Frontiers in the Amelioration of Heaing Loss Conference

本申请请求对由圣路易斯华盛顿大学附属的聋人中心研究所主办的听力损失改善新领域会议的部分支持，该会议是为了荣誉James D.米勒。这次会议为临床医生，科学家和工程师提供了一个难得的机会，在广泛不同的领域走到一起，分享他们的最新研究成果。拟议的会议将反映当前的最先进的和项目的未来发展在四个主要领域：毛细胞再生和发展，感觉细胞的保护和救援，感官援助，听觉处理和康复。拟议会议的主要目标之一是将研究感觉细胞的基本细胞和分子机制的生物学家与致力于感觉辅助和治疗的特点和发展的临床科学家和工程师聚集在一起。希望促进对话，信息和最新发现的传递，并突出对听力损失治疗有潜在应用的研究机会。拟议的会议将包括邀请演讲和讨论，教程，并贡献海报会议。跨学科教程将用于教育基础科学家和临床科学家和工程师。会议记录将被同行评审，并发表在一个问题的耳朵和听力。组织委员会由一组在会议四个主要领域有良好声誉的调查人员组成，并由一名会议协调员协助。一个国际公认的科学家小组为组委会提供建议。为了鼓励新的和年轻的研究人员，将向研究生和博士后研究员颁发30个奖学金。将通过邮政和电子邮件、公告和海报在适当的地方宣传拟议的会议。

This application requests partial support for a conference on New Frontiers in the Amelioration of Hearing Loss hosted by the Central Institute for the Deaf, an affiliate of Washington University in St. Louis, and in honor of Dr. James D. Miller. This conference provides a rare opportunity for clinicians, scientists and engineers in widely disparate fields to come together and share their latest research findings. The proposed conference will reflect the current state-of-the-art and project future developments in four major areas: hair cell regeneration and development, sensory cell protection and rescue, sensory aids, and auditory processing and rehabilitation. One of the major aims of the proposed conference is to bring together biologists who study basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of sensory cells with clinical scientists and engineers who are working on the characteristics and development of sensory aids and treatments. The hope is to facilitate dialogue, the transfer of information and the latest findings as well as to highlight opportunities for research that have potential applications to the treatment of hearing loss. The proposed conference will include invited presentations and discussions, tutorials, and contributed poster sessions. Cross-disciplinary tutorials will be used to educate both basic scientists and clinical scientists and engineers. Conference proceedings will be peer reviewed and published in an issue of Ear and Hearing. The organizing committee consists of a group of well established investigators in the four major areas of the conference and is assisted by a conference coordinator. An internationally recognized panel of scientists advises the organizing committee. In order to encourage new and young investigators, 30 scholarships will be awarded to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The proposed conference will be advertised through postal and electronic mailings, announcements and posters at appropriate places.