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CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | May 8, 2024 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | May 8, 2024 |
| Award Number: | 2421053 |
| 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: | May 1, 2024 |
| End Date: | October 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $24,999.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $24,999.00 |
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5586 POST RD UNIT 2 EAST GREENWICH RI US 02818-3454 (401)783-4011 |
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5586 POST RD UNIT 2 EAST GREENWICH RI US 02818-3454 |
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BioP-Biophotonics, BIOSENS-Biosensing |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
Sensors play many roles in our lives from including in diagnostics for diseases and providing real-time information on our health status through smart watches. The 2024 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar will bring together the world?s experts and early career researchers in sensors with a focus on addressing grand challenges in health monitoring and diagnostics. This conference will create an environment that promotes interactions between and learning across a diverse and global group of scientists, students, and practitioners at various stages in their careers, and lay the groundwork for advances that can impact public health on a global scale.
Sensors designed for analytical performance and usability can turn the tide of pandemics, bridge gaps in healthcare disparities, and provide insight into key biological processes. Because of the prominent roles sensors play in our lives and their potential for even further integration and future growth led by emerging applications, establishing a diverse and global community of experts to discuss outstanding challenges and the possible approaches for solving them is a key need with relevance to biomedical research, health, food security, forensics, and other disciplines with public benefit. The 2024 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Conference and Research Seminar seeks to fulfill this need in an intimate, inclusive, and scholarly setting. The audience for this conference is interdisciplinary, as solutions that ultimately impact the general public require collaboration across basic and applied sciences. Research inclusive of chemistry and physics, microbiology and immunology, biomedical and electrical engineering, human factors research, and global health will be represented at the 2024 Bioanalytical Sensors conference. Participants from industry, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and professional practitioners are integral parts of efforts to innovate and translate sensing and diagnostic technologies. The conference will highlight cutting edge topics that include point-of-care diagnostics, wearable sensors, advances in microfluidics, and remote sensing. The overall program is additionally diverse with respect to career stage, gender, ethnicity, and country of origin. Invited participants (speakers, discussion leaders, Power Hour leaders, Chairs, and Vice-Chairs) include late, mid, and early-career investigators who will all share a forum to discuss challenges, opportunities, and future applications of sensing on health and our understanding of the natural world. The conference will foster a stimulating atmosphere for objective and detailed critiques of unpublished results describing cutting edge biosensing technologies. Interactions between attendees will catalyze collaborations leading to future advances in sensing that will be disseminated broadly in the literature and also tangible, real-world solutions.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The Bioanalytical Sensors GRC was a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program included a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference was five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference had designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allowed for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field. The 2024 conference highlighted cutting edge topics that included point-of-care diagnostics, wearable sensors, advances in device design, and remote sensing. The audience for this conference was intentionally multidisciplinary and included scientists from a range of backgrounds, as solutions that ultimately impact the general public require collaboration across basic and applied sciences. Participants from industry, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and professional practitioners were integral parts of efforts to innovate and translate sensing and diagnostic technologies. Students, early career researchers, and established experts—across this wide range of disciplines—were given a forum to discuss challenges, opportunities, and future applications of sensing on health and our understanding of the natural world.
The Bioanalytical Sensors GRS provided a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators facilitated active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators. This interdisciplinary seminar aimed to bridge the gap between proof-of-concept experiments and real-world bioanalytical sensors that are impactful beyond the laboratory. The seminar program highlighted innovative approaches in device fabrication, molecular recognition, and signal transduction that enable sensitive, specific, and rapid monitoring of analytes in complex matrices. The program also focused on advancements in miniaturization, useability, and data processing which are essential for realizing the goal of robust analyte detection in the clinic, the home, and the field.
Last Modified: 12/23/2024
Modified by: Charles R Mace
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