CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROTEOLYSIS SOCIETY

这是一个请求支持一个新组织的社会，国际蛋白质水解学会的第一次会议。形成了一个正式的社会，以促进基础，临床和工业科学家之间的互动，这是由于人们越来越认识到蛋白酶及其抑制剂在从细菌到人类的生物体的正常和病理过程中所起的多重作用。国际蛋白质水解协会（International Proteolysis Society）是由一个非正式组织--国际蛋白质水解委员会（International Committee on Proteolysis）或ICOP--演变而来，该组织由三个区域委员会组成：美国蛋白质水解委员会（American Committee on Proteolysis）、欧洲蛋白质水解委员会（European Committee on Proteolysis）和日本蛋白质水解委员会（Japanese Committee on Proteolysis）。1973年至1996年，ICOP组织了11次对细胞内蛋白质水解和蛋白质周转感兴趣的科学家国际会议。在美国举行的最后一次ICOP会议是1992年在弗吉尼亚州威廉斯堡举行的，由一位共同PI（J.Bond）和PI（B）组织。Sloane）。国际蛋白水解学会的目标是组织对该主题领域感兴趣的科学家的国际会议，为传播最新研究提供论坛，促进合作，并作为蛋白酶及其抑制剂会议的信息交换所。大约30名与会者将是国际公认的专家，他们将发表平台演讲。因为该协会的一个主要目标是鼓励根据提交的摘要选择的年轻科学家。预计其余与会者（约350人）将展示其工作的海报。本文将讨论蛋白水解酶及其抑制剂的结构、机制、调节、生物学和病理学功能的最新进展。会议将提供一个刺激的学术环境，在这个领域的知识前沿的数据和概念的自由流动的讨论。我们预计，本次会议将由来自学术界和工业界各种专业的基础，临床和应用研究人员参加。第一届国际蛋白水解学会会议的成功将取决于组织者吸引优秀演讲者在该领域前沿进行研究的能力，并为他们的旅行，酒店和注册费用提供资金。

This is a request for support for the first meeting of a newly organized society, the International Proteolysis Society. A formal society was formed to facilitate interactions among basic, clinical and industry scientists resulting from an increased awareness of the multiple roles played by proteases and their inhibitors in normal and pathological processes in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. The International Proteolysis Society evolved from an informal organization, the International Committee on Proteolysis or ICOP which was comprised of three regional committees: the American Committee on Proteolysis, the European Committee on Proteolysis and the Japanese committee on Proteolysis. ICOP organized eleven international conferences of scientists with research interests in intracellular proteolysis and protein turnover from 1973-1996. The last ICOP meeting in the USA was help in Williamsburg, VA in 1992 and organized by one of the co-PIs (J.Bond) and the PI (B. Sloane). The objectives of the International Proteolysis Society are to organize international meetings of scientists who share an interest in the subject area, to provide a forum for dissemination of the latest research, to facilitate collaborations, and to serve as a clearing house for meetings on proteases and their inhibitors. About 30 of the conferees will be internationally recognized experts who will give platform presentations. Since a major goal of the society is to encourage younger scientists who are chosen on the basis of submitted abstracts. It is expected that the remainder of the attendees (approximately 350) will give poster presentations of their work. Recent advances in elucidating the structures, mechanisms, regulation, and biological and pathological functions of proteolytic enzymes and their inhibitors will be discussed. The conference will provide a stimulating academic environment for free-flowing discussion of data and concepts at the frontiers of knowledge in this field. We anticipate that this conference will be attended by basic, clinical and applied investigators from a wide variety of specialities in academia and industry. The success of the first International Proteolysis Society meeting will depend on the organizers' ability to attract excellent speakers doing the research on the leading edge of the field and to fund their travel, hotel and registration costs.