Biomaterials Workshop: Instrumentation and Foundry to Advance Research

生物材料、生物材料制造、计算、生物学和生物医学研究的最新进展突出了对先进实验工具、新材料合成和制造方法、最先进的分析技术和计算方法的需求。该研讨会确定了生物分子和生物材料系统的重大挑战和机遇，这些系统将受益于对研究团队和仪器的投资。该研讨会将确定关键需求领域，在这些领域中，中等规模的设施和仪器将发挥催化作用，跨学科协作团队以紧密和迭代的方式工作，可以消除加速材料发现的瓶颈。通过用户设施计划等机制，将这些仪器提供给整个生物材料界，可能会加速全国新生物材料的发现和技术创新。研讨会将包括来自美国大学的教师和学生以及来自国家实验室和行业的研究人员。讲习班将包括特邀讲座、小组讨论、分组会议以及关于当前和新出现趋势的报告。 本次研讨会的结果将在正式报告中公布，它将捕捉潜在机会的兴奋和希望。

Recent advances in biomaterials, biomaterials fabrication, computation, biology, and biomedical research have highlighted the need for advanced experimental tools, new materials synthesis and fabrication methods, state-of-the-art analytical techniques, and computational methods. This workshop identifies grand challenges and opportunities in biomolecular and biomaterials systems that would benefit from investment in both research teams and instrumentation. The workshop will identify critical need areas where mid-scale level facilities and instruments would be catalytic and collaborative interdisciplinary teams working in a tightknit and iterative fashion could eliminate bottlenecks to accelerated materials discovery. Making these instruments available to the biomaterials community at large, through mechanisms such as a user facility program, could lead to accelerated new biomaterials discoveries and technological innovation throughout the nation. The workshop will include faculty and students from US universities and researchers from national laboratories and industry. The workshop will comprise of invited lectures, panel discussions, group break-out sessions and reporting on current and emerging trends. This workshop, whose results will appear in a formal report, will capture the excitement and promise of potential opportunities.