21ST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON NHP MODELS FOR AIDS

描述（由申请人提供）： 申请资金部分用于计划、组织、宣传和主办将于2003年10月23日至25日在华盛顿州西雅图市中心贝尔港国际会议中心举行的第21届艾滋病国家卫生保健模式年度研讨会。 这次会议是利用NHP模式介绍和交流艾滋病研究最新科学进展的主要论坛。 预计将有来自美国和其他国家的300多名科学家参加。 专题讨论会将包括五个半天的科学会议和一个海报会议。 会议将涵盖病毒学，疫苗/免疫学，发病机理/治疗学，NHP遗传学和基因组学的主题。 每个会议将有一个或多个特邀演讲者，谁将给每个25分钟的国家的最先进的介绍。 部分会议还将包括圆桌讨论，以促进交流。 将请特邀发言者作为会议主席或联合主席主持会议并指导讨论。 将邀请一位主旨发言人和一位宴会发言人来讨论更广泛的科学兴趣和公共卫生问题。 科学计划将由科学计划委员会组织，该委员会由六名本地和六名非本地成员组成，他们都是各自专业领域的领导者，代表着广泛的地理和机构分布。 委员会成员将审查摘要，并选择那些口头和海报介绍。 选择口头报告的标准将包括主题的相关性，以及摘要中所载信息的原创性和质量。 口头报告的人将被邀请提交一份手稿，发表在医学灵长类动物学杂志上。 海报会议将包括无法在任何一次平台会议上进行的有价值的介绍。 会议还将包括抵达当天的开幕招待会;第二天晚上的海报会议招待会;以及研讨会最后一天晚上的招待会和宴会。 为了利用所聚集的专业知识并进一步推进本次研讨会的教育使命，规划者还建议举办一次辅导会议，主要针对高中科学教师和初级研究人员（研究生）。 本次会议将包括由特邀演讲者介绍的艾滋病毒/艾滋病和相关国家卫生计划研究的概述，然后进行讨论。 虽然这次辅导会议的与会者将不会出席研讨会的其他会议，他们将有机会了解最新的艾滋病研究在非艾滋病患者，并会见了研究人员在该领域的开幕招待会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing, and hosting the 21st Annual Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS to be held October 23-25, 2003 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in downtown Seattle, WA. This meeting has been a premier forum for presentation and exchange of the most recent scientific advances in AIDS research utilizing the NHP model. It is anticipated that more than 300 scientists from the United States and other countries will attend. The symposium will consist of five half-day scientific sessions and a poster session. The sessions will cover topics in virology, vaccines/immunology pathogenesis/therapeutics, and NHP genetics and genomics. Each session will have one or more invited speakers, who will each give a 25-minute state-of-the-art presentation. Select sessions will also include a round table discussion to promote exchanges. Invited speakers, as Chairs or co-chairs of the session, will be asked to moderate the sessions and guide the discussions. A Keynote Speaker and a Banquet Speaker will be invited to address the broader issues of scientific interest and public health concerns. The scientific program will be organized by the Scientific Program Committee, consisting of six local and six non-local members, all leaders in their fields of expertise, representing a broad geographic and institutional distribution. Committee members will review abstracts and select those for oral and poster presentations. 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. Those giving oral presentations will be invited to submit a manuscript to be published in the Journal of Medical Primatology. A poster session will include meritorious presentations that cannot be accommodated in one of the platform sessions. The conference will also include an opening reception on the day of arrival; a reception with the poster session on the second evening; and a reception and banquet on the last evening of the symposium. To take advantage of the expertise assembled and to further the educational mission of this Symposium, the planners also propose to hold a tutorial session, primarily aimed at high school science teachers and junior researchers (graduate students). This session will consist of overviews on HIV/AIDS and related NHP research presented by invited speakers, followed by discussions. Although participants of this tutorial session will not attend other sessions of the Symposium, they will have an opportunity to learn the latest in AIDS research in NHPs and to meet with researchers in the field at the opening reception of the Symposium.