Conference--Impact of the Environment on Colon Cancer

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为环境诱变剂协会组织的题为“环境对结肠癌的影响”的国际科学会议提供部分资金支持。会议将于2003年5月14日至5月16日在佛罗里达州迈阿密的枫丹白露希尔顿酒店举行。这次专业会议将汇集来自不同学科的实验室和临床研究人员，以评估暴露于环境诱变剂/致癌物与结肠癌发展之间关系的证据。我们的结肠癌会议是EMS组织的一系列特别会议的第二次会议，旨在探讨环境诱变剂/致癌物在特定疾病中的作用。通过这些专业会议，EMS希望利用其组织结构和成员基础来(1)引起人们对环境诱变剂/致癌物在特定疾病病因学中的潜在作用的关注，(2)将来自各种学科（包括化学、分子和细胞生物学、遗传学、医学和流行病学）的科学家聚集在一起，关注这些问题。(3)强调环境科学在了解人类疾病和改善人类健康方面所起的关键作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a request for funds to partially support an international scientific conference organized by the Environmental Mutagen Society entitled "Impact of the Environment on Colon Cancer". The conference will be held from May 14 - May 16, 2003 in the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami, Florida. This specialty meeting will bring together laboratory and clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines to evaluate the evidence for a relationship between exposure to environmental mutagens/carcinogens and colon cancer development. Our colon cancer meeting represents the second of a series of special conferences be organized by the EMS to explore the role of environmental mutagens/carcinogens in specific diseases. Through these specialty meetings, the EMS wants to use its organizational structure and membership base to (1) bring attention to the potential role that environmental mutagens/carcinogens play in the etiology of specific diseases, (2) bring together scientists from a wide variety of disciplines [including chemistry, molecular & cellular biology, genetics, medicine and epidemiology] to focus on such problems, and (3) emphasize the critical role that environmental science plays in understanding human disease and improving human health. The conference schedule includes 6 symposia and 2 Workshops/Discussion sessions. We anticipate an attendance of 150-300 people for this 2 1/2-day Specialty Meeting. Opportunities for poster presentations will be available for participants and if sufficient support can be obtained we will offer Travel Awards to graduate and medical students and post-doctoral fellows. In order to have a permanent record of the proceedings, we have obtained initial approval from the Editor-in-Chief of the official journal of the EMS, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, to publish manuscripts from the invited speakers in a Special Issue of the journal. Finally, we are applying for continuing Medical Education (CME) accreditation so that physicians and other health-care professionals can obtain CME credit for attending this conference. External support is vital to the success of this conference and we are currently soliciting funds from government agencies as well as private foundations and industry. This support will be used to defray part of the cost for (1) travel for invited speakers, (2) advertisement and promotion of the conference, and (3) student travel awards.