Conference Support for the ASME 2018 6th Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology

医学和生物学纳米工程的发展对于保持美国生物技术和医疗保健行业的技术竞争力至关重要。对这一新兴领域的下一代科学家和工程师进行强有力的教育和研究培训，将为实现这一目标奠定基础。本提案旨在支持学生，博士后和初级教师研究人员参加ASME 2018第六届医学和生物学纳米工程会议（NEMB 2018）。NEMB 2018旨在汇集生物工程、纳米材料、生物学和医学领域的顶尖专家，讨论医学和生物学纳米工程的最新进展，并激发新的想法。申请的资金将用于提供18名学生，5名博士后和8名初级教师调查员的旅行支持，该会议将提供一个论坛，通过讲座和研讨会来交流科学信息和教育参与者，并向更广泛的公众广泛传播有关本研究的信息。本次会议还将让与会者确定学术界、政府机构和工业界之间的合作机会；特别是在传统上没有联系的不同领域，并对各级科学家进行相关教育。将特别努力使来自代表性不足群体的学生和初级研究人员参与其中。NEMB的智力优势是将纳米工程和生物学结合起来，重点关注医学应用。我们将积极吸引大量的参与者，并提供一个令人兴奋的论坛，以说明基于纳米和微技术的生物传感、生物运输、生物力学和其他生物工程领域的知识价值，以解决生物学和医学中的紧迫问题。关键的知识问题包括使用纳米颗粒成像探针检测疾病的敏感性和特异性，使用纳米载体靶向药物/基因递送的有效性，体外和体内纳米颗粒运输的多尺度测量和建模，工程组织和病变组织的机械生物学的理解，以及纳米和生物材料的制造。这些是生物纳米工程、生物运输和生物力学的新兴领域，将在整个活动中得到相当大的关注。会议还将展示转化和商业化的努力，并讨论与纳米工程在医学中的应用有关的政策和伦理问题。申请的资金将通过学生海报竞赛和会议/赛道组织的方式，为18名学生、5名博士后和8名初级教师调查员提供旅行支持。这些新兴领域对于纳米生物传感、生物医学系统工程、化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统部门的项目非常重要。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Advancement of nanoengineering for medicine and biology is critically important to maintain technological competitiveness of the US biotechnology and healthcare industries. Strong education and research training of next generation scientists and engineers in this emerging area will build a foundation to achieve this goal. This proposal is to support participation of students, postdocs and junior faculty investigators in the ASME 2018 6th NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference (NEMB 2018). The NEMB 2018 aims to bring together leading experts in bioengineering, nanomaterials, biology and medicine, to discuss recent advances and to stimulate new ideas in nanoengineering for medicine and biology. The requested funds will be used to provide travel support of 18 students, 5 postdocs and 8 junior faculty investigators to this emerging conference, which will provide a forum, through lectures and workshops to exchange scientific information and to educate participants, and to broadly disseminate information about this research to the broader public. This meeting will also let participants to identify opportunities for collaboration within academia, government agencies, and industry; and in particular among disparate fields that are traditionally not connected, and educate scientists at all levels about them. Particular efforts will be devoted to involve students and junior researchers from underrepresented groups.The intellectual merit of the NEMB is to integrate nanoengineering and biology with a strong focus in medical applications. We willactively involve a large community of participants, and provide an exciting forum to exemplify the intellectual merit of nano- and micro-technology based biosensing, biotransport, biomechanics and other bioengineering areas in the solution of pressing problems in biology and medicine. Key intellectual questions include the sensitivity and specificity in disease detection using nanoparticle imaging probes, efficacy of targeted drug/gene delivery using nanocarriers, multiscale measurement and modeling of nanoparticle transport in vitro and in vivo, understanding of mechanobiology for engineered and diseased tissues, and manufacturing of nano- and biomaterials. These are emerging areas of bionanoengineering, biotransport and biomechanics that will receive considerable attention throughout this event. The conference will also showcase translational and commercialization efforts, and discuss policy and ethical issues related to nanoengineering applications in medicine. The requested funds will be used to provide travel support of 18 students, 5 postdocs and 8 junior faculty investigators by inviting them through student's poster competition and session/track organization.These are emerging areas that are of great importance for Nano-Biosensing, and Engineering of Biomedical Systems Programs of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.