TENTH CONGRESS: INT SOC. BIOMED. RES. ALCOHOLISM

本申请要求提供资金，用于支付美国科学家（受邀演讲者和年轻/新研究人员）参加国际酒精中毒生物医学研究学会（ISBRA）第十届大会的部分差旅费和会议相关费用。 这次会议将于2000年7月2日至8日在日本横滨举行。 ISBRA大会是目前唯一一个全世界范围的酒精研究领域的科学会议。除了生物医学方面，它们还涵盖生物行为和临床研究。 ISBRA大会每两年举行一次，自ISBRA成立以来，会议已在德国、美国、芬兰、日本、加拿大、英国、澳大利亚和丹麦举行。这将是自1988年以来ISBRA大会第二次在日本举行。 这不仅将对日本的酒精研究产生重大影响，而且将对包括澳大利亚和新西兰在内的其他太平洋沿岸国家以及亚洲次大陆国家产生重大影响。 这项计划的制定是为了尽可能地补充将于前一周在科罗拉多丹佛举行的美国酒精中毒研究学会2000年年会的计划。 它将突出国际酒精研究界优先关注的主题，并为讨论合作研究提供机会。 目前，ISBRA 57%的成员来自美国。 因此，美国科学家的出席对会议的成功至关重要; 95位受邀演讲者中有47位来自美国。该申请要求提供资金，用于30名受邀演讲者的差旅费和登记费，27名年轻/新调查员的差旅费、登记费和部分生活费，以及大会议事录的部分出版费用。

This application requests funds for the partial payment of travel and conference-related expenses of US scientists (invited speakers and young/new investigators) to attend the Tenth Congress of the International Society for Biomedical Research in Alcoholism (ISBRA). This meeting will be held in Yokohama, Japan, July 2-8, 2000. The ISBRA Congresses are now the only world-wide scientific meetings for all areas of alcohol research. In addition to biomedical aspects, they also cover biobehavioral and clinical research. The ISBRA Congresses are held biennially and, since the founding of ISBRA, meetings have been held in Germany, USA, Finland, Japan, Canada, UK, Australia, and Denmark. This will be the second time since 1988 that the ISBRA Congress will be held in Japan. It will have a large impact on alcohol research not only in Japan but also the other Pacific rim countries including Australia and New Zealand and the Asian subcontinent countries. The program has been developed to complement as much as possible the program of the Year 2000 Annual Meeting of the US-based Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), to be held the week before in Denver, Colorado. It will feature topics of priority interest to the international alcohol research community and provide opportunities for discussion of collaborative research. At the present, 57 percent of the ISBRA membership is US-based. Accordingly, attendance by US scientists is absolutely essential for the success of the meeting; 47 of the 95 proposed invited speakers will be from the USA. This application requests funding for travel and registration fee for 30 invited speakers, travel, registration fee and partial living expenses for 27 young/new investigators and partial coverage of publication costs of the Congress proceedings.