GNE 2007: Global NeuroEngineering 2007

描述(申请人提供)：2007年全球神经工程(GNE2007)会议将允许国际神经科学和技术界的主要成员齐聚一堂，讨论现代大脑研究关键主题领域的最新进展、机会和挑战。此外，GNOE 2007将提供一个论坛，以探索这些进步的社会、伦理和社会影响，并探索促进和加速基础神经科学研究、应用临床医学和所产生技术的商业化进展的途径。GNOE 2007还将作为国际神经科学网络的开幕活动，该项目旨在将世界各地领先的神经科学机构和中心联系起来，帮助确定脑研究的全球议程。INN项目由最近成立的国际神经科学网络基金会(INNF)赞助，其主要目标之一是促进国际合作，以解决基础和临床神经科学中的基本问题。国际神经科学基金会还致力于帮助发展中国家建立世界级的神经科学研究中心和研究所。为了展示国际神经科学基金会对这一事业的承诺，2007年全球神经科学大会将由新成立的纳塔尔国际神经科学研究所主办，这是一项新的神经科学研究倡议，由一群在美国一流大学工作的巴西神经科学家提出。通过一系列私人捐赠和与巴西政府的合作，国际神经科学研究所已被创建，作为国际神经科学网络在拉丁美洲的“第一个节点”。通过在巴西纳塔尔举办GNOE 2007，国际神经科学基金会将能够邀请来自拉丁美洲各地的学生参加一次会议，该会议将汇集在现代神经科学许多领域工作的顶尖科学家。因此，这样的活动将允许来自拉丁美洲和美国的神经科学家的学生和教职员工进行互动，并可能在美国一流学术机构和拉美最好的大学之间建立合作。神经科学研究的全球爆炸性增长以及这一多学科领域出现的尖端技术导致了对正常大脑功能以及神经疾病潜在病理生理机制的基本理解的突破性进展。这些进展有可能影响全球数百万人，因为它们为阿尔茨海默氏症或帕金森氏症等严重疾病以及由疾病或伤害引起的其他神经损伤提供了新的治疗方法。GNOE 2007将汇集来自美国、欧洲和日本的顶尖神经学家以及来自拉丁美洲各地的学生，以及有兴趣为将新思想和技术转化到临床舞台做出贡献的私营生物医药行业的主要成员，并为建立全球脑研究议程和出现可能对神经科学的未来产生重大影响的广泛国际合作奠定基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 2007 Global Neuroengineering (GNE 2007) conference will allow key members of the international neuroscience and technology community to come together to discuss recent advances, opportunities, and challenges in key thematic areas of modern brain research. In addition, GNE 2007 will provide a forum to explore the social, ethical, and societal implications of these advances, and to explore pathways that could facilitate and accelerate advances in fundamental neuroscience research, applied clinical medicine, and commercialization of resulting technologies. GNE 2007 will also serve as the inaugural event of the International Neuroscience Network, a project that aims at linking leading neuroscience institutes and centers around the world to help define a global agenda for brain research. One of the main goals of the INN project, sponsored by the recently created International Neuroscience Network Foundation (INNf), is fostering international collaborations that can address fundamental questions in basic and clinical neuroscience. The INNf also aims at helping the creation of world class neuroscience research centers and institutes in developing nations. As a way to demonstrate the commitment of the INNf to this cause, the GNE 2007 will be hosted by the newly created International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal (IINN), a new neuroscience research initiative put forward by a group of Brazilian neuroscientists who work in leading universities in the United States. Through a series of private donations and a partnership with the Brazilian government, the IINN has been created to serve as the "first node" of the International Neuroscience Network in Latin America. By holding the GNE 2007 in Natal, Brazil, the INNf will be able to invite students from all over Latin America to participate in a meeting that will bring together leading scientists working in many areas of modern neuroscience. Such an event, therefore, will allow students and faculty from Latin America and US based neuroscientists to interact and likely establish collaborations between leading US academic institutions and the best Latin American universities. The global explosion of neuroscience research and the resulting cutting edge technologies emerging from this multidisciplinary field have led to groundbreaking advancements in the fundamental understanding of normal brain function as well as to pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neurological disorders. These advances have the potential to impact millions of people worldwide by providing new treatments for serious illnesses such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, as well as other neural impairments induced by disease or injury. GNE 2007 will bring together leading neuroscientists from the US, Europe, and Japan, as well as students from all over Latin America, along with leading members of the private biomedical industry interested in contributing to the translational of new ideas and technologies to the clinical arena and set the stage for the establishment of a global brain research agenda and for the emergence of broad international collaborations that are likely to significantly impact the future of neuroscience.