Chemistry of Preventing and Combating Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请请求支持美国化学学会（ACS）化学毒理学分部在2010年8月22日（星期日）至2010年8月25日（星期三）在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的第240届全国会议和博览会上的规划。本次加勒比国家联盟会议的一个独特之处是整个会议的广泛主题-“预防和抗击疾病的化学作用”，这使加勒比国家联盟所有部门的方案规划中突出的事件保持一致。ACS化学毒理学部的使命是促进对导致疾病过程的化学机制以及环境因子、药物和内源性化学品的毒性的理解。该部门整合了化学，化学生物学，结构生物学，毒理学，环境健康科学和疾病机制的工作。全球主题“化学预防和抗击疾病”与化学毒理学司的核心重点领域密切相关，因此提供了一个主题背景，可加强该司的方案拟订工作，并特别为学生和博士后研究员提供相关内容。四个相互关联的会议计划围绕中心主题“预防和抗击疾病的化学”，并包括由一组领先的和未来的科学家介绍他们最近的研究成果邀请会谈。需要得到支持的两届会议与国家经济和社会健康调查网的使命特别相关。第一个（专题讨论会#1）的标题是“蛋白质加合物和应激反应途径”，并解决亲电体和活性氧和氮物质通过选择性修饰蛋白质靶点触发应激和适应性信号传导途径的分子机制。第二个（研讨会#4）的标题是“炎症标记物和干预”，并解决了炎症中涉及的反应性物种的化学，特征分子物种的形成，可作为炎症过程的生物标志物和炎症作为与环境暴露相关的疾病过程的整合机制的作用。提供的论文会议和青年研究者研讨会为青年研究者提供了展示其主要贡献的机会。其他亮点是主题颁奖研讨会和科学观点演讲。 公共卫生相关性：有效预防和治疗与环境有关的疾病需要了解将环境暴露与疾病机制联系起来的潜在机制。 美国化学学会化学毒理学分会的这次会议将研究分子损伤转化为疾病的化学机制。 具体来说，赞助的研讨会将研究炎症和分子损伤过程如何产生触发环境诱导的疾病过程的信号的新工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for programming of the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at its 240th National Meeting and Exposition in Boston, MA from Sunday, 22-Aug-2010 to Wednesday, 25-Aug-2010. A unique feature of this ACS meeting is the broad theme of the entire meeting--"Chemistry of Preventing and Combating Disease," which aligns highlighted events across the programming of all ACS divisions. The mission of the ACS Division of Chemical Toxicology is to promote the understanding of chemical mechanisms that contribute to disease processes and the toxicity of environmental agents, drugs and endogenous chemicals. The division integrates work in chemistry, chemical biology, structural biology, toxicology, environmental health sciences and disease mechanisms. The global theme "Chemistry of Preventing and Combating Disease" aligns closely with the core focus areas of the Division of Chemical Toxicology and thus provides a thematic backdrop that reinforces programming in the Division and provides related content particularly for students and postdoctoral fellows. Four interrelated sessions are planned around the central theme "Chemistry of Preventing and Combating Disease" and include invited talks by a diverse group of leading established and up-and-coming scientists presenting their recent research results. The two sessions for which support is requested have especially strong relevance to the mission of the NIEHS. The first (Symposium #1) is entitled "Protein adducts and stress response pathways" and addresses molecular mechanisms by which electrophiles and reactive oxygen and nitrogen species trigger stress and adaptive signaling pathways by selective modification of protein targets. The second (Symposium #4) is entitled "Inflammation markers and interventions" and addresses the chemistry of reactive species involved in inflammation, the formation of characteristic molecular species that may serve as biomarkers for inflammatory processes and the role of inflammation as an integrating mechanism for disease processes associated with environmental exposures. Proffered paper sessions and a Young Investigators Symposium offer opportunities for young investigators to present their primary contributions. Other highlights are a keynote awards symposium and scientific perspectives address. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Effective prevention and treatment of environmentally-related diseases requires an understanding of underlying mechanisms that link environmental exposures to disease mechanisms. This meeting of the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society will examine the chemical mechanisms by which molecular damage translates to disease. Specifically, the sponsored symposia will examine new work on how inflammation and molecular damage processes create signals that trigger environmentally-induced disease processes.