American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair

描述(由申请人提供)：此R13申请为美国神经治疗与修复学会(ASNTR)的年度会议寻求资金。ASNTR自1994年成立以来，每年4月/5月在佛罗里达州克利尔沃特召开会议。会上通过平台和海报演示讨论了帕金森病、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在其所有会议上都侧重于治疗战略。因此，学生和博士后不仅学习基础科学，还学习翻译问题，然后真正听到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。本次会议的参会者从125人到200人不等。每年，ASNTR教育委员会鼓励学生/博士后在比赛中提交摘要，排名最高的申请者将获得旅行奖励，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。过去，ASNTR收到了生物技术公司和非营利组织的捐款，用于支付这些旅行奖项，然而，ASNTR近年来看到这些捐款有所减少，尽管ASNTR将继续从私营部门寻求资金，但我们预计未来几年的捐款不会超过最近的水平。本申请申请的直接费用总额为32,300美元，用于支持申请机构为排名前20位的研究生/博士后提供的旅行奖励(每个学生/博士后奖励1000美元；总计20,000美元)、支持PI出席会议的旅费(1000美元)、主旨发言人出席会议的旅费(1300美元)、项目印刷费(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).