Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders Annual Meeting

描述(由申请人提供)：遗传性代谢紊乱学会(SIMD)请求资助，为学员提供奖学金，让他们参加2009年和2010年的年会。2009年的会议将与在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的先天性代谢错误国际大会同时举行，而2010年的会议将与美国医学遗传学学院的年会协调在新墨西哥州的阿尔伯克基举行。先天性代谢异常(IEM)是导致智力低下、脑性瘫痪、神经肌肉疾病、心脏疾病、肝肾功能障碍、关节炎、糖尿病、生长障碍和失明的重要原因。随着这些疾病的广泛临床和分子谱被阐明，部分原因是串联质谱学的发展和新生儿筛查计划的快速扩展，现在已知受影响的个人数量比最初认识的要多得多。此外，治疗某些疾病是可用的，但很少进行临床试验来评估其疗效。因此，要更好地了解这些严重的疾病并开发有效的治疗方法，仍有许多工作要做。美国要想在这一重要的研究领域保持领先地位，就必须吸引年轻的研究人员进入该领域。实现这一目标的一个有效机制是为他们提供参加SIMD会议的机会，在那里他们可以探索该领域，并与其他知名研究人员发展科学联系。SIMD会议每年举行一次，参与人数，特别是年轻调查人员，每年都在稳步增加。NIH旅行奖的可获得性一直是这一增长的主要原因。寻求资助的学员被要求提交一份描述原创研究的摘要，并在会议上提交。组织者预计将提交40至50篇摘要，供在美国(2010年)的年会上提交，而国际会议(2009年)的摘要数量将是这一数字的两到三倍。旅行奖励的申请将在会议前四个月进行竞争性审查，目标是颁发25个年度奖励，每个奖励1000美元。将从私人来源募集更多资金。将积极招聘妇女和少数族裔申请者。 项目简介：遗传性代谢紊乱学会(SIMD)会议将帮助培训新的医生，以照顾患有身体生化障碍的患者。该国很少有这样的专家，为新学员见面和介绍他们的研究提供旅费，鼓励他们留在这个领域。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): The Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD) requests support to provide scholarships for trainees to attend its annual meetings in years 2009 and 2010. The 2009 meeting will be held in conjunction with the International Congress on Inborn Errors of Metabolism in San Diego, CA, while the 2010 meeting will be held in Albuquerque, NM, in coordination with the annual meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics. Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are an important cause of mental retardation, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular disease, cardiac disorders, hepatic and renal dysfunction, arthritis, diabetes, growth failure, and blindness. As the wide clinical and molecular spectrum of these disorders is being elucidated, in part fueled by the development of tandem mass spectroscopy and the rapid expansion of newborn screening programs, the number of affected individuals is now known to be much larger than originally recognized. In addition, therapies are available for some conditions, yet few clinical trials have been performed to evaluate their efficacy. Thus, much remains to be done to better understand these severe disorders and develop effective treatments for them. For the U.S. to remain preeminent in this important area of research, it is essential to attract young investigators into the field. One effective mechanism to achieve this goal is to provide them with the opportunity to participate in the SIMD meeting, where they can explore the field and develop scientific ties to other established investigators. The SIMD meeting is held annually and participation, especially by young investigators, has been steadily increasing each year. The availability of NIH travel awards has been a major reason for this increase. Trainees seeking funding are required to submit an abstract describing original research to be presented at the meeting. The organizers anticipate submission of 40 to 50 abstracts for presentation at the annual meetings in the U.S. (2010) with two to three times that number for the international meeting (2009). Applications for travel awards will be competitively reviewed four months prior to the meeting, with the goal of making 25 annual awards of $1,000 each. Additional funds will be solicited from private sources. Women and minority applicants will be actively recruited. PROJECT NARRATIVE: The Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD) meeting will help to train new physicians to take care of patients with disorders of the body's biochemistry. There are very few such specialists in the country, and providing travel funds for new trainees to meet and present their research encourages them to remain in the field.