10th-12th Conferences: Drug Abuse/Immunomodulation/AIDS

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一项资助第10届、第11届和第12届神经免疫药理学学会会议（SNIP）的提案。下一届（第10届）SNIP会议将于2004年3月24日至28日在新墨西哥州的圣达菲举行，其他会议将分别于2005年和2006年秋季举行。这些会议的目的是探讨滥用药物调节神经免疫轴的能力的性质。将举办专题讨论会，讨论范围广泛的科学问题，重点是调节宿主对包括艾滋病毒在内的某些传染性病原体的抗性的机制基础。由SNIP会议程序委员会选择的演讲将包括对滥用药物的神经免疫药理学领域的基础，临床和流行病学研究的最新进展的讨论，特别强调转化研究。第十届会议的主题将包括：处理药物引起的免疫调节的生物化学信号通路和分子机制问题的基础研究;处理受艾滋病毒感染的药物滥用人群中宿主-寄生虫相互作用性质的临床研究;对药物滥用与艾滋病毒感染后神经变性之间关系的流行病学分析。由于培训青年科学家是会议的一个关键目标，将向大约12名研究生和博士后研究员颁发青年研究员奖，他们将在会议上介绍他们的研究成果。此外，还计划在会议期间的重要时间举行一次专题讨论会，由5-6名青年科学家作口头介绍。为了宣传会议的成果，各专题讨论会的主席将撰写一份会议所涉专题的综述，然后将综述与会议上每位发言者的短文合并。这六个章节将经过同行评审，一经接受，将作为《神经免疫学杂志》的一卷出版。会议委员会的结构确保了发言者和与会科学家的种族和性别多样性。学会建立了一个网站，<www.snip. org>将用于宣传会议和报告会上提出的重要成果。网站和邮寄小册子相结合，应能保证广泛传播有关会议的信息，并保证公布的结果得到宣传。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to fund the 10th, 1lth, and 12th Conferences of the Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology (SNIP). The next (10th) SNIP Conference will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico from March 24-28, 2004 while the other meetings will be held Fall, 2005 and 2006 respectively. The purpose of these meetings is to explore the nature of the capacity of drugs of abuse to modulate the neuroimmune axis. Symposia will be presented which cover a broad range of scientific issues, with an emphasis on the mechanistic basis for the modulation of host resistance to certain infectious agents, including HIV. The presentations, selected by the SNIP Conference Program Committee, will include a discussion of the most recent advances in basic, clinical, and epidemiologic research into the area of the neuroimmunopharmacology of drugs of abuse with a special emphasis on translational research. Topics at the 10th Conference will include: basic research dealing with issues of biochemical signaling pathways and molecular mechanisms of drug-induced immunomodulation; clinical studies dealing with the nature of the host-parasite interactions in HIV-infected drug-abuse populations; epidemiological analysis of the association of drug abuse with neurodegeneration following HIV infection. Since training of young scientists is a critical goal of the Conference, young investigator awards will be given to approximately a dozen graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who will present their research findings at the meeting. In addition, a symposium is planned to permit the oral presentation by 5-6 young scientists at a prominent time during the meeting. To publicize the results of the Conference, the chairs of each symposium will write a review of the topics covered in their session, which will then be combined with short papers from each presenter in the session. The six chapters will then be peer-reviewed and, upon acceptance, published as a volume of the Journal of Neuroimmunology. The Conference Committee has been structured to assure of ethnic and gender diversity among both the speakers and participating scientists. The Society has established a web site, <www.snip. org>, which will be used to advertise the conference and to report on significant results presented at the meeting. The combination of the web site, and a brochure mailing should guarantee wide dissemination of information regarding the meeting, and guarantee publicity for the published results.