This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research in support of this Gordon Research Conference titled "2013 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar" is cofunded by the Biomedical Engineering program in the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. This conference will focus on applying basic science and engineering principles from diverse areas including materials science and mechanical engineering and stem cell biology toward potential solving of clinically relevant biomedical problems. The program will provide cutting-edge scientific program and discussion forum that focus on specific fundamental and applied science and engineering challenges that, when overcome, will facilitate the translation of biomaterials and tissue engineering sciences to clinical medicine.
The program serves both to educate the biomaterials and tissue engineering community in the highly relevant field of developmental biology and to stimulate discussion in current approaches from materials research, engineering and biological perspectives. The conference has not only excellent geographical diversity, but also includes many women, young PIs, and industrial researchers among the invited speakers and discussion leaders. An outstanding aspect of this year's conference is the inclusion of the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for the first time for this Seminar series. This 2013 Gordon Research Conference Seminar on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering will be handled entirely by post-doctoral scientists and students. They will have opportunity to interact with leading scientists throughout the conference, and will be able to present their own work.
The Gordon Research Conference on BIOMATERIALS & TISSUE ENGINEERING was held at Holderness School, Holderness NH, July 28 – August 2, 2013. The Conference was well-attended with 180 participants (attendees list attached). The attendees represented the spectrum of endeavor in this field coming from academia, industry, and government laboratories, both U.S. and foreign scientists, senior researchers, young investigators, and students. Of the 180 attendees, 121 voluntarily responded to a general inquiry regarding ethnicity which appears on our registration forms. Of the 121 respondents, 27% were Minorities – 7% Hispanic, 16% Asian and 4% African American. Approximately 48% of the participants at the 2013 meeting were women. In designing the formal speakers program, emphasis was placed on current unpublished research and discussion of the future target areas in this field. There was a conscious effort to stimulate lively discussion about the key issues in the field today. Time for formal presentations was limited in the interest of group discussions. In order that more scientists could communicate their most recent results, poster presentation time was scheduled. Attached is a copy of the formal schedule and speaker program and the poster program. In addition to these formal interactions, "free time" was scheduled to allow informal discussions. Such discussions are fostering new collaborations and joint efforts in the field. Thank you for your support of this Conference. As you know, in the interest of promoting the presentation of unpublished and frontier-breaking research, Gordon Research Conferences does not permit publication of meeting proceedings.
