9th Immunology of Diabetes Society Research Symposium

描述（由申请人提供）：作为下一届国际糖尿病免疫学学会（IDS）会议的联合主席，Schatz博士正在向美国国立卫生研究院提交一份赠款，以支持IDS会议。第九届国际糖尿病免疫学大会于2007年11月14日至18日在佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩举行。这是一个为期4天的会议，预计将有来自世界各地的约400名代表参加。国际糖尿病大会是一个涉及糖尿病免疫学各个方面的国际论坛：发病机制、预测、预防、遗传学等。国际会议每1至2年举行一次。对于这次会议，我们的重点是通过专题讨论会和全体会议，介绍相关领域的最新信息。将在研讨会上讨论人类和动物模型中的自身抗体，以及关于人类1型糖尿病发病的特别会议。糖尿病免疫学团体将受益于在免疫学、遗传学和自身免疫等其他领域最新进展的信息共享。美国国立卫生研究院申请的100%资金将用于支持年轻研究人员的旅行费用。青年研究人员的旅行经费将通过提交摘要的数字评分来选择，额外的旅行经费将用于国际组委会选择的全体演讲。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As co-chairman of the next international Immunology of Diabetes Society (IDS) meeting, Dr. Schatz is submitting a grant to the National Institutes of Health for meeting support of the IDS meeting. The 9th International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society is being held in Miami Beach, Florida from November 14th to18th, 2007. This is a 4 day meeting that is expected to be attended by approximately 400 delegates from all over the world. The IDS is an international forum for all aspects of diabetes immunology: pathogenesis, prediction, prevention, genetics, etc. International meetings are held every 1 to 2 years. For this meeting we are focusing on presenting, through symposia and plenary talks, state of the art information within related fields. There will be a discussion of autoantibodies in both human and animal models in a workshop setting as well as a special session on type 1 diabetes onset in humans. The diabetes immunology community will benefit much by sharing of information in the newest advances in other fields of immunology, genetics, and autoimmunity. One-hundred percent of the NIH funding requested will be devoted to support travel expenses for young investigators. Travel grants for young investigators will be chosen by numerical rating of submitted abstracts and additional travel funding will be applied to plenary lectures chosen by the international organizing committee.