Workshop: Additive Manufacturing for Health; Arlington, Virginia; December 2015

该奖项支持一个研讨会，将广泛的健康领域的增材制造研究人员聚集在一起。增材制造指的是由计算机控制，不使用昂贵的工具或模具，一层一层地生产零件的一系列制造过程。这种制造策略已成为大量现有和新兴生物医学研究和医疗行业应用的使能技术，并且近年来该方法已得到广泛应用。增材制造有望从根本上改变先进制造的性质，并在21世纪彻底改变许多研究领域。该研讨会将帮助实现增材制造技术在各种健康相关应用和产品中的全部潜力。首先，对健康增材制造意识的提高将提高对制造研究的兴趣水平，特别是增材制造。根据讲习班的建议和对增材制造促进健康的更好理解，随后开展的任何研究重点预计将进一步推动增材制造在各种医学研究和开发工作中的应用。研讨会将持续1.5天，来自工业界和学术界的思想领袖将讨论增材制造在健康领域的未来，以及迄今为止的研究成果和基本研究需求。受邀演讲者将就增材制造在健康领域的未来应用进行介绍。进一步邀请的发言者将从资金支持的需要和预测两方面讨论供资的前景。演讲者将从工业界、学术界和政府部门招募，以获得广阔的视野。研讨会的目标是：(1)回顾健康增材制造基础研究的最新进展；(2)研究增材制造在健康领域的未来前景；(3)分享来自DoD、NIH、NIST和NSF等资助机构对健康增材制造的观点；(4)确定现有产品和新技术的增材制造在卫生领域面临的需求、差距和挑战；(5)提出基础研究工作建议。

This award supports a workshop to bring together additive manufacturing researchers in the broad field of health. Additive manufacturing describes a collection of manufacturing processes that produce parts layer-by-layer, controlled by a computer, and without the use of expensive tools or dies. This manufacturing strategy has been an enabling technology for a large number of existing and emerging biomedical research and medical industry applications, and the approach has become widespread in recent years. Additive manufacturing is expected to fundamentally change the nature of advanced manufacturing and revolutionize many areas of research in the 21st Century. The workshop will help realize the full potential of additive manufacturing technology for various health-related applications and products. First, the increased awareness of additive manufacturing for health will increase the level of interest in manufacturing research in general and additive manufacturing in particular. Any research thrusts initiated subsequently based on workshop recommendations and a better understanding of additive manufacturing for health are expected to increase the further adoption of additive manufacturing in various medical research and development efforts.The workshop will last 1.5 days, and will include thought leaders from industry and academe to address the future of additive manufacturing in health as well as the research accomplishments to date and the basic research needs. Invited speakers will make presentations regarding the future applications of additive manufacturing in health. Further invited speakers will address funding perspectives, both in terms of needs and the prognosis for funding support. Speakers will be recruited from industry, academe, and government in order to obtain a broad perspective. The objectives of the workshop are to: (1) review the state-of-the-art in basic research in additive manufacturing for health; (2) examine future prospects of additive manufacturing for health; (3)share perspectives on additive manufacturing for health from funding agencies such as DoD, NIH, NIST, and NSF; (4) identify needs, gaps, and challenges facing additive manufacturing for health, for both existing products and new enabled technologies; and (5) formulate recommendations for basic research initiatives.