Bioelectromagnetics Society 29th Annual Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本拨款提案部分用于资助生物电磁学学会2007年年会的15名演讲者和24名研究生的会议费用和/或差旅费。生物电磁学学会（BEMS）成立于1978年，汇集了一个独特的跨学科科学界，包括生物物理学家、电气工程师、细胞生物学家、动物生理学家、临床医生、流行病学家和其他对所有频率的电场和磁场与生物系统之间的相互作用感兴趣的公共卫生从业人员。年会的目标是通过在一个开放的论坛上促进所有这些学科之间的讨论和互动来推动这一领域的发展，重点是电场和磁场在诊断和治疗人类疾病方面的有用应用，以及电场暴露对健康可能产生的影响。这些互动经常导致富有成效的合作和新的研究方法。BEMS是一家501(c)(3)非营利组织，总部位于马里兰州弗雷德里克，每年组织一次会议，并出版一份评审档案期刊《生物电磁学》和一份定期通讯。2007年BEMS会议有几个主要焦点：a)生物电磁在癌症诊断和治疗中的应用；b)生物电磁刺激伤口愈合与再生；c)生物电磁学：对人类健康的考虑；d)生物电磁在人类神经系统中的应用。我们国际参与的传统将继续下去，来自美国和国外的发言者，特别是来自欧洲和日本的发言者将大量参与。之所以选择日本金泽，是因为我们有很多亚洲会员，而且我们以前从未在亚洲见过面。我们将有15位全体发言人，其中约1/3来自美国以外的国家。全体会议发言人有30分钟时间介绍他们的最新成果，10分钟时间进行讨论和提问。我们预计将有300张海报和12分钟的平台论文，以及大约400名与会者。所有论文的讨论，以及所有与会者之间的非正式接触，对于新思想的发展和新成果的适当消化是非常重要的。所有会议摘要将在我们协会的网站上提供给公众，并可通过关键字进行搜索。本次会议与公共卫生的相关性在于，它将促进研究电磁场与生命系统相互作用的科学家与FDA等监管机构以及利用电磁技术生产医疗设备的行业之间的信息交流。本次会议强调生物电磁学在医学诊断和治疗中的应用，包括成像和刺激的经典领域以及替代医学的几个新领域，如毫米波治疗和电针。这次会议在其广度和跨学科性质上是独一无二的，汇集了工程师，生物学家，物理学家和医生，以推进生物电磁学的医学应用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This grant proposal is to partially fund conference fees and/or travel expenses for 15 speakers and 24 graduate students at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society. The Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS), established in 1978, brings together a uniquely interdisciplinary scientific community that includes biophysicists, electrical engineers, cell biologists, animal physiologists, clinicians, epidemiologists and other public health practitioners interested in the interaction between electric and magnetic fields of all frequencies and biological systems. The annual meeting's goal is to advance the field by stimulating discussions and interactions among all of these disciplines in an open forum, concentrating on the useful applications of electric and magnetic fields for the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases as well as possible health effects from field exposure. These interactions have often led to fruitful collaborations and new research approaches. BEMS, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with headquarters in Frederick, MD, organizes a yearly conference and publishes a refereed archival journal, Bioelectromagnetics, and a periodic Newsletter. The 2007 BEMS meeting has several major foci: a) Bioelectromagnetic applications to cancer diagnosis and treatment; b) Bioelectromagnetic stimulation of wound healing and regeneration; c) Bioelectromagnetics: Human Health Considerations; d) Bioelectromagnetic applications to the human nervous system. Our tradition of international participation will continue, with significant involvement of speakers from both the US and abroad, especially from Europe and Japan. The site, Kanazawa, Japan was chosen because we have a large Asian membership and we have never met in Asia before. We will have fifteen plenary speakers with about 1/3 of them coming from outside the US. Plenary speakers have 30 minutes to present their latest results and 10 min for discussion and questions. We anticipate 300 contributed posters and 12-min platform papers and approximately 400 attendees. Discussion of all papers, as well as informal contacts between all attendees, is very important for the development of new ideas and the appropriate digestion of new results. All meeting abstracts will be available to the public on our Society's web site and will be searchable by key word. The relevance of this conference to public health is that it will foster information exchange between scientists studying electromagnetic field interactions wtih living systems and regulatory agencies such as the FDA as well as industries producing medical devices utilizing electromagnetics. This Conference emphasizes applications of Bioelectromagnetics to medical diagnosis and treatment and includes the classical areas of imaging and stimulation along with several new areas of alternative medicine such as millimeter wave therapy and electro-acupuncture. This conference is unique in its breadth and interdisciplinary nature bringing together engineers, biologists, physicists and medical doctors to advance the medical applications of bioelectromagnetics.