22nd Annual Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS

描述（由申请人提供）： 该会议补助金（R13）申请要求资金部分支付规划、组织、宣传和主办第22届非人类灵长类动物艾滋病模型年度研讨会的费用。研讨会将于2004年11月3日至6日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的Westin Riverwalk酒店举行，由西南国家灵长类动物研究中心和西南生物医学研究基金会主办。本次会议是利用非人灵长类动物模型介绍和交流艾滋病研究最新科学进展的主要论坛。将介绍灵长类动物发病机制、免疫学、基因组学、病毒学、疫苗和治疗学的最新发现。预计将有来自美国和其他国家的300多名科学家参加。研讨会将包括5个半天的科学会议和一个海报会议。会议将是：病毒学，发病机制，免疫学，疫苗和治疗/基因组学。每场会议将有一名特邀主席，他将在会议前半部分开始时作25分钟的最新情况介绍;一名联合主席，他将主持会议并回答问题;以及一名特邀发言者，他还将在会议后半部分开始时作25分钟的发言。此外，还将邀请一名主旨发言人和一名宴会发言人，他们将讨论全球艾滋病危机和相关公共卫生问题的科学方法和关切。由代表广泛地理和机构分布的14名成员组成的科学计划委员会将审查摘要，并为每个科学会议分配口头或海报演示。委员会成员将包括来自各种科学学科的领域领导人。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。演讲者将被邀请以手稿的形式提交他们的演讲，以便在医学灵长类学杂志上发表。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，海报会议期间的招待会，以及在西南艺术和工艺学校举行的晚宴，以及沿着圣安东尼奥河的游船。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference grant (R13) application requests funds to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 22nd Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS. The symposium will be held November 3-6, 2004 at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas and will be hosted by the Southwest National Primate Research Center, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. This meeting is the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of the most recent scientific advances in AIDS research utilizing the nonhuman primate model. The latest findings in primate pathogenesis, immunology, genomics, virology, vaccines and therapeutics will be presented. It is anticipated that more than 300 scientists from the United States and other countries will attend. The symposium will encompass 5 half-day scientific sessions and a poster session. The sessions will be: Virology, Pathogenesis, Immunology, Vaccines, and Therapeutics/Genomics. Each session will have an invited Chair, who will give a 25-minute state-of-the-art presentation to open the first half of the session, a co-Chair, who will moderate the session and entertain questions, and an invited speaker, who will also provide a 25-minute talk to open the second half of the session. In addition, there will be an invited keynote opening speaker and a banquet speaker, who will address scientific approaches and concerns regarding the global AIDS crisis and related issues of public health. A Scientific Program Committee consisting of fourteen members representing a broad geographic and institutional distribution will review abstracts and assign oral or poster presentation for each of the scientific sessions. Committee members will include leaders in the field from a variety of 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. Those 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 accommodated in one of the platform sessions. The conference will also include an opening reception on the day of arrival, a reception accompanying the poster session, and an evening banquet at the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts with a preceding boat cruise along the San Antonio river.