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反应。为了迅速利用这一领域的科学进展，需要克服两大障碍：第一，将基本发现转化为临床和医学相关背景；第二，交流免疫科学的相关发现，通过跨越传统临床边界的多学科方法，将这些不同的疾病统一起来。Focis是临床免疫学会联合会，是为满足这些需求而存在的领先国际组织。将代表60,000名专业人员的43个主要专业协会与这一共同愿景联系起来，将确保朝着通过免疫学改善人类健康的目标取得进展。 FOCISED Focus的存在是为了通过免疫学来改善人类健康。根据这一使命，Focis创建了教育组合(FOCISed)，以促进基础和临床科学家在跨学科方法方面的培训和教育，以执行最佳研究，开发新工具，并提供对免疫疾病的新见解。请参阅下面FOCISed课程的概述： 基础与临床免疫学高级课程 这门课程的学生包括临床研究员、制药行业的实习生和研究人员，以及需要加强对免疫学理解的执业学术内科医生。特邀演讲者讲授细胞和分子免疫学的主要主题，包括先天免疫、B细胞、T细胞和细胞因子。特别会议涵盖介入性临床免疫学的新进展，以及免疫介导性疾病的分子和遗传学基础。学生们有足够的机会在讲堂外与教职员工互动。 介入免疫学 介入免疫学课程提供关于目前可用的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靶点。这些类型的治疗具有潜在的巨大价值，但缺乏跨学科的审查。本课程的内容包括回顾在各种疾病中选择免疫相关治疗靶点的科学基础，包括器官特定和系统自身免疫、过敏、移植排斥反应、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的主要药理学方法的基本原理和机制，并回顾不同专科中不同治疗方法的跟踪记录。 医学中的基础免疫学：最新进展 这门课程是在2002年开设的，因为人们意识到，研究的快速步伐正在导致对免疫反应及其异常的理解取得根本性进展。与时俱进对于医学从业者以及学术界和工业界的研究人员来说都是至关重要的。随着新的免疫治疗策略的开发和采用，了解这些治疗背后的原理是很重要的，这也需要对免疫学的基本原理有所了解。本课程旨在提供对选定的基本原理的复杂回顾，以及关于新进展的最新进展，特别是那些与人类疾病最相关的进展。 项目说明： 创建教育计划，保持、发展和提高受训人员和研究人员在广泛的临床免疫学领域的知识、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则。目标：增加参加FOCIS年会的临床实习生人数，与成员社会和行业合作提供跨学科教育项目，增加翻译免疫学研究生院项目的数量，推动翻译免疫学教育项目的建立，增加建立Focis开发项目的机构数量，促进和加强专注于不同免疫介导性疾病的现有财团之间的方法和技术交流。