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CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | January 12, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 12, 2018 |
| Award Number: | 1759748 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Aleksandr Simonian
asimonia@nsf.gov (703)292-2191 CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ENG Directorate for Engineering |
| Start Date: | January 15, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2018 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $41,210.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $41,210.00 |
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8021 FLINT ST SPRINGFIELD VA US 22153-2438 (206)613-9364 |
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8021 FLINT STREET Springfield VA US 22153-2438 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Engineering of Biomed Systems |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
NSF has made an award in support of participant travel costs and management costs associated with the "Bioengineering Road Map Summit" being held in the Mountain View, CA, at the NASA Ames Research Center, January 8-10, 2018. The proposal builds upon a previous 2015 and 2016 NSF BME funded workshops in which a Roadmap was created and refined identifying pathways, milestones, and challenges toward ending the organ shortage. This workshop seeks to finalize and publish a public version of the Road Map that draws on expertise from government, industry, and academia to identify the challenge topics, sub-challenges, and technology opportunities that should be addressed to accelerate advancement towards the end goal of engineered solutions to organ disease and impairment.
The workshop will be organized around the structure of the 14 Road Map Committees and will include three main types of activities: 1) keynote panels and presentations; 2) road map working groups; and 3) integrated networking. It is anticipated that 200 to 300 researchers will participate in the Summit. Outputs expected include: 1) An updated Road Map Report for public distribution, including a searchable online version; 2) an increased number of collaborations between participating researchers; and 3) identification of innovative research opportunities and funding sources by introducing non-traditional researchers to the field. Keynote speakers and participants will be curated through: the Vascular Tissue Challenge and New Organ Liver Prize team rosters; existing New Organ Alliance Road Map Committee members; participants in past workshops sponsored by NSF, Wake Forest, or CASIS; and other key members of academia, industry, and government. The workshop is expected to leverage new relationships for additional prizes and challenges on the bioengineering pathways toward ending the organ shortage. Ultimately, the workshop will help advance the goal of making regenerated, engineered organs and tissues available to patients who need them.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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This award resulted in the production of a 2.5 day scientific workshop in which 110 academics, industry professionalist, and government leaders came together to identify, characterize, and review specific scientific and technical hurdles toward creating bioengineered solutions to ending the organ shortage.
A "Bioengineering Road-map to ending the Organ Shortage" was updated with additional information from the audience, research surveys, and committee meetings. 13 Overarching Challenge topics were refined including over 60 sub-challenge items defining specific milestones for each topic.
The resulting road-map that has been produced through this workshop and subsequent committee meetings is continuing to be used to accelerate innovative research and collaborations that incorporate potentially enabling technologies into bioengineering research. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, computational modeling and mapping, microgravity, and cryopreservation were also discussed and included in the road-map to help accelerate innovative bioengineering research.
The resulting road-map is being hosted on the New Organ Alliance website and is being prepared through additional committee work for conversion into a dynamic database of information for the entire research community. When converted to the upcoming database version of the road-map, it will allow for the research community to better identify innovative collaborations and highlight key enabling technologies to advance bioengineering solutions to the identified challenges toward engineering new tissues and organs for patients in need.
Last Modified: 01/31/2019
Modified by: Josh Neubert
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