Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders Annual Meeting

遗传性代谢紊乱学会年会

• 批准号: 7893627
• 负责人: NICOLA LONGO
• 金额: $ 1.1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-14 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7893627
• 关键词: Affect; American; Area; Arthritis; Award; Biochemistry; Blindness; Cerebral Palsy; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Congresses; Country; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Failure; Functional disorder; Funding; Goals; Growth; Heart Diseases; Hepatic; Inborn Errors of Metabolism; Individual; Inherited; International; Kidney; Mass Spectrum Analysis; Medical Genetics; Mental Retardation; Metabolic Diseases; Minority; Molecular; Neonatal Screening; Neuromuscular Diseases; Patient Care; Physicians; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Scholarship; Societies; Source; Specialist; Time; Training; Travel; United States National Institutes of Health; Woman; abstracting; college; effective therapy; meetings; programs

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): The Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD) requests support to provide scholarships for trainees to attend its annual meetings in years 2009 and 2010. The 2009 meeting will be held in conjunction with the International Congress on Inborn Errors of Metabolism in San Diego, CA, while the 2010 meeting will be held in Albuquerque, NM, in coordination with the annual meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics. Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are an important cause of mental retardation, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular disease, cardiac disorders, hepatic and renal dysfunction, arthritis, diabetes, growth failure, and blindness. As the wide clinical and molecular spectrum of these disorders is being elucidated, in part fueled by the development of tandem mass spectroscopy and the rapid expansion of newborn screening programs, the number of affected individuals is now known to be much larger than originally recognized. In addition, therapies are available for some conditions, yet few clinical trials have been performed to evaluate their efficacy. Thus, much remains to be done to better understand these severe disorders and develop effective treatments for them. For the U.S. to remain preeminent in this important area of research, it is essential to attract young investigators into the field. One effective mechanism to achieve this goal is to provide them with the opportunity to participate in the SIMD meeting, where they can explore the field and develop scientific ties to other established investigators. The SIMD meeting is held annually and participation, especially by young investigators, has been steadily increasing each year. The availability of NIH travel awards has been a major reason for this increase. Trainees seeking funding are required to submit an abstract describing original research to be presented at the meeting. The organizers anticipate submission of 40 to 50 abstracts for presentation at the annual meetings in the U.S. (2010) with two to three times that number for the international meeting (2009). Applications for travel awards will be competitively reviewed four months prior to the meeting, with the goal of making 25 annual awards of $1,000 each. Additional funds will be solicited from private sources. Women and minority applicants will be actively recruited. PROJECT NARRATIVE: The Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD) meeting will help to train new physicians to take care of patients with disorders of the body's biochemistry. There are very few such specialists in the country, and providing travel funds for new trainees to meet and present their research encourages them to remain in the field.

说明（由申请人提供）：遗传性代谢紊乱协会 (SIMD) 请求支持为学员提供奖学金，以参加其 2009 年和 2010 年年会。2009 年会议将与在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的国际先天性代谢缺陷大会同时举行，而 2010 年会议将与美国学院年会协调在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基举行医学遗传学。 先天性代谢缺陷（IEM）是导致智力低下、脑瘫、神经肌肉疾病、心脏疾病、肝肾功能障碍、关节炎、糖尿病、生长障碍和失明的重要原因。 由于这些疾病的广泛临床和分子谱正在被阐明，部分是由于串联质谱的发展和新生儿筛查计划的迅速扩大，目前已知受影响的个体数量比最初认识的要多得多。 此外，对于某些病症有可用的治疗方法，但很少有临床试验来评估其疗效。 因此，为了更好地了解这些严重疾病并开发有效的治疗方法，还有很多工作要做。 为了让美国在这一重要研究领域保持领先地位，吸引年轻研究人员进入该领域至关重要。 实现这一目标的一个有效机制是为他们提供参加 SIMD 会议的机会，在那里他们可以探索该领域并与其他知名研究人员发展科学联系。 SIMD 会议每年举行一次，参与人数，尤其是年轻研究人员的参与人数，每年都在稳步增加。 NIH 旅行奖励的提供是这一增长的主要原因。 寻求资助的学员必须提交一份摘要，描述要在会议上展示的原创研究。 组织者预计将在美国年会（2010 年）上提交 40 至 50 份摘要，这一数字是国际会议（2009 年）的两到三倍。 旅行奖励申请将在会议前四个月进行竞争性审查，目标是颁发 25 个年度奖励，每个奖励 1,000 美元。 额外资金将从私人来源筹集。 将积极招募女性和少数族裔申请人。 项目叙述：遗传代谢紊乱协会 (SIMD) 会议将帮助培训新医生来护理患有身体生化紊乱的患者。 该国这样的专家很少，为新学员提供会面和展示研究成果的旅费可以鼓励他们留在该领域。