Engineering Polymers for Stem-Cell-Fate Regulation and Regenerative Medicine

ID：MPS/DMR/BMAT（7623）1104752 PI：S. Wolf/S.海尔斯霍恩 ORG：戈登会议/斯坦福大学UTitle：用于干细胞命运调控和再生医学的工程聚合物该提案将支持研究生，博士后，以及代表性不足和初级教师的旅行奖励，以参加并出席为期2.5天的研讨会，在春季材料研究学会全国会议上的干细胞命运调控和再生医学工程聚合物在旧金山弗朗西斯科，CA，4月25日至29日，2011. 研讨会的广泛重点是评估分子设计，合成和聚合物材料的微米和纳米级制造的最新进展如何与干细胞生物学相结合，以开发基于干细胞的治疗和再生医学的新策略。 特别是，重点将放在使用聚合物科学和工程的新技术来控制生物化学和生物物理信号，在空间和时间上调节这些信号，并研究干细胞的行为和命运在这样的工程微环境及其对再生医学的影响。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会的目标是定义一个具有跨学科视角的研究人员的包容性社区，这些研究人员在聚合物科学，工程和干细胞生物学的交叉点上工作，以实现在未来十年内彻底改变基于干细胞的疗法的目标。 因此，该项目更广泛的影响是启动思想交流，促进材料科学家，生命科学家，工程师和临床医生之间新的多学科合作。 该项目还将使初级科学家，包括研究生，博士后学者和初级教师，特别是那些代表性不足的群体，介绍他们的研究成果，并与该领域的知名研究人员社区互动。 该活动还将宣传聚合物生物材料设计和合成的最新进展及其在基础发现驱动的干细胞生物学和应用再生医学疗法中的应用。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1104752 PI: S. Wolf/S. Heilshorn ORG: Gordon Conf/Stanford UTitle: Engineering Polymers for Stem-Cell-Fate Regulation and Regenerative MedicineINTELLECTUAL MERIT: This proposal will support travel awards for graduate students, post-docs, and underrepresented and junior faculty to attend and present at a 2.5-day symposium on Engineering Polymers for Stem-Cell-Fate Regulation and Regenerative Medicine at the Spring Materials Research Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 25-29, 2011. The broad focus of the symposium is to assess how the recent advances in molecular design, synthesis, and micro and nano-scale fabrication of polymeric materials can be integrated with stem cell biology to develop new strategies in stem cell-based therapies and regenerative medicine. In particular, the emphasis will be placed on using novel technologies in polymer science and engineering to control both biochemical and biophysical signals, to regulate these signals in space and time, and to investigate stem cell behavior and fate in such engineered microenvironments and their implications for regenerative medicine. BROADER IMPACTS:The objective of this symposium is to define an inclusive community of researchers with interdisciplinary perspectives working at the intersection of polymer science, engineering, and stem cell biology toward the goal of revolutionizing stem cell-based therapies over the coming decade. Thus, the broader impacts of this project are to initiate exchange of ideas and promote new multi-disciplinary collaborations among materials scientists, life scientists, engineers, and clinicians. The project will also enable junior scientists, including graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty, particularly those in underrepresented groups, to present their research findings and to interact with the community of established researchers in this field. The event will also publicize recent advances in the design and synthesis of polymeric biomaterials and their use in both fundamental discovery-driven stem cell biology and applied regenerative medicine therapies.