13th-17th Conferences: Drug Abuse, Immune Modulation and AIDS

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一项资助第13 - 17届神经免疫药理学学会（SNIP）会议的提案。下一届（第13届）SNIP会议将于2007年4月10日至15日在犹他州湖城举行，其他会议将于2008年至2011年春季举行。这些会议的目的是探讨滥用药物调节神经免疫轴的过程，促进人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）侵入中枢神经系统，并有助于神经艾滋病和相关神经病的发展。专题讨论会将讨论广泛的艾滋病毒相关的病理学，包括那些涉及影响免疫受损宿主的机会性病原体。由SNIP计划委员会选择的演讲将涉及神经免疫药理学和滥用药物的基础，临床和流行病学研究的最新进展，特别强调翻译相关性。第13届会议的主题将包括：粘膜免疫和艾滋病毒，神经艾滋病和中枢神经系统机会性感染，阿片类药物和败血症，药物滥用和免疫调节，以及艾滋病毒疫苗试验。由于培训青年科学家是会议的一个关键重点，将向大约20名研究生和博士后研究员颁发青年研究员奖，他们将介绍他们的研究结果。此外，海报会议是专门由年轻的研究人员介绍。为了宣传会议的成果，各专题讨论会的主席将撰写一份所涉专题的概述，作为专题讨论会上发言者的部分简短论文的序言。论文将经过同行评审，并在接受后作为《神经免疫药理学杂志》（JNIP）的一卷出版，该杂志是SNIP的官方杂志，旨在促进CNS药理学和免疫学新的重要发现的传播，兴趣和交流。会议计划委员会和会议地点的结构，以确保组织者，发言人和与会者之间的种族和性别多样性。学会有一个网站，<www.s-nip.org>介绍会议情况，便利与会者登记和会议旅行安排，并报告会议上提出的重要成果。网站、小册子的邮寄和个人联系应共同保证广泛传播有关会议的信息，并保证公布的结果得到宣传。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to fund the 13th - 17th Conferences of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP). The next (13th) SNIP Conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah from April 10-15, 2007 while the other conferences will be held in the Spring 2008 -2011. The purpose of these meetings is to explore processes through which drugs of abuse modulate the neuroimmune axis, promote human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) invasion of the central nervous system (CNS), and contribute to the development of neuroAIDS and related neuropathies. Symposia will address the broad range of HIV-related pathologies, including those involving opportunistic pathogens that affect the immune compromised host. Presentations, selected by the SNIP Program Committee, will address the most recent advances in basic, clinical, and epidemiological research in neuroimmune pharmacology and abused drugs with particular emphasis on translational relevance. Topics at the 13th Conference will include: mucosal immunity and HIV, neuroAIDS and CNS opportunistic infections, opiates and sepsis, drug abuse and immune modulation, and HIV vaccine trials. Since training of young scientists is a critical focus of the Conference, young investigator awards will be given to approximately twenty graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who will present their findings. Also, a poster session is dedicated to presentations by young investigators. To publicize the results of the Conference, the Chairs of each symposium will write an overview of topics covered that will serve as a preface for select brief papers from presenters in their respective session. Papers will be peer-reviewed and, upon acceptance, published as a volume of the Journal on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (JNIP), the official journal of SNIP that promotes the dissemination, interest, and exchange of new and important discoveries for the pharmacology and immunology of the CNS. The Conference Program Committee and the Conference venue are structured to assure ethnic and gender diversity among organizers, speakers, and meeting participants. The Society has a web site, <www.s-nip.org> that advertises the Conference, facilitates participant registration and conference travel arrangements, and reports on significant results presented at the meeting. Collectively, the web site, brochure mailings, and personal contacts should guarantee wide dissemination of information regarding the meeting, and guarantee publicity for the published results.