International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering, April 29, 2012 - May 2, 2012, Seattle, WA

1232544/Cortes-Caminero该提案旨在支持将于2012年4月29日至5月2日星期三在华盛顿州西雅图的喜来登酒店举行的“第三届干细胞工程国际会议”。 会议主席是Sean Palecek和Charles Murray。干细胞领域已迅速成为生物学、生物工程和医学领域重要的多学科研究领域。然而，没有论坛的主要目标是将生物学家、医学科学家和工程师聚集在一起，讨论他们的学科如何合作，为限制新技术和新疗法发展的问题找到新的解决方案。为了满足这一需要，生物伦理学秘书处与生物工程学会合作，正在组织和举办第三届干细胞工程国际会议，这是国际干细胞工程会议系列会议的第三次会议，每两年举行一次，旨在汇集来自学术界和工业界的研究人员，他们正在使用定量方法和新技术开发来促进对干细胞生物学的理解和应用，工程. ICSCE会议系列将有助于促进，塑造和完善干细胞工程领域的定义。 学术价值目前还没有其他会议为新兴的干细胞工程领域提供论坛。虽然工程师参加国际会议，如国际干细胞研究学会会议，但在这个或类似的活动中，干细胞工程师和干细胞生物学家之间没有直接的互动论坛。ISSCR同意共同组织这次活动的事实证明了这两个社区之间平衡互动的重要性的认识。从生物工程方面来看，尽管有其他会议在干细胞工程方面有一些计划，（AIChE，ACS，BMES），这一方案往往是分散的，不包括在干细胞生物学或干细胞工程的多个方面的世界领导人的存在。在这三种情况下，大型会议的形式也没有促进参与者之间相同水平的互动。还有一些规模与ICSCE类似的关于干细胞的小型会议，如Keystone Symposia。这些都有非常高质量的节目，但他们的重点更多地放在干细胞和发育生物学领域，工程内容有限。最后，也有一些小规模的营利性会议，成功地吸引了学术界和工业界的成员，但这些会议往往没有生物学和工程学的领军人物参加。更广泛的影响上述组织中没有一个符合ICSCE的具体目标。此外，我们相信，我们对干细胞生物学和工程学在许多层面上的整合的重视是新的和独特的，这一主题反映在我们的整个科学计划中。在这一申请中寻求对第三次ICSCE的支持，组织者打算继续每两年举行一次会议。设计细胞疗法？，本次会议的目的是提供一个场所：1.对于科学演示从一个领先的干细胞生物学和工程研究人员谁涵盖了新兴领域的干细胞工程的广度不同群体. 2.为学术和行业研究人员之间的互动，谁带来不同的方法和观点的技术方面和干细胞工程的商业化潜力。积极参与博士。干细胞生物学和生物工程领域的在校生和博士后研究生，他们代表着干细胞生物学和工程的未来.将生物学家、医学科学家和工程师聚集在一起，在合作的气氛中讨论他们的学科和方法，并激励新的研究，克服限制干细胞技术发展的障碍。为了改善干细胞工程领域对不同科学家群体的访问，包括几乎没有干细胞经验的生物工程师以及妇女和代表性不足的群体。为了了解干细胞工程领域日益全球化的性质，并确定国际合作如何促进这一领域的发展。会议的范围，主题和目标完全符合NSF的使命，NSF越来越致力于将物理和工程科学与生命科学相结合，鼓励多学科领域的研究和开发，教育下一代年轻研究人员，并帮助增加科学和工程领域劳动力的多样性。这项申请如果成功，将直接影响目标3-6，为研究生/博士后助理参与者提供部分支持，并通过为通常分开的领先科学家和工程师之间的互动提供一个论坛，以激发可能有利于经济和健康的新想法，来自NSF的资金将专门用于支持年轻的研究人员和研究生。 注意增加妇女和代表人数不足的少数群体在组织委员会中的人数，以及作为发言者和与会者的人数。 会议材料将在会后在一个公共网站上提供。

1232544/ Cortes-CamineroThis proposal is to help support "The Third International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering" to be held April 29 through Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, WA. The conference chairs are Sean Palecek and Charles Murray.The field of stem cells has rapidly emerged as an important multidisciplinary area of research in biology, bioengineering, and medicine. There are no forums, however, whose primary goal is to bring together biologists, physician-scientists and engineers to discuss ways in which their disciplines can collaborate to find novel solutions to problems that are limiting the development of new technologies and therapies. In response to this need, SBE in collaboration with AIChE is organizing and instituting the Third International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering (ICSCE).The Third ICSCE will be the third in a series of ICSCE meetings, held every two years, designed to bring together researchers from academia and industry that are using quantitative approaches and novel technology development to advance the understanding and application of stem cell biology and engineering. The ICSCE meeting series will serve to promote, shape, and refine the definition of the Stem Cell Engineering field. Approximately 200 people are expected to attend.Intellectual Merit There is currently no other meeting that provides a forum for the emerging field of Stem Cell Engineering. Although engineers attend international meetings such as the International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting, there is no direct forum for interactions between stem cell engineers and stem cell biologists at this or similar events. The fact that the ISSCR has agreed to co-organize this event is a testament to the recognition of the importance for balanced interactions between these two communities.From the bioengineering side, although there are other conferences that have some programming in stem cell engineering (AIChE, ACS, BMES), this programming is often diffuse and does not include the presence of world leaders in multiple facets of stem cell biology or stem cell engineering. In these three cases, the format of the large meetings also does not foster the same level of interaction among participants. There are also smaller meetings on stem cells, of similar size to ICSCE, such as Keystone Symposia. These have very high quality programming, but their focus has been more in the area of stem cell and developmental biology, with limited to no engineering content. Finally, there are also small scale, for-profit conferences that successfully draw elements from academia and industry, but these are often not attended by leading figures from biology and engineering.Broader Impact None of the organizations cited above caters to the specific aims of the ICSCE. Furthermore, we believe that our emphasis on the integration of stem cell biology and engineering at many levels is new and unique, and this theme is reflected throughout our scientific program. Support is sought for the Third ICSCE in this application, and the organizers intend for this conference to continue to be held every two years.The Theme of this third meeting is ?Designing Cellular Therapies?, and the Aims of this conference are to provide a venue:1. For scientific presentations from a diverse group of leading stem cell biology and engineeringresearchers who cover the breadth of the emerging field of Stem Cell Engineering.2. For interactions between academic and industry researchers, who bring different approaches and perspectives to the technical aspects and commercialization potential of Stem Cell Engineering.3. For active participation by Ph.D. students and postdoctoral trainees in stem cell biology andbioengineering fields, who represent the future of stem cell biology and engineering.4. For bringing biologists, physician-scientists and engineers together in an collaborative atmosphere to discuss their disciplines and approaches, and to motivate new research that overcomes barriers limiting the development of stem cell-based technologies.5. For improving the access of the field of Stem Cell Engineering to a diverse group of scientists,including bioengineers with little stem cell experience and women and underrepresented groups.6. For understanding the increasingly global nature of the field of Stem Cell Engineering and identifying how international collaborations can facilitate the advancement of this field.The scope, theme, and aims of the meeting fall squarely within the mission of the NSF, which has been increasingly committed to integrating the physical and engineering sciences with the life sciences, encouraging research and development in multidisciplinary areas, educating the next generation of young researchers, and helping increase the diversity of the workforce in science and engineering.This application, if successful, will directly impact Aims 3-6, by providing partial support for graduate student/postdoctoral associate participants, and by providing a forum for the interactions between normally separated leading scientists and engineers to stimulate new ideas that could benefit economic and health-related activity.Funding from NSF would go specifically to support young investigators and graduate students. Attention was paid to increase numbers of women and underrepresented minorities on the organizing committee, and as speakers, as well as among attendees. Conference materials will be available on a public web site after the conference.