REM: Biomaterials and Bioprinting Summer (BBS) School

REM：生物材料和生物打印暑期（BBS）学校

• 批准号: 2208152
• 负责人: Syam Nukavarapu
• 金额: $ 10.99万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2208152&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REM; Biomaterials; Bioprinting; Summer; BBS

This award will enable the Principal Investigator (PI) to support a Biomaterials and Bioprinting Summer (BBS) school research and mentoring program for underrepresented minorities students in STEM. The summer school is designed to provide high school students and undergraduates with hands-on research experience and focused training and mentoring in the emerging field of tissue engineering. The hierarchy-based learning environment involves the principle investigator, graduate students and undergraduates along with new recruits to develop strategies to design biomaterial structures, create tissues and tissue interfaces. Participants will be provided with a tool kit of elementary working knowledge on biomaterials, bioprinting and cells with an intention to build engineered tissue prototypes and technology. During the summer, the participants will implement new designs and strategies to develop tissue-based biomaterials and bio-inks that can be used to develop engineered tissue prototypes.The project will focus on promoting diversity in engineering, science and technology and will use a mentorship approach that involves providing research experience as well as mentoring participants in professional development, scientific writing, and communications skills development. The PI and graduate student mentors will co-ordinate the research and mentoring plans for the participants that will be individually tailored to each participant’s academic level and skills. Participants of this project will bring new knowledge and demos of prototypes to the classroom that will serve as a tool to create awareness in science and engineering technologies. The immediate benefits would include promotion of STEM careers and address long-term workforce diversity issues in the biomedical science/ engineering related areas. This award seeks to implement a successful mentoring program and create laboratory mentoring demonstrations to attract minority/women students in STEM careers, with a focus on focus on introducing the many career paths that come under the broad area of Biomedical Sciences, Engineering, and technology development.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.

该奖项将使首席研究员 (PI) 能够支持针对 STEM 领域代表性不足的少数族裔学生的生物材料和生物打印暑期 (BBS) 学校研究和指导计划。该暑期学校旨在为高中生和本科生提供实践研究经验。组织工程新兴领域的重点培训和指导将包括主要研究人员、研究生和本科生以及新招募的人员，以制定设计生物材料结构、创建组织和组织界面的策略。和生物材料、生物打印和细胞的基本工作知识工具包，旨在构建工程组织原型和技术。在夏季，参与者将实施新的设计和策略，以开发可使用的基于组织的生物材料和生物墨水。开发工程组织原型。该项目将侧重于促进工程、科学和技术的多样性，并将采用指导方法，包括提供研究经验以及指导参与者的专业发展、科学写作和沟通技能发展。研究生导师将协调参与者的研究和指导计划，这些计划将根据每个参与者的学术水平和技能进行单独定制。该项目的参与者将把新知识和原型演示带入课堂，作为提高认识的工具。直接的好处包括促进 STEM 职业并解决生物医学科学/工程相关领域的长期劳动力多样性问题。该奖项旨在实施成功的指导计划并创建实验室指导示范，以吸引少数族裔/女性。从事 STEM 职业的学生，重点介绍生物医学科学、工程和技术开发广泛领域下的许多职业道路。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持影响审查标准。