2006 NF Consortium for NF1, NF2 and Schwannomatosis

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求为儿童肿瘤基金会NF 1、NF 2和神经鞘瘤病分子和细胞生物学国际联盟2006年年会提供资金支持。 会议将于2006年6月4日至7日在科罗拉多白杨的杰罗姆酒店举行。 自1985年成立以来，该年会已经取得了丰硕的成果，它作为NF社区研究人员和临床医生的首要年度聚会发挥着关键作用。 该会议是一个为来自世界各地的研究人员提供研究信息交流和讨论的论坛，传统上促进了合作，建立共识，并在临床试验中达到顶峰的转化研究的进展。 这是一个从基础到临床的许多方面的NF研究取得巨大进展的时代，这反映在2006年会议的主题-“进展：从实验室到床边”。 五个单独的会议将采取从NF的分子机制，通过翻译模型的临床治疗的联盟。 演讲者将包括初级和高级研究人员。 为了与长椅到床边的主题保持一致，第一次选择会议将包括一个病人的生活受到NF影响的倡导者的几句话。 每一次会议还将包括一个主要的研究人员从NF研究以外的主题演讲，开辟了广泛的讨论。 有竞争力的旅行奖将带来年轻的研究人员进行口头介绍，2海报会议将允许研究人员介绍他们的工作，以NF社区。 在2006年，我们将采取两种新的方法，以提高本次会议的知名度和NF研究的状态。 首先，为了提高业界对NF的认识，我们将寻求大量制药公司的财政赞助。 奖励奖金将提供钻石，白金，黄金和银的水平。 第二，共同主席和基金会将共同努力，争取在同行评审期刊上发表联合会报告。 这将促进整个研究界的NF研究的地位，与其他癌症和神经系统疾病的联系以及需要解决的关键障碍。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funding support for the 2006 annual meeting of the Children's Tumor Foundation International Consortium for the Molecular and Cell Biology of NF1, NF2 and Schwannomatosis. The Meeting will be held June 4-7, 2006, at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado. This annual meeting has had a fruitful history since its inception in 1985, and it plays a lynchpin role as the premier annual gathering of researchers and clinicians in the NF community. The meeting is a forum for research information exchange and discussion for researchers from around the world, and has traditionally fostered collaboration, consensus building, and advances in translational research culminating in clinical trials. This is a time of tremendous advances in NF research on many fronts from basic through clinical, and this is reflected in the theme of the 2006 meeting - "Progress: From Bench to Bedside". Five individual sessions will take the Consortium from molecular mechanisms of NF through translational models to clinical therapies. Speakers will include both junior and senior researchers. In keeping with the bench to bedside theme, for the first time select sessions will include a few words from a patient advocate whose life is affected by NF. Each session will also include a keynote address by a leading investigator from outside of NF research to open up broad ranging discussions. Competitive travel awards will bring young investigators for oral presentations, and 2 poster sessions will allow investigators to present their work to the NF community. In 2006 we are taking two new approaches in order to increase the visibility of this meeting and of the state of NF research. Firstly to increase industry awareness of NF we will seek fiscal sponsorship for this meeting from a large number of pharmaceutical companies. Incentive sponsorships will be offered at diamond, platinum, gold and silver levels. Secondly, the co-chairs and the Foundation will work together to seek publication of a Consortium Report in a peer-reviewed journal. This will promote to the research community at large the status of NF research, the link with other cancers and neurological disorders and the key barriers to be addressed.