FOCIS Educational Courses: Basic Immunology in Medicine Update, Interventional Im

FOCIS 教育课程：医学基础免疫学更新、介入治疗

• 批准号: 8062958
• 负责人: ANDREW H LICHTMAN
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: FEDERATION/CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY SOCIETIES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8062958
• 关键词: Academia; Adopted; Area; Asthma; Autoimmune Diseases; Autoimmunity; Automobile Driving; B-Lymphocytes; Cellular Immunology; Clinical; Clinical Immunology; Clinical Research; Commit; Communicable Diseases; Development; Disease; Drug Industry; Education; Educational Curriculum; Ensure; Evaluation; Faculty; Fostering; Goals; Graft Rejection; HIV; Health; Human; Hypersensitivity; Immune; Immune System Diseases; Immune response; Immune system; Immunology; Immunotherapeutic agent; Industry; Institutes; Institution; International; Knowledge; Link; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Medicine; Mission; Molecular Genetics; Molecular Immunology; Natural Immunity; Organ; Pathogenesis; Performance; Physicians; Regulation; Research; Research Personnel; Schools; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; Services; Side; Societies; Students; T-Lymphocyte; Technology; Therapeutic; Training and Education; Translations; Update; Vision; base; cytokine; design; human disease; improved; insight; interdisciplinary approach; lectures; medical specialties; meetings; member; programs; response; skills; therapeutic target; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding function and regulation of the immune system is critical for many diseases, including autoimmune diseases, cancer, allergy/asthma, infectious diseases, immune deficiency, and transplant rejection. To rapidly exploit scientific advances in this area, two major barriers need to be overcome: First, the translation of basic findings into clinically and medically relevant contexts, and second, the exchange of relevant findings in immunological sciences which unify these diverse diseases through multidisciplinary approaches which cut across traditional clinical boundaries. FOCIS, the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, is the leading international organization which exists to meet these needs. Linking more than 43 major professional societies representing 60,000 professionals with this common vision is a service that will ensure progress towards the goal of improving human health through immunology. FOCISed FOCIS exists to improve human health through immunology. Consistent with this mission, FOCIS created the educational portfolio (FOCISed) to foster the training and education of basic and clinical scientists in interdisciplinary approaches to perform the best research, develop new tools and provide new insights into immunological diseases. Please see an overview of each FOCISed course below: Advanced Course in Basic & Clinical Immunology Students in this course include clinical fellows, trainees and researchers in the pharmaceutical industry, and practicing academic physicians who need to enhance their understanding of immunology. Invited speakers lecture on the major topics in cellular and molecular immunology, including innate immunity, B cells, T cells and cytokines. Special sessions cover new advances in interventional clinical immunology and the molecular and genetic basis of immunologically-mediated diseases. There is ample opportunity for students to interact with the faculty outside the lecture room. Interventional Immunology The Interventional Immunology course provides education on the many new therapies that are currently available or in development which are based on targets that are unfamiliar to many practicing physicians. There is potentially great value for, but lack of, cross-disciplinary reviews of these types of therapies. The content of this course includes a review of the scientific basis for choice of immunologically related therapeutic targets in various diseases, including organ specific and systemic autoimmunity, allergy, transplant rejection, cancer and HIV. The goal is to help attendees understand the rationale and mechanism underlying the major pharmacologic approaches for interventional immunology in their current practice and review the track record of the different therapeutic approaches in different specialties. Basic Immunology in Medicine: Update This course was launched in 2002 because of the realization that the rapid pace of research is leading to fundamental advances in the understanding of immune responses and their abnormalities. Staying abreast of these advances is essential for practitioners of medicine and for researchers in academia and industry. As new immunotherapeutic strategies are being developed and adopted, it is important to understand the rationale behind these therapies, and this also requires an appreciation of the fundamentals of immunology. This course is designed to provide a sophisticated review of selected basic principles, and an update on new advances, especially those that are most relevant to human disease. Project Narrative: To create educational programs that maintain, develop and increase the knowledge, understanding, skills and professional performance of trainees and investigators in the broad field of clinical immunology, and to enable basic scientists to understand the pathogenesis of immunological disease and the principles of clinical research. Goals: Increase the number of clinical trainees who attend the FOCIS annual meeting, Partner with member societies and industry to deliver interdisciplinary educational programs, Increase number of graduate school programs in translational immunology, Drive the establishment of educational programs in translational immunology, Increase the number of institutions that institute FOCIS-developed programs, and Facilitate and enhance an exchange of approaches and technologies among established consortia focused on different immunologically-mediated diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）： 了解免疫系统的功能和调节对于许多疾病至关重要，包括自身免疫性疾病、癌症、过敏/哮喘、传染病、免疫缺陷和移植排斥。为了快速利用这一领域的科学进步，需要克服两个主要障碍：首先，将基本发现转化为临床和医学相关背景；其次，交流免​​疫科学的相关发现，通过跨越传统临床界限的多学科方法统一这些不同的疾病。 FOCIS（临床免疫学会联合会）是满足这些需求的领先国际组织。将代表 60,000 名专业人士的超过 43 个主要专业协会与这一共同愿景联系起来，这项服务将确保通过免疫学改善人类健康的目标取得进展。 焦点 FOCIS 的存在是为了通过免疫学改善人类健康。与这一使命相一致，FOCIS 创建了教育组合 (FOCISed)，以促进基础和临床科学家采用跨学科方法的培训和教育，以进行最佳研究、开发新工具并提供有关免疫疾病的新见解。请参阅下面每门 FOCISed 课程的概述： 基础与临床免疫学高级课程 本课程的学生包括制药行业的临床研究员、实习生和研究人员，以及需要增强对免疫学理解的执业学术医师。特邀演讲者就细胞和分子免疫学的主要主题进行演讲，包括先天免疫、B 细胞、T 细胞和细胞因子。特别会议涵盖介入临床免疫学的新进展以及免疫介导疾病的分子和遗传基础。学生有充足的机会在课堂外与教师互动。 介入免疫学 介入免疫学课程提供有关当前可用或正在开发的许多新疗法的教育，这些疗法基于许多执业医生不熟悉的目标。对这些类型的疗法有潜在的巨大价值，但缺乏跨学科审查。本课程的内容包括回顾各种疾病中免疫相关治疗靶点选择的科学依据，包括器官特异性和系统性自身免疫、过敏、移植排斥、癌症和艾滋病毒。目的是帮助与会者了解当前实践中介入免疫学主要药理学方法的基本原理和机制，并回顾不同专业不同治疗方法的跟踪记录。 医学基础免疫学：更新 本课程于 2002 年推出，因为我们认识到研究的快速发展正在导致对免疫反应及其异常的理解取得根本性进展。跟上这些进展对于医学从业者以及学术界和工业界的研究人员来说至关重要。随着新的免疫治疗策略的开发和采用，了解这些疗法背后的基本原理非常重要，这也需要了解免疫学的基础知识。本课程旨在对选定的基本原理进行复杂的回顾，并介绍新进展的最新进展，特别是与人类疾病最相关的进展。 项目叙述： 创建教育计划，维持、发展和提高受训者和研究人员在临床免疫学广泛领域的知识、理解、技能和专业表现，并使基础科学家了解免疫疾病的发病机制和临床研究的原理。目标： 增加参加 FOCIS 年会的临床学员数量， 与会员协会和行业合作提供跨学科教育项目， 增加转化免疫学研究生院项目的数量， 推动转化免疫学教育项目的建立， 增加开展 FOCIS 开发项目的机构数量， 促进和加强专注于不同免疫介导的已建立联盟之间的方法和技术交流 疾病。