ICPM-2 Student support

该奖项为参加第二届国际血浆医学会议（ICPM-2）的研究生提供旅费支持，该会议将于2009年3月16日至20日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市举行。NSF基金的目标是研究生参加会议，资助大约25名学生的旅行。等离子体研究是一个多学科领域，包括工程和科学的不同学科。PI认为，最近等离子体技术在治疗活细胞、组织和器官方面的展示正在创造等离子体医学，这是等离子体科学和技术与生物学和医学交叉的一个新领域。本次会议的既定目标是创建一个论坛，将等离子领域的专业人士与医学专业人士、生物学家和生物化学家聚集在一起，以开发一种共同的语言，更好地定义关键挑战、开放问题，并朝着有效的解决方案迈进。这次会议将允许血浆和医学研究人员在一个激动人心的技术论坛上交流思想。这项活动的智力价值来自于来自美国各地和各国的等离子体和生物医学工程专家的参与，他们的技术成果的传播，他们与学生的交流，以及他们对未来研究方向的设想。

CBET-0840927FridmanThis award provides support for graduate-student travel to the Second International Conference on Plasma Medicine, ICPM-2, which will be held in San Antonio, TX, on March 16-20, 2009. NSF funds are targeted toward the participation of graduate students at the meeting, aiding travel of approximately 25 students.Plasma research is a multi-disciplinary field encompassing diverse disciplines in engineering and science. The PI contends that recent demonstrations of plasma technology in treatment of living cells, tissues, and organs are creating Plasma Medicine, a new field at the intersection of plasma science and technology with biology and medicine. The stated goal of this conference is to create a forum that brings professionals from the field of plasma together with medical professionals, biologists, and biochemists in order to develop a common language, better define key challenges, open questions, and move toward effective solutions.This conference will allow plasma and medical researchers to exchange ideas in a stimulating technical forum. The intellectual merit of this activity arises from the participation of plasma and biomedical-engineering experts from across the United States and from various countries, dissemination of their technical findings, their communications with students, and their visions of future research directions.