AfroBiotech Conference: Black Lives Matter in Science, Engineering and Medicine

“非洲生物技术：黑人在科学、工程和医学中的生命也很重要”会议将于10月26日至28日在虚拟平台上举行，这是由于目前世界面临的covid -19大流行。会议将突出非洲裔美国人在生物技术方面的成就，激励新一代多样化的生物技术专业人员，识别、交流和探索生物技术各个方面的最新进展。该论坛组织了来自美国各地的非裔美国人科学人才参加一次活动，旨在使生物技术行业能够雇用不同的专业人员，激励其他科学会议的组织者邀请不同的演讲者，并激励下一代不同的学生和学者加入这个社区。选择了一个虚拟平台，它将允许充满活力和高度互动的虚拟活动，包括海报会议、问答讨论和小组/一对一讨论。会议为科学报告、网络、扩展讨论、报告提供论坛，并包括早期职业研究人员、博士后助理和研究生。尽管生物工程领域正在迅速扩张，并与美国和全球经济融合，但数据显示，非裔美国人在这一科学领域的代表性仍然不足。也有越来越多的非裔美国人进入这一科学领域，但这一增长仍不足以缓解生物工程领域代表性不足的问题。这种情况为非裔美国生物工程师社区提供了一个机会，他们可以组织起来应对这些未来的机会。非洲生物技术会议将为非裔美国生物工程师创建一个论坛，组织起来关注这一不断增长的机会，同时讨论与生物工程相关的科学领域的进展和前景。会议有一个多样化的议程，包括早期职业和博士后研究人员以及研究生。议程安排了建立网络和扩大讨论的会议。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。

The AfroBiotech: Black Lives Matter in Science, Engineering and Medicine conference will be held October 26-28 on a virtual platform owing to the Covin-19 pandemic facing the world at present. The conference will highlight the achievements of African Americans in biotechnology, inspire a new generation of diverse biotechnology professionals and identify, communicate, and explore current advancements in various aspects of Biotechnology. This forum organizes African-American scientific talent from across the U.S. at a single event and aims to enable the biotech industry to hire diverse professionals, inspire organizers of other scientific conferences to invite diverse speakers and inspire the next generation of diverse students and scholars to join this community. A virtual platform that will allow for vibrant and highly interactive virtual events that include a poster session, Q&A discussions, and small group/one on one discussion has been chosen. The conference provides forums for scientific presentations, networking, extended discussions, presentations and is inclusive of early-career researchers, postdoctoral associates and graduate students.Although the field of biological engineering is rapidly expanding and integrating with the US and global economies the data show that African Americans continue to be underrepresented in this scientific area. There is also an increasing number of African Americans entering this scientific area but this growth is still insufficient to alleviate the underrepresentation in the field of biological engineering. This situation represents an opportunity for the community of African American biological engineers to organize itself to address these future opportunities. The AfroBiotech conference will create a forum for African American biological engineers to become organized to focus on this growing opportunity and at the same time address advances and prospects in scientific areas pertinent to biological engineering. The conference has a diverse agenda that is inclusive of early-career and postdoctoral researchers as well as graduate students. The agenda accommodates sessions for networking and extended discussions.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.