American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair

描述（由申请人提供）：此R13申请寻求美国神经治疗和修复学会（ASNTR）年会的资金。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。 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。出席这次会议的登记者在125至200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，排名最高的申请人获得旅行奖，以支付他们参加会议和旅行的费用。ASNTR一直高度重视为学生和博士后研究员提供旅行奖励。在过去，ASNTR已经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已经看到这些捐款减少，虽然ASNTR将继续寻求私营部门的资金，我们预计在未来几年内捐款不会超过最近的水平。此申请要求32，300美元的直接费用，以支持来自美国申请机构的前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;总共20，000美元），支持PI参加会议的差旅费（1000美元），主旨发言人参加会议的差旅费（1300美元），方案印刷费（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).