The Yin and Yang of Inflammation

描述（由申请人提供）：请求支持由特鲁多炎症阴阳研究所主办、由 Andrea Cooper、Marcia Blackman 和 Elizabeth Leadbetter 组织的会议。此次会议将于 2014 年 4 月 4 日至 6 日在纽约普莱西德湖的 High Peaks Resort 举行。许多疾病都是炎症的产物，炎症是身体对感染和组织损伤反应的一部分，也是心脏病、糖尿病、类风湿性关节炎和衰老等慢性健康问题的一个关键因素。在本次会议上，来自整个生物技术和学术框架的专家将齐聚一堂，检查和描述炎症的关键途径，将这些途径置于人类疾病的背景下，并讨论开发新靶点和治疗方法来对抗炎症疾病的进展。本次会议的目标是：1）分享对人类健康具有明显影响的炎症主题的新见解并进行讨论，2）促进学术界和生物技术行业科学家之间的对话，以建立互惠互利的互动并共享数据和实验方法，3）为学生、博士后和早期研究人员提供负担得起且易于使用的场所，并提供奖学金来抵消参加会议的费用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for a meeting sponsored by Trudeau Institute on The Yin and Yang of Inflammation, organized by Andrea Cooper, Marcia Blackman and Elizabeth Leadbetter. The meeting will be held at the High Peaks Resort in Lake Placid, New York from April 4-6, 2014. Many diseases are the product of inflammation, which is part of the body's response to infection and tissue damage but is also a key element in chronic health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and aging. In this meeting, experts from throughout the biotech and academic framework will come together to examine and describe critical pathways in inflammation, place these pathways within the context of human disease, and discuss progress in developing new targets and treatments to combat inflammation-based diseases. The goals of this meeting are 1) to share fresh insight and generate discussion on the topic of inflammation that has obvious implications for human health, 2) to stimulate conversations between scientists who work in academia and the biotechnology industry in order to establish mutually beneficial interactions and share data and experimental approaches, and 3) to provide a venue affordable and accessible to students, post-docs and early stage investigators, and to provide scholarships to offset the costs of attending the meeting.