Engineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (Conference Travel Support)

国家科学基金会建议编号：CTS-0650542主要研究员：希尔，詹姆斯从属关系：科罗拉多大学丹佛分校和健康科学中心提案标题：能量平衡和肥胖的工程方法(会议差旅支持)这笔赠款为参加2006年6月6日和7日在华盛顿举行的关于能量平衡和肥胖的工程方法研讨会的参与者提供部分差旅支持，该研讨会由NSF CTS和NIH赞助。讲习班的目的是就这一专题制定一项跨学科的国家卫生研究院/国家科学基金会联合征求意见。这次征集是由NIH最近发布的R21申请(RFA-HL-07-007)，资金来自NIH和NSF。来自美国各地的约100名参与者参加了研讨会，研讨会由科罗拉多大学健康科学中心的詹姆斯·希尔博士主持。这个研讨会的学术价值在于，它将从生理学角度研究肥胖的研究人员与生物工程领域的研究人员聚集在一起。研讨会的目的是勾勒出能量平衡和肥胖领域的关键问题，并鼓励肥胖研究人员和生物工程师之间的新合作。希望这些新颖的合作将为肥胖研究带来新的工具和新的想法，更具体地说，这些合作团队可以向NIH/NSF的联合征集提交建议。这个研讨会的更广泛的影响是让生物工程界参与肥胖症的研究。通过生物工程师的参与，人们希望开发新的技术、工具和方法来理解和治疗肥胖症。有许多女性参加了会议。最重要的是，讲习班促成了可能导致组建研究小组参加联合征集的对话。

ABSTRACTNational Science FoundationProposal Number: CTS-0650542Principal Investigator: Hill, JamesAffiliation: University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Proposal Title: Engineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (Conference Travel Support)This grant provides partial travel support for participants in a workshop on Engineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity, which was held under the sponsorship of NSF CTS and NIH in Washington, DC on June 6 & 7, 2006. The purpose of the workshop was to formulate an interdisciplinary, joint NIH/NSF solicitation on the topic. This solicitation was recently issued by NIH as an R21 Request for Applications (RFA-HL-07-007), with funding from both NIH and NSF. Approximately 100 participants attended the workshop from throughout the USA, and it was chaired by Dr. James Hill of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The intellectual merit of this workshop was that it brought together researchers studying obesity from a physiological perspective with researchers in the field of bioengineering. The intent of the workshop was to delineate the key issues in the field of energy balance and obesity and to stimulate novel collaborations between obesity researchers and bioengineers. It is hoped that these novel collaborations will bring new tools and new ideas to the study of obesity, and more specifically, that these collaborative teams can submit proposals to the joint NIH/NSF solicitation. The broader impact of this workshop was to engage the bioengineering community in the study of obesity. Through the involvement of bioengineers, it is hoped that new techniques, tools and approaches will be developed to understand and treat obesity. There were numerous female participants in the meeting. Most importantly, the workshop enabled dialog that may lead to the formation of research teams that can participate in the joint solicitation.