International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Soc

描述（由申请人提供）：作为下一届国际糖尿病免疫学学会（IDS）会议的联合主席，Eisenbarth博士向美国国立卫生研究院提交了一份赠款，用于IDS会议的会议支持。第六届国际糖尿病免疫学会议将于2002年10月3-6日在科罗拉多的铜山举行。这是一个为期4天的会议，预计将有来自世界各地的约400名代表参加。IDS是糖尿病免疫学各个方面的国际论坛：发病机制，预测，预防，遗传学等国际会议每1至2年举行一次。本次会议的重点是通过专题讨论会和全体会议介绍相关领域的最新信息。将有一个在人类和动物模型中的自身抗体的讨论，以及一个关于人类1型糖尿病发病的特别会议。糖尿病免疫学界将通过分享免疫学、遗传学和自身免疫等其他领域的最新进展信息而受益匪浅。这笔赠款用于支付出席会议的代表的旅费，并帮助为应邀发言者提供津贴。超过一半的资金将用于为年轻的研究人员提供旅行奖学金。青年研究者的旅费赠款将通过对提交的摘要进行数字评分来选择，额外的旅费将用于国际组织委员会选择的全体会议演讲。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As co-chairman of the next international Immunology of Diabetes Society (IDS) meeting, Dr. Eisenbarth is submitting a grant to the National Institutes of Health for meeting support of the IDS meeting. The 6th International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society is being held in Copper Mountain, Colorado between October 3-6, 2002. This is a 4 day meeting that is expected to be attended by approximately 400 delegates from all over the world. The IDS is an international forum for all aspects of diabetes immunology: pathogenesis, prediction, prevention, genetics, etc. International meetings are held every 1 to 2 years. For this meeting we are focusing on presenting, through symposia and plenary talks, state of the art information within related fields. There will be a discussion of autoantibodies in both human and animal models in a workshop setting as well as a special session on type 1 diabetes onset in humans. The diabetes immunology community will benefit much by sharing of information in the newest advances in other fields of immunology, genetics, and autoimmunity. This grant is sought to support the travel of delegates attending this conference and help provide stipends for invited speakers. More than half of the funding will provide travel scholarships to young investigators. Travel grants for young investigators will be chosen by numerical rating of submitted abstracts and additional travel funding will be applied to plenary lectures chosen by the international organizing committee.