2006 Metals in Medicine Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：要求提供资金，以支持参加第三届GRC医学金属会议的与会者的会议登记，该会议将于2006年7月9日至14日在女王学院（英国牛津）举行。医学中的金属是无机化学和药物设计交叉的多学科会议。会议的目标是提供一个论坛，讨论用于医学应用的金属络合物和材料的一般领域的新发展。我们的目标是将无机化学家与临床医生，生物学家和物理学家聚集在一起，以确定研究机会的新兴领域，该领域目前的挑战，并提出解决方案。这次会议旨在增加学术界，政府和工业界科学家之间的沟通和合作研究工作，不仅在美国，而且在国际上。为了确保广泛的参与者，重要的是，费用不应成为受邀演讲者、讨论主席、特别是年轻人和少数民族与会者出席会议的限制因素。新的研究者将被邀请参加这次会议，在那里至少有三个简短的演讲，由助理教授，博士后研究员，或高级研究生将从海报摘要中选择。所要求的支持将使组织者能够支付这些年轻参与者的注册费用，并通过吸引该领域最前沿的演讲者来保证制定具有广度和深度的计划的灵活性。一个会议，在药用无机化学跨学科的想法，从基础科学，临床前的发展，以治疗真实的病人，可以实现和培养是一个真正独特的背景下，并提供了一个重要的场所，讨论和发展的领域作为一个整体。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to support conference registration for participants in the third GRC conference on Metals in Medicine, which will be held at Queen's College (Oxford, England) July 9-14, 2006. Metals in Medicine is a multidisciplinary conference at the intersection of inorganic chemistry and pharmaceutical design. The goal of the meeting is to provide a forum to discuss new developments in the general area of metal complexes and materials being used for medicinal applications. We aim to bring inorganic chemists together with clinicians, biologists, and physicists to identify emerging areas of research opportunity, current challenges in the field, and to propose solutions. This meeting seeks to increase communication and collaborative research efforts between scientists in academia, government, and industry, not only in the US but internationally. In order to ensure a broad range of participants it is important that cost not be a limiting factor in the attendance of invited speakers, discussion chairs, and especially younger and minority attendees. New investigators will be solicited to attend this conference, where at least three short talks by assistant professors, postdoctoral fellows, or senior graduate students will be selected from the poster abstracts. The requested support will allow the organizers to cover the cost of registration for these younger participants, as well as guaranteeing the flexibility to develop a program with breadth and depth by attracting speakers at the forefront of the field. A conference where interdisciplinary ideas in medicinal inorganic chemistry-from basic science, to preclinical development, to treating real patients-can be realized and fostered is a truly unique context, and provides a crucial venue for discussions and developing the field as a whole.