Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference

项目描述（由申请人提供）：为“温斯坦心血管发展会议”的连续年度研究会议申请5年的部分资助。这是该国心血管发展的首要会议，汇集了在该领域工作的每个主要实验室的代表。会议在特定研究小组的组织下轮流举行，并强调年轻研究人员的演讲。参加2001年会议的有55%是博士，25%是医学博士，20%是研究生。会议的目的是讨论心脏和血管发展领域的最新研究成果和合作发展。这些会议的主题包括心脏形态学、心脏功能、人类心血管缺陷遗传学、实验心血管胚胎学、肌肉细胞组织、心血管系统中基因表达的调控等。转基因和非转基因小鼠模型。人权机构的继续援助将为学生提供更多的机会，继续改进这些会议的年度规划，并增加妇女和少数民族在会议发言人中的代表性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Partial support is requested for 5 years for a continuing annual research conference entitled the "Weinstein Conference on Cardiovascular Development". This is the premier meeting in the country for cardiovascular development and brings together representatives from every major laboratory working in this area. The meetings rotate under the organization of specific research groups and emphasize presentations by younger investigators. The participants at the 2001 meeting were 55% Ph.D.s, 25% M.D.s and 20% graduate students. The goals of the meeting are the discussion of the most current research results and development of collaborations in the area of heart and vascular development. Topics included in these conferences include cardiac morphology, cardiac function, genetics of human cardiovascular defects, experimental cardiovascular embryology, muscle cell organization, regulation of gene expression in the cardiovascular system,.transgenic and null mouse models. Continued assistance by the NHLBI would provide increased accessibility for students, continued improvement in year to year planning for these meetings and increase the representation of women and minorities among conference speakers.