17TH SYMPOSIUM ON MODELS FOR AIDS

本次会议拨款申请(R13)要求提供资金，用于计划、组织、宣传和主办第17届艾滋病非人类灵长类动物模型年度研讨会的部分费用。研讨会将于1999年10月6日至9日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良的DoubleTree酒店和会议中心举行，由路易斯安那州新奥尔良杜兰大学杜兰地区灵长类研究中心主办。这次会议已成为介绍和交流利用非人类灵长类模型进行艾滋病研究的最新科学进展的主要论坛。将介绍在发病机制、灵长类免疫学、疫苗和治疗学方面的最新发现。预计将有300多名来自美国、海外和波多黎各的科学家参加。研讨会将包括五个连续半天的科学会议，每个会议都致力于一个不同的主题。这些将是：(1)艾滋病相关感染，(2)灵长类疫苗/治疗学。每届会议将有一名特邀主席，他将在会议开幕前作30分钟的最新介绍，并有一名联合主席，他将主持会议并提出问题。此外，还将邀请一位主旨演讲人和宴会演讲人，讨论有关全球艾滋病危机和相关公共卫生问题的科学方法和关切问题。一个由元素成员组成的科学计划委员会(六名成员来自TRPRC/杜兰，五名来自其他机构)将审查摘要，并为五个科学学科中的每一个选择口头和海报演示。选择口头陈述的标准将包括专题的相关性以及摘要所载信息的原创性和质量。这些演讲将被邀请以手稿的形式提交报告，并在《医学灵长类杂志》上发表。海报会议将包括五个平台会议中不能容纳的有功陈述。会议还将包括一场开幕式招待会(注：招待会和宴会费将从其他来源获得)。

This conference grant (R13) application requests funds to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 17th Annual Symposium on Non-human Primate Models for AIDS. The symposium will be held October 6-9, 1999 at the DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center in New Orleans, Louisiana and will be hosted by the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. This meeting has become the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of the most recent scientific advances in AIDS research utilizing the non-human primate model. The latest findings in pathogenesis, primate immunology, vaccines and therapeutics will be presented. It is anticipated that more than 300 scientists from the United States, abroad and Puerto Rico will attend. The symposium will encompass five consecutive half-day scientific sessions, each devoted to a different theme. These will be: (1) AIDS-associated Infections, (2) Primate Vaccine/Therapeutics. Each session will have an invited Chair, who will give a 30-minute state-of-the-art presentation to open the session and a Co-Chair, who will moderate the session and entertain questions. In addition, there will be an invited keynote speaker and banquet speaker to address scientific approaches and concerns regarding the global AIDS crisis and related issues of public health. A Scientific Program Committee consisting of element members (six members from TRPRC/Tulane and five from other institutions) will review abstracts and select those for oral versus Poster presentation for each of the five scientific disciplines. Criteria for selection of oral presentations will include relevance of the topic as well as originality and quality of the information contained in the abstract. These giving talks will be invited to submit their presentations in manuscript form for publication in the Journal of Medical Primatology. A poster session will include meritorious presentations that cannot be accommodate in one of the five platform sessions. The conference will also include an opening reception on speaker (NOTE: funds for the reception and banquet will be obtained from other sources).