2014 International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses

2014年乙型肝炎病毒分子生物学国际会议

• 批准号: 8712000
• 负责人: J.-H. James Ou
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8712000
• 关键词: Address; Animal Model; Antiviral Therapy; Basic Science; Biochemistry; Biology; Biomedical Research; California; Cellular biology; Cessation of life; Cirrhosis; Communities; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Digestive System Disorders; Discipline; Disease; Financial Support; Foundations; Fund Raising; Funding; Gene Expression; Goals; Grant; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis B Virus; Hepatitis Delta Virus; Home environment; Immunology; Individual; Infection; Institutes; International; Joints; Kidney Diseases; Knowledge; Light; Liver Failure; Los Angeles; Malignant Neoplasms; Minority; Mission; Modality; Molecular Biology; National Cancer Institute; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Oral; Pathogenesis; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Primary carcinoma of the liver cells; Public Health; RNA Editing; Regulatory Element; Research; Research Personnel; Schedule; Scientist; Senior Scientist; Series; Structure; Therapeutic; Time; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vaccines; Viral; Virus; Virus Diseases; Virus Shedding; cost; gene therapy; graduate student; interest; lecturer; meetings; pathogen; posters; prophylactic; protein expression; public health relevance; symposium; vector; virology

Project Summary This proposal is a request for funding to support the travel expenses for young scientists to attend and participate in the 2014 International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses, scheduled for September 3 - 6, 2014 at the conference facility of the University of California, Los Angeles. This meeting is the only forum that gathers the international community of researchers that focus on the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the closely associated hepatitis delta virus (HDV). Approximately 25% of the world's population has been infected by HBV. Unfortunately, despite the availability of prophylactic vaccines, many new infections occur worldwide, mostly because of underutilization of the vaccine due to cost and other issues. Moreover, for the approximately 350 million people already chronically infected with HBV (approximately 15 million of whom are co-infected with HDV), the vaccine is of no therapeutic value. As a result, between 0.5 and 1 million people die of HBV/HDV every year worldwide. It is therefore imperative that basic research on HBV continues, and the latest progress in the field is discussed and disseminated in a timely manner. The annual HBV meeting provides the forum for scientific exchanges and the dissemination of latest research information. The 2014 meeting will uphold and enhance the traditional format. It will consist of 9 oral scientific sessions and 2 poster sessions as well as less structured "networking" time. The scientific interactions will be facilitated by two keynote addresses. As in the past, great effort has been made to minimize the cost of the meeting. Furthermore, the Hepatitis B Foundation has made a strong commitment to support this meeting since 2005, in terms of providing a permanent home for organizing the meeting and making its staff available for organizing the meeting and publicizing it, especially to universities with large numbers of underrepresented minorities. In order to allow the participation of junior and minority investigators, support from the NIH to help defray the meeting costs is requested.

项目概要 该提案是一项资金请求，以支持年轻科学家的旅费 出席并参加2014年乙型肝炎分子生物学国际会议 病毒，定于 2014 年 9 月 3 日至 6 日在大学会议设施举行 加利福尼亚州、洛杉矶。这次会议是唯一一个聚集国际社会的论坛 专注于乙型肝炎病毒 (HBV) 和密切相关的肝炎的研究人员 δ病毒（HDV）。世界上大约25%的人口感染过乙型肝炎病毒。 不幸的是，尽管有预防性疫苗，但仍然出现了许多新的感染 在世界范围内，主要是由于成本和其他问题导致疫苗利用不足。 此外，对于已经慢性感染乙肝病毒的大约 3.5 亿人来说 （其中约 1500 万人同时感染丁型肝炎病毒），该疫苗没有治疗作用 价值。因此，全世界每年有 0.5 至 100 万人死于 HBV/HDV。这是 因此，继续进行乙型肝炎的基础研究势在必行，该领域的最新进展 并及时进行讨论和传播。一年一度的 HBV 会议提供了论坛 用于科学交流和传播最新研究信息。 2014年会议 将秉承并发扬传统形式。它将包括 9 场口头科学会议和 2 场 海报会议以及结构性较低的“社交”时间。科学的互动将是 两位主旨演讲推动了会议的进行。与过去一样，我们付出了巨大的努力来尽量减少 会议费用。此外，乙型肝炎基金会做出了坚定承诺 自 2005 年以来一直支持本次会议，为组织这次会议提供永久场所 会议并让其工作人员能够组织会议并进行宣传，特别是向 拥有大量代表性不足的少数族裔的大学。为了让 初级和少数族裔研究人员的参与，NIH 的支持以帮助支付会议费用 要求费用。