Neurobiology of Disease Workshop -- Teaching Workshop

描述（由申请人提供）：神经科学学会（SfN）是世界领先的神经科学领域专业协会，为其成功举办的疾病神经生物学研讨会（NDW）寻求为期五年的续期资助。预计未来十年将导致神经科学的突破，并迅速将发现转化为改善人类健康，并将需要新一代关注疾病的基础研究人员。SfN使命的一个基石是为处于职业生涯各个阶段的神经科学家提供教育资源，NDW作为最成功的国家级研讨会，有着30年的良好记录，专门旨在吸引年轻的基础神经科学家研究神经系统疾病。NDW的总体目标仍然是激励来自多个学科的新的基础科学研究人员专注于疾病研究，最终有助于推进重要神经系统疾病的治疗。该计划的四个具体目标是：1)向年轻的神经科学家介绍与神经系统疾病直接相关的重要的未解决的科学问题；2)展示神经科学家训练人类神经系统疾病的一面；3)促进师生之间在最新疾病相关研究方面的信息交流；4)通过在SfN年会之外传播其内容来扩大研讨会的影响范围。SfN将通过每年召集一个特定疾病领域的顶级专家，通过为期一天的250名参与者的研讨会介绍最新的问题和想法来实现这些目标。在协会年度会议上举行的研讨会包括上午精心排练和整合的教学讲座和患者访谈，随后是下午由活跃的科学和临床专家领导的小型互动讨论小组。这一赠款周期的新内容将是旨在提高NDW计划影响的努力。无法参加研讨会的年轻神经科学家将受益于录制在CD-ROM上的讲座和幻灯片。此外，SfN将在每次研讨会后组织后续网络研讨会和在线讨论论坛，以进一步鼓励和吸引NDW与会者和其他人对特定神经系统疾病或障碍进行研究和讨论。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the world's leading professional association for the field of neuroscience, seeks a five-year renewal grant for its successful Neurobiology of Disease Workshop (NDW). The next decade is expected to lead to breakthroughs in neuroscience and rapid translation of discoveries to improving human health and will require new generations of disease-focused basic researchers. A cornerstone of SfN's mission is to provide educational resources to neuroscientists at all stages of their careers, and the NDW has had a strong 30-year track record as the most successful national-level workshop specifically aimed at attracting young basic neuroscientists to the study of diseases of the nervous system. The overall goal of the NDW remains to inspire new basic science researchers from multiple disciplines to focus on disease research that will ultimately contribute to advancing the treatment of important neurological disorders. The four specific aims of the program are: 1) to introduce young neuroscientists to important unsolved scientific problems that relate directly to diseases of the nervous system; 2) to show neuroscientists in training the human side of diseases of the nervous system; 3) to promote the exchange of information on state-of-the-art disease-related research among the faculty and students; and 4) to broaden the reach of the workshop by disseminating its content beyond the SfN annual meeting. SfN will achieve these aims by assembling top experts in a specific disease area each year to introduce the latest problems and ideas through a day-long workshop for 250 participants. The workshops, held at the Society's annual meetings, are comprised of a morning of carefully rehearsed and integrated didactic lectures and patient interviews, followed by an afternoon of small interactive discussion groups led by active scientific and clinical experts. New to this grant cycle will be efforts aimed at increasing the impact of the NDW program. Young neuroscientists unable to attend the workshop will benefit from recorded lectures and slides on CD-ROM. In addition, SfN will organize a follow-up webinar and online discussion forum after each workshop, to further encourage and engage NDW attendees and others to pursue studies and discussions on the specific neurological disease or disorder. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overall goal of the Neurobiology of Disease Workshop (NDW) is to introduce, the world of neurological disease to the basic scientist, with the expectation that whatever their interest or expertise in the nervous system, they may bring extraordinary new questions, ideas and even solutions to problems that baffle those in the field. These one-day workshops take place at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting each year and are organized by the top leaders in a specific disease. NDW is composed of a morning of carefully integrated didactic lectures and patient interviews, followed by an afternoon of small interactive discussion groups led by active scientific and clinical experts. The program will benefit 250 young neuroscientists at each workshop and countless others via Web-based dissemination activities.