American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair

描述（由申请人提供）：此R13申请寻求资金，以支持研究生/博士后研究员旅行奖的美国神经移植和修复学会（ASNTR）的年会。 自1994年成立以来，ASNTR每年4月/5月在佛罗里达的克利尔沃特召开会议。 在会议上，通过平台和海报展示，讨论了帕金森病、亨廷顿病、阿尔茨海默病、中风、脊髓损伤和创伤性脑损伤等神经退行性疾病的移植和基因治疗领域的各种研究进展。 出席这次会议的登记人数在150至250人之间。 每年ASNTR教育委员会鼓励学生/博士后在比赛中提交他们的摘要，排名最高的学生/博士后获得旅行奖，以支付他们参加会议和旅行的费用。 ASNTR一直高度重视为在年度会议上展示其科学发现的学生和博士后研究员提供旅行奖励。 随着神经移植和修复领域的不断扩大，我们认为支持学生和博士后是至关重要的，这样他们就可以参加这次会议，并与他们研究领域的领导者分享他们最近的科学发现。 过去，ASNTR收到了来自生物技术公司和非营利组织的捐款，以支付这些旅行奖励。 然而，近年来ASNTR看到这些捐款减少，尽管ASNTR将继续从私营部门寻求资金，但我们预计未来几年捐款不会超过最近的水平。 该申请要求直接费用总额为15，000美元，以支持来自美国申请机构的前15名研究生/博士后的旅行奖励（每位学生/博士后奖励1000美元）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 application seeks funding to support graduate student/postdoctoral fellow travel awards to the annual meeting of the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair (ASNTR). Since its founding in 1994, the ASNTR has convened yearly each April/May in Clearwater, Florida. At the meeting various research advances in the fields of transplantation and gene therapy applied to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury are discussed via platform and poster presentations. Attendance of this meeting ranges between 150-250 registrants. Each year the ASNTR Education Committee encourages students/postdocs to submit their abstracts in a competition and the top rated students/postdocs receive travel awards to cover the cost of their meeting attendance and travel. ASNTR has always placed a high priority on funding travel awards for students and post-doctoral fellows presenting their scientific findings at the yearly conference. As the field of neural transplantation and repair continues to expand we feel that it is critical to support students and postdocs so that they may attend this meeting and share their recent scientific findings with leaders in their field of research. In the past ASNTR has received donations from biotech companies and non-profit organizations to cover these travel awards. However, in recent years ASNTR has seen these contributions dwindle and although ASNTR will continue to seek funding from the private sector, we do not anticipate any increase in contributions above recent levels in the coming years. This application requests $15,000 in total direct costs to support travel awards for the top 15 graduate students/postdocs from US institutions that apply (awards of $1000 per student/postdoc).