5th Comparative Medicine Resource Center Director Mtg.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请申请资金支持第五届比较医学资源中心主任会议，以及随后的两次两年一次的会议。这些会议的目的是为国家研究资源中心（NCRR）资助的资源中心主任提供一个论坛，讨论与履行NCRR使命有关的共同问题和问题，接受NCRR的投入和指导，并就共同的解决方案分享想法。第一次（第五次）会议将于2004年10月6日至7日在贝塞斯达假日酒店举行，为期两天。随后的两年一次的会议将在西雅图华盛顿大学举行，然后再次在贝塞斯达举行。以前的会议分别在1998年4月（迈阿密大学/罗森斯蒂尔海洋与大气科学学院）、1999年4月（弗吉尼亚州马纳萨斯美国类型文化收藏馆）、2000年6月（缅因州巴尔港杰克逊实验室）和2002年11月（德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥西南地区灵长类动物研究中心）举行。这些会议的讨论和后续行动项目帮助资源主任认识到他们面临的许多问题的共性，并帮助他们处理各种共同关注的问题。在第五次会议上讨论或提出的主题将包括NIH路线图和NCRR对NCRR资源的新战略计划的影响，资源主任对其项目的最新情况，以及NCRR资助的新项目的概要。按照前几次会议的惯例，在董事会议之后将立即举行另外三次会议：无特定病原体恒河猴群体受助人、黑猩猩管理计划受助人和承包商以及突变小鼠区域资源中心首席研究员和联合研究员。今后两年期会议的主题事项将由新成立的指导委员会制定，该委员会代表各种资源。由于参与者的重叠，将资源主管会议与其他会议分组为ncrr资助的受资助者提供了一种具有成本效益和时间效率的方法，使他们能够从具有共同关注的人之间直接讨论的协同作用中受益，但这些人不太可能参加相同的主题科学会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to support the Fifth Comparative Medicine Resource Center Directors' Meeting, as well as two subsequent biennial meetings. The purpose of these meetings is to provide a forum for Directors of Resource Centers funded by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to discuss common issues and problems relevant to fulfilling the mission of NCRR, to receive input and guidance from NCRR, and to share ideas for common solutions. The initial (Fifth) meeting will be held in Bethesda at the Holiday Inn Bethesda for 2 days on October 6-7, 2004. The subsequent biennial meetings will be held at the University of Washington, Seattle and then again in Bethesda. Previous meetings have been held in April 1998 (University of Miami/Rosenstielhl School of Marine and Atmospheric Science), April 1999 (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA), June 2000 (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME), and November 2002 (San Antonio, TX/Southwest Regional Primate Research Center). The discussion and follow up action items of these meetings have helped Resource Directors recognize the commonality of many of the issues they face and helped them to deal with a variety of common concerns. Topics to be discussed or presented at the Fifth meeting will include the impact of the NIH Roadmap and NCRR's new strategic plan on NCRR resources, updates from Resource Directors on their programs, and synopses of new NCRR-funded programs. Following the practice of previous meetings, three additional meetings will be held immediately after the Directors' meeting: the Specific Pathogen Free Rhesus Macaque Colony grantees, the Chimpanzee Management Plan grantees and contractors, and the Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers principal investigators and co-investigators. The subject matter of the subsequent biennial meetings will be developed by a newly established Steering Committee that has representation of the diverse resources. Because of the overlap in participants, grouping of the Resource Directors' Meeting with the additional meetings provides a cost-effective, time-efficient means for NCRR-funded grantees to have discussions that will benefit from the synergy of direct discussions among people with common concerns, but who would be unlikely to attend the same topical scientific meetings.