Travel Reimbursement for Biotransport Workshop Participants

这笔奖励资金将用于支持将于5月6日和7日在马里兰州贝塞斯达举行的关于生物医学系统传输过程的研讨会。大约50名与会者将从美国各地前往参加研讨会。补助金将主要用于偿还这些参与者的旅费。德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校生物医学工程系的Kenneth Diller博士将与加州大学圣地亚哥分校生物工程系的Geert SchmidSchonbein教授共同组织这次研讨会。这笔赔偿金用于支付与补偿和当地处理程序有关的费用。研讨会的目标是将科学家、工程师和政府资助机构聚集在一起，讨论生物运输这一日益重要的技术领域的基本研究需求和机会。生物学和医学中涉及流体力学、热传输和质量传输现象的相互作用及其对细胞和组织的影响在理解疾病的原因和开发新的预防、诊断和治疗方案以改善人类健康方面普遍存在。研讨会将包括一些在这些技术领域的领先研究人员的演讲，并将帮助研究人员和资助机构为未来的研究和教育方向确定改进的重点领域，将更好地将运输过程研究与医疗需求和进步联系起来。这次研讨会的更广泛影响是，将有来自美国各地生物运输和医学界的广泛参与者参与制定和学习未来生物运输研究和应用工作的路线图。这次会议将有许多女性与会者。研讨会将由国立卫生研究院的国家生物医学成像和生物工程研究所共同主办，在这一重要领域建立两个机构之间的新合作，解决基本的生物工程和健康问题。

The award funds will support a Workshop on Transport Processes in Biomedical Systems to be held in Bethesda, Maryland on May 6 and 7. Approximately 50 participants will travel to attend the workshop from throughout the United States. Grant funds will be used primarily to reimburse travel expenses for these participants. Dr. Kenneth Diller of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin will serve as co-organizer of the workshop with Prof. Geert Schmid-Schonbein of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California at San Diego. This award is to cover the expenses associated with the reimbursements and with local processing procedures. The goal of the workshop will be to bring together scientists, engineers, and government funding agencies to discuss basic research needs and opportunities in the increasingly important technology area of biotransport. Interactions involving fluid mechanics, thermal transport and mass transport phenomena in biology and medicine and their impact on cells and tissues are pervasive in understanding the causes of disease and development of new prophylactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic protocols for improving human health. The workshop will include presentations by a number of leading researchers in these technical areas and will help researchers and funding agencies to define improved focus areas for future directions of research and education that will better link transport processes research with medical needs and advances.The broader impact of this Workshop is that there will be a wide spectrum of participants from throughout the biotransport and medical communities of the USA who will participate in developing and learning about the roadmap for future work in biotransport research and applications. There will be numerous female participants in the meeting. The Workshop will be co-sponsored by the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health, establishing a new collaboration between the two agencies in this important area addressing fundamental bioengineering and health issues.