomedical optics researchers from academic labs, clinical research, commercial enterprises and national laboratories, to critically assess the state of our field and to set goals for the future. The support for this meeting will contribute to our ability to strengthen and renew the international biomedical optics community by promoting a personal level of interaction between senior and junior researchers and those from under-represented groups in an informal environment, while ensuring that diversity and family accommodation is encouraged. The meeting has a planned set of speakers with good participation from basic research, applied technology development, and medical researchers. The participation of MDs as speakers is increased in this year, and yet fundamental breakthroughs in biomedical technology and applications are still a primary focus. Survey analysis of the conferences are collected each year by the GRC and in the past conference 2010, this LMB conference received the highest satisfaction ranking of all GRC conferences that year (94% satisfaction). Based upon this high ranking, and the longevity of the conference, together with our proposed speaker list, we expect this will be one of the best venues for our biomedical optics community. Funding to maximize female, post doctoral fellow and graduate student participation, as requested here is an opportunity to ensure that maximum equity is achieved in providing access to these under-represented groups. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology (GRC-LMB) is held every 2 years to provide one of the premiere venues for discussion of research ideas in biomedical optics. The presentations and discussion focus on innovative technologies which can transform diagnosis or therapy in areas such as cardiology, oncology and ophthalmology.