Workshop on Frontiers in Bioengineering Research, February 25-26, 2013, Atlanta, GA

1258463 BaoIntellectual Merit生物工程是一个跨学科的领域，将工程和生命科学相结合，以促进人类健康和福祉，并解决其他现实世界的问题。随着生物工程和生物医学研究的最新进展，特别是在细胞和分子生物工程，生物和医学成像，生物材料和纳米医学方面，在过去十年中进行了大量的尖端研究，这些研究已经产生并将继续产生巨大影响，以改善人类健康和促进环境可持续性。然而，生物工程领域也面临着重大挑战。为了进一步发展这一领域，审视生物工程研究的现状，讨论这一跨学科领域的主要问题和挑战，并确定未来的研究方向，这将对我们的社会产生重大影响，这是非常重要的。为了满足这一迫切需要，PI和共同PI，博士.刚宝和罗伯特Nerem一直在组织一个由NSF赞助的研讨会，题为“生物工程研究前沿研讨会”，将于2013年2月25日至26日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行。为期两天的研讨会将包括三个部分：（1）生物和医学成像;（2）生物材料和应用;（3）细胞和分子生物工程。我们为每一次会议确定了特邀发言人和会议主席。本次研讨会的具体目标是：（1）汇集生物工程的领导者，展示该领域的前沿研究，（2）讨论进一步发展该领域的关键问题和挑战，以及（3）确定生物工程的未来研究方向。将努力征聘女性和少数民族发言人和与会者，并吸引年轻教员参加讲习班。预计本次研讨会将有助于开发新的想法和变革性的研究项目，将工程和生命科学相结合，解决基本的生物学问题，并解决显著改善人类健康的生物医学问题。为了实现研讨会的目标，将邀请生物工程领域的杰出领导者担任主题演讲人或会议主席。这个NSF会议补助金将支付他们的旅行费用和其他研讨会的部分费用。研讨会上的演讲和讨论将在提交给NSF的报告中进行总结。为了帮助传播讲习班的成果，《生物医学工程年鉴》计划出版一期特刊，其中可能包括一份根据讲习班讨论情况编写的关于生物工程未来方向的立场文件，并审查生物工程某些领域的文章。讲习班的专题介绍和报告也将在以下网址上分发：http://ibb.gatech.edu/frontiersBroader本次研讨会的讨论将促进我们对进一步发展生物工程的基本科学和技术问题和挑战的理解，并促进跨学科研究，这些研究可能导致生物工程在生物学和医学中更广泛的应用，从先进的生物成像技术和医学应用方法，到再生医学的新生物材料，到使用活细胞作为引擎的新设备，到诊断和治疗人类疾病的新纳米医学方法。通过让女性和少数群体的发言者作为讲习班的榜样，该讲习班将扩大代表性不足的群体的参与。该研讨会还将刺激转化研究和创新，并激励和帮助培养生物工程的年轻未来领导者。讲习班的成果将广泛传播，以加强对科学和技术的了解和影响。

1258463BaoIntellectual Merit Bioengineering is an interdisciplinary field that integrates engineering and life sciences to advance human health and well-being, and solve other real-world problems. With recent advances in bioengineering and biomedical research, especially in cellular and molecular bioengineering, biological and medical imaging, biomaterials and nanomedicine, a significant amount of cutting edge research has been performed over the last ten years, which has generated, and will continue to generate a large impact to improving human health and promoting environmental sustainability. However, the field of bioengineering is also facing significant challenges. To further develop this field, it is important to examine the current status of bioengineering research, discuss major issues and challenges in this interdisciplinary field, and identify future research directions that will significantly benefit our society.To meet this critical need, the PI and co-PI, Drs. Gang Bao and Robert Nerem have been organizing an NSF-sponsored Workshop titled, Workshop on Frontiers in Bioengineering Research, to be held February 25-26, 2013 in Atlanta, GA. This 2-day workshop will consist of three sessions: (1) Biological and Medical Imaging; (2) Bio-materials and Application; (3) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. For each session, we have identified invited speakers and a session chair. The specific objectives of this Workshop are: (1) to bring together leaders of bioengineering to showcase the cutting-edge research in the field, (2) to discuss the critical issues and challenges in further developing this field, and (3) to identify future research directions in bioengineering. Efforts will be made to recruit female and minority speakers and attendees, as well as attracting young faculty members to the Workshop. It is expected that thisWorkshop will help develop novel ideas and transformative research projects that integrate engineering and life sciences, address fundamental biological issues, and solve biomedical problems that significantly improve human health.In order to achieve the goals of the Workshop, outstanding leaders of bioengineering will be invited as keynote speakers or session chairs. This NSF Conference Grant will cover their travel expanses and part of other Workshop expenses. The presentations and discussions at the Workshop will be summarized in a report to NSF. To help disseminate the outcomes of the Workshop, Annals of Biomedical Engineering plans to publish a special issue that may include a position paper on future directions of bioengineering based on the discussions at the Workshop, and review articles in selected areas of bioengineering. The Workshop presentations and reports will also be disseminated at the web site: http://ibb.gatech.edu/frontiersBroader ImpactThe intellectual merit of the proposed workshop is the stimulation of creative, original, and potentially transformative new ideas and concepts and the identification of future directions in bioengineering, thus generating a broader impact to the fields of bioengineering, biotechnology, biology and medicine. The discussions at this workshop will advance our understanding of the underlying scientific and technological issues and challenges in further developing bioengineering, and facilitate interdisciplinary studies that may lead to a broader range of applications of bioengineering to biology and medicine, from advanced bio-imaging technologies and methods for medical applications, to new biomaterials for regenerative medicine, to new devices using living cells as an engine, to new nanomedicine approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases. By having female and minority speakers as the Workshop as role models, this Workshop will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups. This workshop will also stimulate translational research and innovation, and inspire and help train the young future leaders of bioengineering. The results of the workshop will be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding and impact.