2014 Lasers in Medicine and Biology Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：医学和生物学中的激光戈登研究会议（LMB-GRC）在激励和教育当前和未来几代跨学科科学家和工程师方面有着悠久而丰富的历史。该会议始于1965年，自20世纪70年代以来，每隔一年举行一次。本次会议被认为是促进光学、光学成像、激光和激光治疗及其在医学和生物学中的集体应用方面的创造性研究和思想的首要会议之一。本次科学会议的主要目标是将来自学术界、医院和医疗诊所、国家实验室和工业界的研究人员聚集在一起，了解和推进光和激光在医学科学和治疗中的应用，以及基础生物学发现。会议的目标是鼓励来自这些不同领域的研究人员之间的科学交流，并批判性地和集体地讨论该领域的现状及其未来的发展方向。本次会议资金申请是为了支持会议参与者的注册费和/或差旅费，包括但不限于女性、研究生、博士后研究员，以及其中代表性不足的群体，以便他们可以参加下一届LMB-GRC，将于2014年7月13日至18日在新罕布什尔州Holderness学校举行。对这次会议的支持将使我们能够建立新的国内和国际合作，并加强和更新高级研究人员，初级教师和研究生之间的智力联系。我们2014年会议的副主题是“从基础科学发现到转化应用”，认识和强调基础科学的重要作用，并建立将这些科学发现转化为实际应用和具有重大影响的应用的途径。这次特别会议的关键是医学博士以及基于行业的科学家和工程师的跨学科参与，为当前需要解决的挑战提供一个重要的视角。2012年LMB-GRC的调查分析显示，其绩效评分为93%，被评为“高性能”，在所有grc中排名最高。我们期望这次会议将继续保持传统，成为我们的生物光子学，生物医学光学和生物医学光学成像社区的最佳场所之一。为支持女性、博士后和研究生科学家和工程师的参与所要求的资金无疑将确保会议的成功和富有成效，并为这些代表性不足的群体提供奠定新职业基础的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Lasers in Medicine and Biology Gordon Research Conference (LMB-GRC) has a long and rich history of inspiring and educating current and future generations of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers. This conference started in 1965, and since the 1970s, it has been held every-other-year. This conference is respected as one of the premiere meetings for fostering creative research and ideas in optics, optical imaging, lasers, and laser therapy, and their collective use in medicine and biology. The primary objective of this scientific conference is to bring together researchers from academia, hospitals and medical clinics, national laboratories, and industry to understand and advance the use of light and lasers in medical science and therapy, as well as fundamental biological discovery. The conference goals are to encourage scientific exchange between researchers from these diverse areas, and to critically and collectively address the current state of the field, and whereit is headed in the future. This conference funding application is to support the registration fees and/or travel costs of conference participants including but not limited to women, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and among these, under-represented groups, so that they may attend the next LMB-GRC, to be held July 13-18, 2014 at the Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire. The support for this meeting will enable us to build new national and international collaborations, as well as strengthen and renew the intellectual connections between senior-level investigators, junior faculty, and graduate students. The sub-theme for our 2014 conference is "From Basic Science Discovery to Translational Applications", recognizing and highlighting the important role for basic fundamental science, as well as establishing paths to translate these scientific discoveries into practical applications and use with significant impact. Critical to this particular meeting is the interdisciplinary participation of MDs as well a industry-based scientists and engineers, providing an important perspective on current challenges to be addressed. Survey analysis from the 2012 LMB-GRC showed a performance rating of 93%, which was classified as "High-Performing", and rated among the highest of all GRCs. We expect that this conference will continue to uphold the tradition of being one of the best venues for our biophotonics, biomedical optics, and biomedical optical imaging community. The requested funding to support the participation of women, post-doctoral, and graduate student scientists and engineers will undoubtedly ensure a successful and productive meeting, and provide opportunities that will form the foundation of new careers for these under-represented groups.