Route 28 Summits in Neurobiology

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求为第五次研讨会提供部分资金，为研究生和研究生研究员提供一系列优化和独特有效的培训场所。 2005年28号公路峰会的重点是中枢神经系统功能障碍中损伤、炎症和神经变性之间的新联系。 在参加教师的帮助下，学员在小型协作组中工作，以竞争性地产生和提出研究策略，解决多发性硬化症（MS），肌萎缩侧索硬化症（ALS）和脊髓损伤的当前问题。 该讲习班有45名受训人员参加，19名教员作了正式讲座。 学员和教师来自国际研究和临床社区。 目前的组委会经验丰富，在1999年、2001年、2002年和2004年举办了四次28号公路峰会。 28号公路峰会的组织者承诺实现四个目标：目标1。 为优秀学生提供接触神经生物学和相关学科领先科学家的机会。 目标二。 促进关于研讨会主题的持久和有益的跨学科互动。 目标3：在合作思考和团队规划的过程中教育学员竞争性的研究建议。 目标4。 提供一个不歧视有前途的学生与有限的旅行预算的成本包。 据我们所知，28号公路峰会研讨会提供了唯一的研究生和研究生水平的培训场所，有目的地突出了生物医学科学合作多学科研究的优势。 此外，研讨会的主题和实习生的任务提供了一个全面的介绍在疾病或损伤过程中的前沿研究，并探讨基础科学转化为临床应用所面临的问题。 这些优势在新生成的NIH路线图中明确提出，并且是NINDS计划目标的基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial funding for the 5th workshop in a series of well optimized and uniquely effective training venues for graduate students and post-graduate fellows. The 2005 Route 28 Summit focuses on the emerging links between injury, inflammation and neurodegeneration in the central nervous system dysfunction. With the help of attending faculty, trainees work in small collaborative groups to competitively produce and present research strategies addressing current issues in multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal cord injury. The workshop involves 45 trainees and formal lectures by 19 attending faculty members. Trainees and teaching faculty are drawn from the international research and clinical communities. The current organizing committee is well experienced and has produced four prior Route 28 Summits in 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2004. The organizers of the Route 28 Summits have made a commitment to attain four Aims: Aim 1. Provide outstanding student access to leading scientists in neurobiology and related disciplines. Aim 2. Promote long-lasting and rewarding cross-disciplinary interactions on the workshop topic. Aim 3. Educate trainees in the process of collaborative thinking and group planning of a competitive research proposal. Aim 4. Provide a cost package that does not discriminate against promising students with a limited travel budget. To our knowledge, the Route 28 Summit workshops provide the only graduate and post-graduate level training venue that purposefully highlights the strengths of collaborative multi-disciplinary research in the biomedical sciences. In addition, the workshop topics and trainee assignments provide a thorough introduction to cutting edge research in disease or injury processes and explore problems facing the translation of basic science into clinical application. These strengths are clearly called out in the newly generated NIH Roadmap and are fundamental to the programmatic goals of the NINDS.