Advanced Study Institute on Global Healthcare Grand Challenges and Opportunities, Antalya, Turkey, July 15-30, 2011

1110885，这个奖项将资助10名研究生、博士后和25名教职员工参加由美国国家工程院、休斯顿大学生物医学工程系和阿克德尼兹大学共同发起的第二届全球医疗保健重大挑战和机遇高级研究所的旅费，该研究所将于2011年7月15日至30日在土耳其安塔利亚举行。美国国家工程院在美国科学促进会的年度会议上宣布了14项工程重大挑战。委员会还赞扬了生物医学和生物工程作为实现个性化医学承诺的研究领域。在这14项挑战中包括逆向工程？设计大脑、设计更好的药物和推进健康信息学。利用这些信息的一个重要方式是开发方法，使医生能够预测潜在治疗或治愈的益处和副作用。大脑逆向工程是一门新兴学科，它帮助我们了解大脑是如何工作的，以及如何治疗几种疾病。此外，它还有助于我们发展计算机化的人工智能。反过来，先进的计算机智能应该能够实现自动诊断和治疗处方。计算机化的健康信息目录将增强医疗系统跟踪疾病传播和分析不同预防和治疗方法的比较有效性的能力。最后，设计新药将帮助我们对抗日益增长的来自新型致病因子的攻击危险。例如，某些致命细菌反复进化出新的特性，即使是最强大的抗生素也会产生抗药性。新病毒的出现具有杀死和传播疾病的能力，比疾病预防系统设计的抗击能力更快。智力价值：全球医疗保健高级夏季研究所的主要目标是强调和讨论这些新出现的重大挑战，主要集中在科学、工程、技术和医学领域的最新进展。该研究所提供了一个独特的环境来讨论新兴的研究领域、挑战和机遇，这导致了非常富有成效的讨论。广泛的影响：它让具有生物学和医学背景的与会者接触到这些新兴使能技术的最新发展。它还有助于那些有工程和科学背景的人，他们对生物无机学和纳米医学、神经科学和工程学的研究感兴趣，因为高级研究所提供了对生物学和医学中的基本挑战的特殊见解

1110885, AkayThis award will fund the travel expenses of 10 graduate students and post-docs and 25 faculty to participate at the 2nd Advanced Study Institute on Global Healthcare Grand Challenges and Opportunities cosponsored by National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston and the Akdeniz University will be held on July 15-30, 2011, Antalya, Turkey.The National Academy of Engineering announced the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The committee also praised biomedical and biological engineering as the research field to fulfill the promise of personalized medicine. Included among these 14 challenges were Reverse?Engineering the Brain, Engineer better Medicines and Advance Health Informatics.An important way of exploiting such information would be through the development of methods that allow doctors to forecast the benefits and side effects of potential treatments or cures."Reverse-Engineering" the Brain, is an emerging discipline that helps us to understand how the brain works and treats several diseases. It furthermore helps us to develop computerized artificial intelligence. Advanced computer intelligence, in turn, should enable automated diagnosis and prescriptions for treatment. Computerized catalogs of health information will enhance the medical system's ability to track the spread of disease and analyze the comparative effectiveness of different approaches to prevention and therapy. Finally, engineering new medicines will help us fight the growing danger of attacks from novel disease-causing agents. For instance, certain deadly bacteria have repeatedly evolved new properties, conferring resistance against even the most powerful antibiotics. New viruses arise with the power to kill and spread more rapidly than disease-prevention systems are designed to counteract.Intellectual Merits: The main objective of the Advanced Summer Institute on Global Healthcare-- Challenges and Opportunities is to highlight and discuss these emerging grand challenges, mainly focused on the latest advances in the areas of science, engineering, technology and medicine. The institute provides a unique environment to discuss the emerging research areas, challenges and opportunities which lead to very fruitful discussions.Broader Impacts: It exposes the attendees with biology and medicine backgrounds to the latest developments in these emerging enabling technologies. It is also helpful to those with engineering and science background who are interested in doing research in bionanoscience and nanomedicine, neuroscience and engineering since the advanced institute provides exceptional insights into the fundamental challenges in biology and medici