The Yin and Yang of Inflammation

描述(由申请人提供)：特鲁多研究所主办的炎症阴阳会议，安德里亚·库珀、玛西娅·布莱克曼和伊丽莎白·利德贝特组织，现请求支持。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。许多疾病是炎症的产物，炎症是身体对感染和组织损伤的反应的一部分，但也是心脏病、糖尿病、类风湿性关节炎和衰老等慢性健康问题的关键因素。在这次会议上，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，将这些途径放在人类疾病的背景下，并讨论在开发新的靶点和治疗方法以抗击炎症为基础的疾病方面的进展。这次会议的目标是1)分享新的见解，并就对人类健康具有明显影响的炎症主题进行讨论；2)促进在学术界和生物技术行业工作的科学家之间的对话，以建立互惠互利的互动并分享数据和实验方法；3)为学生、博士后和早期研究人员提供一个负担得起的场所，并提供奖学金以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.