Workshop: International Workshop for Biomanufacturing, Tsinghua University; Beijing, China; June 29 - July 1, 2005

该奖项为15名来自美国的与会者提供旅费，以参加将于2005年6月29日至7月1日在中国北京举行的生物制造国际研讨会。 本次研讨会将回顾生物制造的最新进展，重点是最先进的研究和生物制造工艺，过程科学和工程，新的工艺设备的发展，以及组织工程替代品，人工器官，骨科植入物和医疗器械的应用。 研讨会的主题还将涵盖新一代微血管网络和通过细胞/蛋白质打印和图案化生产的生物芯片。 特别是，研讨会将重点关注固体自由成形制造和基于固体自由成形制造的生物制造，生物涂层，微制造，细胞和器官打印的新型制造工艺，模拟组织前体和先进3D组织支架的构建，和计算机辅助组织工程。研讨会将汇集多个-学科研究人员审查生物制造的新兴领域及其应用生物医学和组织工程。 研讨会将确定工程设计/制造和生命科学之间的协同作用，以及生物制造领域未来研究和开发的挑战和机遇。 研讨会的传播将作为目前在设计和制造，生物制造领域工作的研究人员的参考，并为其他有兴趣进入生物制造领域，以及行业和政府组织。 此外，该研讨会将帮助NSF评估中国在固体自由成型制造、生物制造和组织工程领域的当前和未来技术发展。

This award provides funding to support travel for 15 participants from the United States to attend the International Workshop on Biomanufacturing, which will be held in Beijing, China, from June 29 to July 1, 2005. This workshop will review the recent advances in biomanufacturing with an emphasis on state-of-the-art research and development of bio-manufacturing processes, process science and engineering, novel process equipment, and applications to tissue-engineered substitutes, artificial organs, orthopedic implants, and medical devices. The workshop topics will also cover new generation of microvasculature networks and biological chips produced by cell/protein printing and patterning. Particularly, the workshop will focus on solid freeform fabrication and the solid freeform fabrication-based biomanufacturing, bio-coating, micro-fabrication, novel fabrication processes for cell and organ printing, construction of analogy tissue precursor and advanced 3D tissue scaffolds, and computer-aided tissue engineering.The workshop will bring together multi-disciplinary researchers to review an emerging field of biomanufacturing and its applications to biomedical and tissue engineering. The workshop will identify synergy between engineering design/manufacturing and life sciences as well as challenges and opportunities for future research and development in the field of biomanufacturing. The workshop dissemination will serve as a reference for investigators currently working in the field of design and manufacturing, biomanufacturing, and for others interested in entering the field of biomanufacturing, as well as for industry and governmental organizations. In addition, the workshop will help NSF to assess China's current and future technological development in the field of solid freeform fabrication, biomanufacturing and tissue engineering.