30th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS

第 30 届非人类灵长类艾滋病模型年度研讨会

• 批准号: 8399832
• 负责人: Thomas Folks
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8399832
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; African; Animal Model; Anti-HIV Agents; Applications Grants; Area; Basic Science; Biology; Biomedical Research; Blinded; Collaborations; Committee Members; Country; Data; Development; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education and Outreach; Ensure; Event; Experimental Designs; Fees; Funding; Genetic; Genomics; Goals; Grant; HIV; HIV vaccine; Herpesviridae; Human; Human Resources; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; Immunology; International; Journals; Kaposi Sarcoma; Knowledge; Lentivirus Infections; Life; Light; Location; Manuscripts; Medical; Methods; Modeling; Natural Resistance; Oral; Participant; Pathogenesis; Population; Prevention; Primate Lentiviruses; Primates; Public Health; Publications; Recombinants; Request for Applications; Research; Research Institute; SIV; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; Selection Criteria; Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Simian Retroviruses; Study models; Teaching Materials; Testing; Texas; Therapeutic; Translational Research; United States; Vaccines; Viral; Viral Pathogenesis; Virus; Virus Diseases; abstracting; cost; follow-up; high school; knowledge base; lectures; meetings; member; microbicide; model development; nonhuman primate; originality; pandemic disease; posters; prevent; programs; simian human immunodeficiency virus; success; symposium; teacher; transmission process; vaccine development; virology; virus host interaction

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting funds to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 30th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS, hosted by the Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute. We anticipate that the symposium will be held October 24-27, 2012, at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. This meeting is the only forum that exclusively encompasses the most recent scientific advances in AIDS research utilizing nonhuman primate models. The latest findings in primate pathogenesis, immunology, genomics, virology, vaccine development, and therapeutics will be presented. More than 300 scientists from the United States and other countries are expected to attend. The symposium program will include five half-day scientific sessions and a poster session. An invited speaker will give a keynote address on scientific approaches and concerns regarding the AIDS pandemic. A Scientific Program Committee of sixteen members representing a broad geographic and institutional distribution will review submitted abstracts in a blinded fashion and assign oral or poster presentations for each of the scientific sessions; committee members include leaders in the field from a variety of scientific disciplines. Criteria for selection of oral presentations wil include scientific relevance of the topic as well as originality and quality. The sessions will address the following areas: Virus-host Interactions/Genomics; Natural Host/New Models; Pathogenesis/Early Events; Therapy/Microbicides; and Vaccines/Immunology. An invited Chair will give a state-of-the-art presentation to open each session; a co-Chair will moderate the session and entertain questions; and ten scientists will give oral presentations rigorously selected from submitted abstracts. Authors giving talks will be invited to submit their presentations in manuscript form for publication in the special conference issue of the Journal of Medical Primatology. A poster session will include meritorious presentations that cannot be accommodated in one of the platform sessions. The conference will include an opening reception, a reception accompanying the poster session, and an evening banquet at a convenient and enjoyable San Antonio location. In addition to any R13 grant support, registration fees and corporate sponsorship will be collected to defray costs and fund the symposium. The symposium will offer an educational outreach training session with local high school science teachers; the session will provide strategies and course materials for teaching about HIV/AIDS and biomedical research, particularly research using animal models. The 2012 meeting was first announced at the October 2011 meeting in Seattle, and follow-up invitations will be distributed in early spring 2012. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): HIV and AIDS represent a critical threat to public health in the United States and internationally. This annual symposium contributes to expanding the knowledge base that will ultimately result in a vaccine to prevent transmission of HIV and treatments for those currently living with AIDS.

描述(由申请者提供)：我们正在申请资金，以支付计划、组织、宣传和主办第30届艾滋病非人类灵长类模型年度研讨会的部分费用，该研讨会由德克萨斯州生物医学研究所西南国家灵长类研究中心主办。我们预计研讨会将于2012年10月24-27日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的威斯汀河滨酒店举行。这次会议是唯一一个专门讨论利用非人类灵长类动物模型进行艾滋病研究的最新科学进展的论坛。将介绍灵长类发病机制、免疫学、基因组学、病毒学、疫苗开发和治疗学的最新发现。预计将有来自美国和其他国家的300多名科学家参加。研讨会计划包括五个半天的科学会议和一个海报会议。一位受邀的演讲者将就科学方法和对艾滋病大流行的关切发表主旨演讲。一个由16名成员组成的科学计划委员会将以盲目的方式审查提交的摘要，并为每一次科学会议分配口头或海报陈述；委员会成员包括来自不同科学学科的该领域的领导人。选择口头报告的标准将包括主题的科学相关性以及原创性和质量。这些会议将讨论以下领域：病毒-宿主相互作用/基因组学；自然宿主/新模式；致病/早期事件；治疗/杀微生物剂；以及疫苗/免疫学。一名特邀主席将在每届会议开幕时作最先进的陈述；一名联合主席将主持会议并提出问题；十名科学家将从提交的摘要中严格挑选出口头陈述。演讲的作者将被邀请以手稿的形式提交他们的演讲，并在《医学灵长类动物学杂志》的特别会议上发表。海报会议将包括平台会议无法容纳的有功陈述。会议将包括开幕式招待会，伴随海报会议的招待会，以及在一个方便和愉快的圣安东尼奥地点举行的晚宴。除了R13资助外，还将收取注册费和企业赞助，以支付费用和资助研讨会。研讨会将为当地高中科学教师提供教育外展培训课程；该课程将提供有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病和生物医学研究，特别是使用动物模型进行研究的教学战略和课程材料。2012年会议最初是在2011年10月在西雅图举行的会议上宣布的，后续邀请将于2012年初春分发。 公共卫生相关性(由申请者提供)：艾滋病毒和艾滋病是对美国和国际公共卫生的严重威胁。这一年度研讨会有助于扩大知识库，最终将产生预防艾滋病毒传播的疫苗和目前艾滋病患者的治疗方法。