Participation of Bioengineering Graduate Students in International Conference on Artificial Organs, June 29-July 1, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island

9706812 Galletti要求部分支持将于1997年6月29日至7月1日在RI普罗维登斯举行的国际人工器官学会会议。基金会提供的经费将用于最多10名研究生的旅费和会议费用支助。预计这次会议将帮助美国应对人工内脏器官发展中的新挑战，即需要为预期使用时间越来越长的设备建立强大的工程设计基础。需要在美国学术界维持生物工程创新，并将这些知识转移到美国工业，用于与医疗设备相关的研发。必须同时考虑在分配保健资源方面的技术、经济和伦理问题。需要吸引妇女和代表性不足的少数民族进入一个已经雇用了大量生物工程毕业生的领域。预计参加会议的各团体之间将发展新的创新和积极的互动。获得国家科学基金资助的青年科学家将有绝佳的机会亲自参与这种互动；计划了一个特别的会议，学生可以与他们的同龄人见面。会议报告的摘要将发表在国际人工器官学会的官方期刊《人工器官》的定期期刊《摘要卷》中。

9706812 Galletti Partial support is requested for the International Society for Artificial Organs conference to be held June 29-July 1, 1997 in Providence, RI. Funding from the Foundation would be used for travel and conference fee support for up to ten graduate students. The meeting is expected to help the U.S. meet new challenges in the development of artificial internal organs, viz. The need to establish a strong engineering design basis for devices expected to perform for increasingly longer periods of time. The need to sustain bioengineering innovation in the U.S. academic community and to transfer that knowledge to American industry for R & D related to medical devices. The need to consider simultaneously technological, economic and ethical issues in the distribution of health care resources. The need to attract women and under-represented minorities to a field which already employs a large number of bioengineering graduates. It is expected that new innovative and proactive interactions will develop among the groups participating in the meeting. The young scientists to be supported by NSF funds will have an excellent opportunity themselves to engage in such interactions; a special session is planned wherein the students can meet with their peers. Abstracts of presentations at the meeting are to published in an Abstract Volume that will constitute a regular issue of Artificial Organs, the official journal of the International Society for Artificial Organs.