ASTHMA PATIENT EDUCATION PROGRAM

乔治敦大学免疫学跨学科研究中心 作为大学的一个功能认可的单位，并已整合 研究、教育和病人护理以及社区项目 外联、技术转让和教育。 总体方案建议 由37名高级研究人员组成，代表了几个基础科学， 临床学科（生理学，微生物学，病毒学，免疫遗传学， 计算机科学，医学，肺病学，肾病学，风湿病学， 移植，传染病和社区医学），所有这些人 将他们的专业知识和资源集中在目前的CIRID赠款中， 提议 该计划的组成部分包括现有的 行政和核心设施，不仅提供临床和 实验室资源，以支持拟议的项目，但也 拟议项目的行政框架 进行。 该提案被视为加强 正在进行的项目，以及研究新的研究项目。 CIRID 支持加强了基础和临床研究者之间的联系 对过敏和免疫介导的疾病感兴趣， 提供了持续的互动和合作， 免疫学中心的跨学科矩阵。 五个方案领域 本提案中提出了七个项目， 中心研究人员的深入意见，他们已经准备好了他们的建议 非常详细。 在某些情况下，这些项目已有CIRID支持 申请的资金将用于扩大这些项目， 引进由新线索和新想法产生的新项目。 本提案中提出的七个项目反映了 和免疫学跨学科中心的专业知识范围， 乔治城和范围从项目处理的发展 作为潜在疫苗的温度敏感生物， 吞噬细胞的功能在新生儿，以获得性的问题， 免疫缺陷综合征（艾滋病）在某些选定的人口和 研究自然杀伤细胞（NK）功能在免疫调节中的作用。 此外，为了纳入研究计划，该提案 显著扩大了其社区外联、技术转让和 教育计划，包括针对儿童的教育计划 哮喘，以及教育和降低风险的计划， 艾滋病

The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Immunology at Georgetown exists as a functionally recognized unit of the University and has integrated programs in research, education and patient care, as well as in community outreach, technology transfer and education. The overall proposed program consists of 37 senior investigators representing several basic science and clinical disciplines (physiology, microbiology, virology, immunogenetics, computer sciences, medicine, pulmonology, nephrology, rheumatology, transplantation, infectious diseases and community medicine), all of whom have pooled their expertise and resources in the present CIRID grant proposal. Integral parts of the program include the existing administrative and core facilities which provide not only the clinical and laboratory resources in support of the proposed projects, but also the administrative framework within which the proposed projects will be conducted. The proposal is viewed as an opportunity to strengthen the ongoing projects as well as to institute new research projects. The CIRID support has enhanced the ties between basic and clinical investigators interested in allergic and immunologically mediated diseases and has provided continuing interaction and collaboration within the interdisciplinary matrix of the Immunology Center. The five program areas and seven projects are presented in this proposal which describe the indepth views of the Center investigators who have prepared their proposal in great detail. In some cases, the projects have existing CIRID support and the funds requested will be used to expand these as well as to introduce new projects which have resulted from new leads and new ideas. The seven projects presented in the present proposal reflect the breadth and scope of the expertise of the Interdisciplinary Center in Immunology at Georgetown and range from projects dealing with the development of temperature-sensitive organisms as potential vaccine, to studies of phagocytic cell function in the neonate, to the problem of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in certain selected populations and the studies of the role of natural killer (NK) function in immunoregulation. In addition, to be included in the research programs, the proposal has significantly expanded its community outreach, technology transfer and education programs to include educational programs directed to childhood asthma, as well as to education and risk reduction programs directed at AIDS.