Workshop: Grand Challenges for Bio-Nano Integrated Manufacturing - A Bi-lateral Workshop between US and China; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; April 11-13, 2011

这笔赠款为与国家科学基金会、中国机械工程学会和清华大学联合举办的研讨会提供了部分资金，以促进美国和中国在集成生物纳米制造领域的研究合作。本次双边研讨会将于2011年4月11日至13日在北京举行，中国。这一双边研讨会的目的是汇聚多学科的研究人员，回顾生物纳米集成制造、其科学、工程、新工艺以及在工程、生物和生物工程领域的新兴应用的最新进展、挑战和未来方向。研讨会的主题包括但不限于：1)在生物机械、集成细胞系统和先进细胞模型的生物、疾病和药物研究方面识别集成生物纳米制造的重大挑战；2)回顾集成生物纳米制造、制造科学、工程、建模和新工艺的使能技术；3)展望集成生物纳米制造的未来研究和发展，并探索生物和纳米制造及其集成界面上的协同作用和合作机会；4)培训下一代研究人员、科学家、工程师和劳动力的教育课程的机会。研讨会的结果将确定生物纳米制造及其集成在广泛的3D生物学、疾病、药物发现和组织科学和工程应用中制造新兴生物细胞系统和先进细胞模型的挑战。研讨会还将促进开发关于综合生物纳米制造、生物纳米制造科学、工程、建模和新工艺的使能技术，并为联邦机构展望综合生物纳米制造的未来研究和发展提供指导。

This grant provides partial funding for a joint workshop with the National Science Foundation, the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering and Tsinghua University to facilitate the research collaboration between US and China in the field of integrated bio-nanomanufacturing. This bi-lateral workshop will be held in Beijing, China; April 11-13, 2011. The objective of this bilateral workshop is to bring together multi-disciplinary researchers to review the recent advances, challenges and future directions on Bio-Nano Integrated Manufacturing, its science, engineering, the novel processes, and the emerging applications in the field of engineering, biology and bioengineering. The tentative workshop topics include, but are not limited to: 1) Identify grand challenges for integrated bio-nano manufacturing for fabrication of biological machines, integrated cellular system, and advanced cellular models for biological, disease and drug studies; 2) Review enabling techniques on integrated bio-nano manufacturing, the manufacturing science, engineering, modeling, the novel processes; 3) Vision the future research and development on integrated bio-nanomanufacturing and explore synergies and collaborative opportunities at the interface of bio and nano manufacturing and its integration; 4) Opportunities for education curricula to train next generation of researchers, scientists, engineers and workforce in emerging integrated bio-nanomanufacturing.The outcome of workshop will define challenges for bio-nano manufacturing and its integration for fabrication of emerging biological cellular systems and advanced cellular models in a broad 3D biology, disease, drug discovery and tissue science and engineering application. The workshop will also facilitate developing enabling techniques on integrated bio-nanomanufacturing, the bio-nanomanufacturing science, engineering, modeling, the novel processes, and provide guidance for federal agencies to vision the future research and development on integrated bio-nanomanufacturing.