American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair

描述（由申请人提供）：本R13申请为美国神经治疗与修复学会（ASNTR）年会寻求资金。自1994年成立以来，ASNTR每年4月/ 5月在佛罗里达州克利尔沃特召开一次会议。在会议上，通过平台和海报展示讨论了移植和基因治疗应用于帕金森病、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领域的各种研究进展。ASNTR在其所有会议中都侧重于治疗策略。因此，学生和博士后不仅学习基础科学，他们还学习转化问题，然后实际听取基础科学家和临床医生讨论的临床结果。因此，ASNTR确实是一次独特的聚会。出席本次会议的人数在125-200人之间。每年，ASNTR教育委员会都会鼓励学生/博士后在竞赛中提交他们的摘要，排名靠前的申请人将获得旅行奖励，以支付他们参加会议和旅行的费用。ASNTR一直高度重视资助学生和博士后研究员的旅行奖励。在过去，ASNTR收到了来自生物技术公司和非营利组织的捐款来支付这些旅行奖励，然而，近年来ASNTR看到这些捐款减少了，尽管ASNTR将继续从私营部门寻求资金，但我们预计未来几年的捐款不会比最近的水平有所增加。该申请要求直接费用总额为32,300美元，用于支持申请美国机构的前20名研究生/博士后的旅行奖励（每名学生/博士后奖励1000美元；总计20,000美元），支持Pi前往会议的旅行（1000美元），主题演讲者前往会议的旅行（1300美元），程序打印费用（3500美元）和会议协调员咨询费（6500美元）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 application seeks funding for the annual meeting of the American Society for Neural Therapy 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. ASNTR focuses on treatment strategies throughout all its sessions. Thus, students and postdocs not only learn the basic sciences, they also learn translational issues, and then actually hear the clinical outcomes discussed by basic scientists and clinicians. Therefore, ASNTR is truly a unique gathering. Attendance of this meeting ranges between 125-200 registrants. Each year the ASNTR Education Committee encourages students/postdocs to submit their abstracts in a competition and the top rated applicants 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. 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 $32,300 in total direct costs to support travel awards for the top 20 graduate students/postdocs from US institutions that apply (awards of $1000 per student/postdoc; $20,000 total), support for the Pi's travel to the conference ($1000), the Keynote Speaker's travel to the conference ($1300), program printing costs ($3500) and conference coordinator consultation costs ($6500).