Support for Trainees and Independent Junior Investigators at BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference 2021; Palm Springs, California; 3-7 January 2021

该奖项将支持参与并为学生，博士后研究员和独立的初级研究人员（新星）提供旅行津贴，用于2021年生物医学工程学会（BMES）-细胞和分子生物工程（CMBE）会议;棕榈泉，加州; 2021年1月3日至7日。会议旨在整合蛋白质工程和微生理系统的不同领域，以改变我们建模，探测和理解病理生理学的能力，并以最终有益于人类健康的方式转化新发现。本次会议有两个目标：（1）促进采用新技术和战略，以实现变革性发现;（2）促进初级研究人员、博士后研究员和研究生与CMBE这些新兴子领域的领导者的互动。12名学员将由组委会选出，接受学生/研究员奖，并发表简短的演讲，这些演讲将纳入主题会议。此外，八位不同的早期职业独立教师调查员将被选中参加特别的“冉冉升起的星星”奖项和会议，该奖项和会议将在会议的第一天举行，以展示他们的工作。2021年会议的主题将是“照明和引领：多细胞系统中的分子工具”。科学目标是：1）促进新的分子尺度工具的开发，用于探测和操纵细胞行为; 2）简化这些尖端方法的过渡，用于复杂的多细胞系统，更准确地模拟生理和病理过程; 3）使这些进步能够以最终有益于人类健康的方式转化。例如改进的药物筛选系统和细胞治疗诊断学，它们能感知和响应疾病状态中的环境线索。会议将介绍和整合具有临床和/或创业经验的工程师和基础科学家的多元化群体。特邀演讲者和主题演讲者将讨论他们如何弥合基础研究和特定领域翻译之间的差距。CMBE领域正在经历指数增长，蛋白质工程和微生理系统开发的子领域是重要的驱动力。2021年会议将汇集生物学，医学和工程领域的领导者，以解决这些尖端方法如何在CMBE研究和教育中创新地整合和应用。 该奖项由分子和细胞生物科学部的系统和合成生物学集群共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF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。

This award will support participation and provide travel stipends for students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent junior investigators (Rising Stars) for the 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)-Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Conference; Palm Springs, California; 3-7 January 2021. The meeting is intended to integrate the disparate fields of protein engineering and microphysiological systems to transform our abilities to model, probe, and understand pathophysiology as well as translate new discoveries in ways that ultimately benefit human health. There are two aims associated with this meeting: (1) Promote adoption of new technologies and strategies to achieve transformative discoveries and (2) Facilitate interaction of junior investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students with leaders in these burgeoning sub-fields of CMBE. Twelve trainees will be selected by the organizing committee to receive Student/Fellow Awards and present short talks, which will be integrated into the themed sessions. In addition, eight diverse early-career independent faculty investigators will be selected for the special 'Rising Star' awards and session, which will take place on the first day of the meeting, to showcase their work.The theme of the 2021 Conference will be “Lighting and Leading the Way: Molecular Tools in Multicellular Systems’’. The scientific goals are to 1) catalyze the development of new molecular-scale tools for probing and manipulating cell behavior, 2) ease the transition of these cutting edge approaches for use in complex multicellular systems that more accurately model physiological and pathological processes, and 3) enable the translation of the these advancements in ways that can ultimately benefit human health, such as improved drug screening systems and cellular theranostics that sense and respond to environmental cues found in disease states. The conference will introduce and integrate a diverse group of engineers and basic scientists possessing clinical and/or entrepreneurial experience. Invited speakers and keynotes will discuss how they bridge the gap between fundamental research and translation in their specific fields. The CMBE field is experiencing exponential growth, with the subfields of protein engineering and microphysiological systems development being significant drivers. The 2021 Conference will bring together leaders in the field of biology, medicine, and engineering to address how these cutting-edge approaches can be integrated and applied innovatively in CMBE research and education. This award is co-funded by the Systems and Synthetic Biology cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, among others.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.