Frontiers in the Amelioration of Heaing Loss Conference

本申请要求部分支持由中央聋人研究所主办的“改善听力损失新领域”会议，该研究所是圣路易斯华盛顿大学的附属机构，是为了纪念詹姆斯·d·米勒博士。本次会议为不同领域的临床医生、科学家和工程师提供了一个难得的机会，让他们聚集在一起，分享他们最新的研究成果。提议的会议将反映当前的最新技术和未来的发展，在四个主要领域：毛细胞再生和发育，感觉细胞保护和救援，感觉辅助，听觉处理和康复。会议的主要目的之一是将研究感觉细胞的基本细胞和分子机制的生物学家与研究感觉辅助和治疗的特点和发展的临床科学家和工程师聚集在一起。希望能够促进对话，信息和最新发现的传递，并强调有可能应用于听力损失治疗的研究机会。提议的会议将包括邀请演讲和讨论，教程和贡献的海报会议。跨学科的教程将被用来教育基础科学家、临床科学家和工程师。会议记录将由同行评议并发表在《耳朵与听力》杂志上。组委会由一组在会议的四个主要领域建立良好的调查人员组成，并由会议协调员协助。一个国际公认的科学家小组为组委会提供建议。为了鼓励新的和年轻的研究者，将向研究生和博士后颁发30个奖学金。拟议的会议将在适当地点通过邮政和电子邮件、公告和海报进行宣传。

This application requests partial support for a conference on New Frontiers in the Amelioration of Hearing Loss hosted by the Central Institute for the Deaf, an affiliate of Washington University in St. Louis, and in honor of Dr. James D. Miller. This conference provides a rare opportunity for clinicians, scientists and engineers in widely disparate fields to come together and share their latest research findings. The proposed conference will reflect the current state-of-the-art and project future developments in four major areas: hair cell regeneration and development, sensory cell protection and rescue, sensory aids, and auditory processing and rehabilitation. One of the major aims of the proposed conference is to bring together biologists who study basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of sensory cells with clinical scientists and engineers who are working on the characteristics and development of sensory aids and treatments. The hope is to facilitate dialogue, the transfer of information and the latest findings as well as to highlight opportunities for research that have potential applications to the treatment of hearing loss. The proposed conference will include invited presentations and discussions, tutorials, and contributed poster sessions. Cross-disciplinary tutorials will be used to educate both basic scientists and clinical scientists and engineers. Conference proceedings will be peer reviewed and published in an issue of Ear and Hearing. The organizing committee consists of a group of well established investigators in the four major areas of the conference and is assisted by a conference coordinator. An internationally recognized panel of scientists advises the organizing committee. In order to encourage new and young investigators, 30 scholarships will be awarded to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The proposed conference will be advertised through postal and electronic mailings, announcements and posters at appropriate places.