Support for the 7th Aquatic Models of Human Disease Conference

支持第七届人类疾病水生模型会议

• 批准号: 8785856
• 负责人: RONALD B WALTER
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8785856
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aquatic animal models have played important roles in advancing our understanding of the origins of human disease and have also contributed to the study and identification of drug targets and tests associated with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease. In many cases, the best choice for an animal model of human disease is aquatic; the most-widely known is zebrafish but the community of investigators exploiting the unique attributes of extremely varied aquatic animals to address heretofore unapproachable questions related to human disease is growing. These unique aquatic animal models represent a wide-range of innovative studies, methods and technologies that improve the conceptual understanding of the complexity of human disease. The Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference is the primary conference that focuses broadly on multiple aquatic models used to investigate the full range of human diseases. It is unique compared to any other conference or venue in providing a forum for the entire breadth of investigator's approaches to a wide collection of aquatic models that are employed to better understand a large spectrum of human diseases. The 7th conference in this series seeks to bring together researchers from the U.S. and around the world that employ aquatic animal models in their studies of human diseases, The conference will be hosted by the Texas State University and held outside Austin, Texas on December 13-18, 2014. The program has been designed by recognized leaders in the field to provide state-of-the-art information on advances in the use of aquatic animals in biomedical research. The dissemination of information, formal and informal engagement in discussion, and collaborative exchange of ideas will be achieved through a series of platform and poster sessions as well as four "break-out" workshops. New investigators, women, investigators with disabilities and under-represented minorities will be actively recruited to participate in this meeting through mechanisms such as travel awards. Representatives from funding institutes will be invited and encouraged to participate in all aspects of the meeting, especially the final session on priorities of human disease research and strategies for guiding extramural support. The proceedings from past meetings have been published in special issues of a scientific journal and we will continue that mechanism for dissemination as well as attempt to publish a book that will provide a comprehensive review of the state of aquatic animal models and their use in human disease research. The science presented at this meeting will have a great impact in providing new approaches to the study of human disease and will simultaneously provide a forum to recruit new investigators into this field. One outcome of these gatherings and this meeting in particular, is to provide new investigators with the ideas, background and mentoring required to improve the quality of grant applications submitted to multiple NIH institutes. Relevance to Public Health: The focus of this conference is on the development and application of animal models to study human disease. Aquatic animals have many advantages and attributes that can make them superior choices compared to rodent or other mammalian models to investigate complex scientific questions. The main outcome of this meeting will be dissemination of this knowledge, training and mentoring of new investigators in this field and will result in the pursuit of novel and innovative approaches designed to provide results, information and knowledge that will contribute to improving human health across a broad collection of diseases.

描述（申请人提供）：水生动物模型在促进我们对人类疾病起源的理解方面发挥了重要作用，也有助于研究和鉴定与疾病诊断、预防和治疗相关的药物靶点和测试。在许多情况下，人类疾病动物模型的最佳选择是水生动物;最广为人知的是斑马鱼，但研究人员利用各种各样的水生动物的独特属性来解决迄今为止与人类疾病有关的难以解决的问题的群体正在增长。这些独特的水生动物模型代表了广泛的创新研究，方法和技术，提高了对人类疾病复杂性的概念理解。人类疾病水生动物模型会议是主要的会议，广泛关注用于研究各种人类疾病的多种水生动物模型。与任何其他会议或场所相比，它是独一无二的，它为研究人员对广泛收集的水生模型的方法的整个广度提供了一个论坛，这些水生模型用于更好地了解大量的人类疾病。该系列的第7次会议旨在汇集来自美国和世界各地的研究人员，他们在人类疾病的研究中使用水生动物模型，会议将由德克萨斯州州立大学主办，并于2014年12月13日至18日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市外举行。该计划由该领域公认的领导者设计，旨在提供有关水生动物在生物医学研究中的应用进展的最新信息。 将通过一系列平台和海报会议以及四次“分组”研讨会，传播信息、正式和非正式参与讨论以及协作交流想法。将通过旅行奖励等机制，积极征聘新的调查员、妇女、残疾调查员和代表性不足的少数族裔参加这次会议。将邀请并鼓励供资机构的代表参加会议的各个方面，特别是关于人类疾病研究优先事项和指导校外支持战略的最后一次会议。过去会议的记录已发表在一份科学杂志的特刊上，我们将继续这一传播机制，并试图出版一本书，全面回顾水生动物模型及其在人类疾病研究中的应用。在这次会议上提出的科学将在提供人类疾病研究的新方法方面产生重大影响，同时将提供一个论坛，招募新的研究人员进入这一领域。这些聚会的一个结果，特别是这次会议，是为新的研究人员提供所需的想法，背景和指导，以提高提交给多个NIH研究所的拨款申请的质量。与公共卫生的相关性：本次会议的重点是研究人类疾病的动物模型的开发和应用。水生动物具有许多优势和属性，与啮齿动物或其他哺乳动物模型相比，可以使它们成为研究复杂科学问题的上级选择。这次会议的主要成果将是传播这一知识，培训和指导这一领域的新研究人员，并将导致追求新的和创新的方法，旨在提供结果，信息和知识，这将有助于改善人类健康的广泛收集的疾病。