2012 Bioinspired Materials Gordon Research Conference

2012仿生材料戈登研究会议

• 批准号: 8318517
• 负责人: Ashutosh Chilkoti
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8318517
• 关键词: Address; Area; Biocompatible Materials; Biomedical Engineering; Characteristics; Communities; Drug Delivery Systems; Engineering; Explosion; Faculty; Fertilization; Foundations; Gender; Goals; Growth; Hour; Nature; North Carolina; Oral; Process; Property; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Switzerland; System; Time; Tissue Engineering; Twin Multiple Birth; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; college; design; dissemination research; fundamental research; interest; posters; programs; self assembly; social; stem; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this R13 Proposal to the NIH is to seek support for the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Bioinspired Materials to be held June 24-29, 2012 in Davidson College, North Carolina, USA. The emerging, interdisciplinary field of Bioinspired Materials focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of the synthesis, directed self-assembly and hierarchical organization of natural occurring materials, and uses this understanding to engineer new "bioinspired" artificial materials for diverse applications. This conference, co-chaired by Ashutosh Chilkoti (Duke University) and Jeffrey Hubbell (EPFL, Switzerland) was born from the twin realizations that: (1) there is an explosion of research in the field of Bioinspired Materials; and yet (2) there is no single venue for the dissemination of research in this field. The inaugural GRC on Bioinspired Materials seeks to capture the excitement of this burgeoning field by a cutting-edge scientific program and roster of distinguished invited speakers and discussion leaders who will address the key issues in the field. The impact of this GRC is that it will promote cross-disciplinary fertilization of new ideasin this emerging field and will create a cohesive community by promoting interaction between young scientists, underrepresented minority scientists, and junior faculty with prominent senior investigators. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The GRC on Bioinspired Materials will provide a forum for the discussion of "bioinspired" materials and materials systems: these are artificial materials whose design, synthesis and processing is inspired by the sophisticated materials found in Nature. Developing a better understanding of how Nature designs materials is important because it enables scientists to design new materials with unprecedented properties with applications in biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.

描述（由申请人提供）：向 NIH 提交的 R13 提案的目的是为将于 2012 年 6 月 24 日至 29 日在美国北卡罗来纳州戴维森学院举行的首届戈登仿生材料研究会议寻求支持。仿生材料这一新兴的跨学科领域专注于发展对天然材料的合成、定向自组装和分层组织的基本理解，并利用这种理解来设计用于各种应用的新型“仿生”人造材料。本次会议由 Ashutosh Chilkoti（杜克大学）和 Jeffrey Hubbell（瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院）联合主持，源于以下双重认识：(1) 仿生材料领域的研究出现爆炸式增长；然而 (2) 没有一个单一的场所来传播这一领域的研究成果。首届仿生材料 GRC 旨在通过尖端科学计划以及将解决该领域关键问题的杰出受邀演讲者和讨论领袖名单来捕捉这一新兴领域的兴奋点。该 GRC 的影响在于，它将促进这一新兴领域新思想的跨学科融合，并通过促进年轻科学家、代表性不足的少数族裔科学家以及初级教师与杰出高级研究人员之间的互动，创建一个有凝聚力的社区。 公共健康相关性：仿生材料 GRC 将为讨论“仿生”材料和材料系统提供一个论坛：这些是人造材料，其设计、合成和加工的灵感来自于自然界中发现的复杂材料。更好地了解自然如何设计材料非常重要，因为它使科学家能够设计出具有前所未有的特性的新材料，并应用于生物材料、组织工程和药物输送。