Retinal Degeneration Conference

视网膜变性会议

• 批准号: 8319141
• 负责人: ROBERT E ANDERSON
• 金额: $ 7.81万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-21 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8319141
• 关键词: Age related macular degeneration; Award; Basic Science; Berlin; Books; Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Creativeness; Degenerative Disorder; Development; Disease; Environment; Ethnic group; Eye; Feedback; Funding; Future; Gene Mutation; Gene Transduction Agent; Genes; Germany; Goals; Immune system; Individual; Inherited; International; Knowledge; Mind; Mutation; Natural Immunity; Ophthalmologist; Participant; Pathological Staging; Pathology; Play; Publishing; RPE65 protein; Regulation; Research; Research Personnel; Retinal Degeneration; Retinal Diseases; Retinitis Pigmentosa; Role; Scientist; Societies; Time; Translational Research; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; Vision; Vision research; Woman; Work; acquired immunity; age related; base; career; early onset; lecturer; lectures; meetings; novel; novel therapeutic intervention; planetary Atmosphere; posters; programs; social; symposium; unpublished works

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a request for funds to support the XVth International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration (RD2012) to be held in Bad G¿gging, Bavaria, Germany July 16 - 21, 2012. This meeting is a satellite of the XXth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER), to be held in Berlin, Germany July 22 - 27, 2012. The RD2012 meeting will be focused on the role of innate and acquired immunity in the initiation and progression of retinal degenerative diseases. The recent discovery that mutations in genes related to regulation of the immune system, specifically innate immunity, are responsible for 75% of age- related macular degeneration (AMD) demonstrates the important role the immune system plays in this disease. In fact, there is increasing recognition of the active participation of the immune system in many forms of retinal degeneration, either a primarily cause, as appears to be the case in most forms of AMD, or during the degenerative pathological stages that take place in many of the early onset forms of retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The Specific Aims of the XVth International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration are: 1. To enhance the emerging careers of 20 young investigators (including women and underrepresented minorities) in retinal degeneration research by providing travel awards. 2. To provide a forum for dissemination of the most recent advances in the state of knowledge on the pathophysiologic mechanisms of acquired, inherited, and age-related retinal degenerations, and new therapeutic approaches. 3. To create an environment that will facilitate the exchange of novel ideas among basic and clinician scientists and generate the opportunity for vision scientists of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds to meet and establish research collaborations 4. To organize a program focused on the role of the immune system in retinal degenerations. The requested funds will support the travel of 20 young investigators and 3 invited plenary lecturers, plus some modest administrative expenses. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This meeting brings together the leading researchers, clinician-scientists, and ophthalmologists from around the world to discuss their research in a relaxed and collegial atmosphere. The travel awardees will have an opportunity afforded by no other scientific meeting of its type to meet and interact with these outstanding scientists. There is ample evidence that this conference has had profound effects on the scientific careers of many of the young scientists who attended.

说明（由申请人提供）：本申请是为支持将于 2012 年 7 月 16 日至 21 日在德国巴伐利亚州巴德格格举行的第十五届国际视网膜变性研讨会 (RD2012) 申请资金。本次会议是将于 2012 年 7 月 22 日至 27 日在德国柏林举行的国际眼科研究学会 (ISER) 第 20 届双年度会议的附属会议。 RD2012会议将于 重点研究先天性和获得性免疫在视网膜退行性疾病的发生和进展中的作用。最近发现，与免疫系统调节相关的基因突变，特别是先天免疫，导致了 75% 的年龄相关性黄斑变性 (AMD)，这表明免疫系统在这种疾病中发挥着重要作用。事实上，人们越来越认识到免疫系统在许多形式的视网膜变性中的积极参与，这要么是大多数形式的 AMD 的主要原因，要么是在许多早期发病形式的色素性视网膜炎 (RP) 的退行性病理阶段。第十五届视网膜变性国际研讨会的具体目标是： 1. 通过提供旅行奖励，促进 20 名年轻研究者（包括女性和代表性不足的少数群体）在视网膜变性研究中的新兴职业生涯。 2. 提供一个论坛，传播有关获得性、遗传性和年龄相关性视网膜变性的病理生理机制的最新知识进展以及新的治疗方法。 3. 创造一个环境，促进基础科学家和临床科学家之间的新思想交流，并为所有种族和社会背景的视觉科学家创造见面和建立研究合作的机会 4. 组织一个重点关注免疫系统在视网膜变性中的作用的计划。所申请的资金将用于支持 20 名年轻研究人员和 3 名特邀全体讲师的旅费，以及一些适度的行政费用。 公共卫生相关性：本次会议汇集了来自世界各地的顶尖研究人员、临床科学家和眼科医生，在轻松的学院氛围中讨论他们的研究。旅行获奖者将有机会与这些杰出的科学家见面并互动，这是其他同类科学会议所没有的。有充分证据表明，这次会议对许多与会的年轻科学家的科学事业产生了深远的影响。