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

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一项资助神经免疫药理学学会(SNIP)第13-17届会议的提案。下一届(第13届)SNIP大会将于2007年4月10日至15日在犹他州盐湖城举行，其他会议将于2008-2011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)入侵中枢神经系统(CNS)，并促进神经艾滋病和相关神经疾病的发展。研讨会将讨论与艾滋病毒相关的广泛病理，包括那些涉及影响免疫受损宿主的机会性病原体的病理。由SNIP计划委员会挑选的演讲将讨论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，并特别强调翻译相关性。第13届大会的议题包括：粘膜免疫与艾滋病毒、神经艾滋病与中枢神经系统机会性感染、阿片类药物与败血症、药物滥用与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重要重点，将向介绍其研究结果的大约20名研究生和博士后研究员颁发青年研究人员奖。此外，还专门举办了一次海报展示活动，由年轻的调查人员进行介绍。为宣传会议的成果，每个专题讨论会的主席将撰写一份所涉主题的概述，作为各自会议上发言者的选定简要文件的序言。论文将接受同行评审，并在被接受后作为神经免疫药理学杂志(JNIP)的一卷发表，该杂志是SNIP的官方期刊，促进中枢神经系统药理学和免疫学的新的重要发现的传播、兴趣和交流。会议计划委员会和会议场地的结构确保了组织者、演讲者和会议参与者之间的种族和性别多样性。该协会有一个网站www.s-nip.org；，该网站宣传会议，便利与会者登记和会议旅行安排，并报告在会议上提出的重要成果。总体而言，网站、小册子邮件和个人联系人应保证广泛传播有关会议的信息，并保证公布结果。

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.