41st-45th Annual International Narcotics Research Conferences

本拨款申请是为第41 -45届年度国际麻醉品研究会议（INRC）请求支持。第41次会议将于2010年7月11日至16日在瑞典马尔默举行，并将成为IUPHAR会议的卫星会议。与CPDD联合召开的第42届INRC会议将在美国佛罗里达州好莱坞举行。目前正在计划确定第43 -45届inrc的场地。多年来，这些会议一直是传播和交流关于阿片类药物和内源性阿片类系统生物医学研究信息的最负盛名的国际会议。主题范围从分子机制到行为研究和临床发现。要求主要支持部分旅费，以使年轻科学家，即研究生、博士后研究员和初级教员能够参加会议。受邀的研讨会发言人，通常不是INRC的参与者，将得到部分支持。要求用于行政和会议费用的资金约占所要求资金总额的10%。今年会议的全体发言人是：Tomas Hockfelt教授（瑞典卡罗林斯卡学院）、Tony Yaksh教授（美国加州大学旧金山分校）和Jorgen Engel教授（瑞典哥德堡大学）。十场专题讨论会将涵盖广泛的主题，包括新型阿片配体、阿片肽和受体的表观遗传学、阿片在神经性疼痛中的作用、酒精和赌博成瘾以及阿片-大麻素的相互作用。将选择一些相关的贡献论文，由初级研究人员在每次研讨会上口头介绍。我们将举办两场海报活动，在这两场活动中，我们会有很多的交流和讨论。此外，还计划为青年科学家举办一场数据闪电战。INRC今后的会议将采用类似的形式。只要有可能，我们计划与其他共同感兴趣的会议重叠举行。例如，今年计划与在瑞典举行的国际大麻素研究学会会议重叠一天，明年计划与美国药物依赖问题学院重叠三天。对于来自许多国家的参与者来说，INRC是他们在各自领域会面和交流思想的唯一机会。我们认为，许多pre- and - post-博士生的参与已经导致，并且很可能继续导致招募有前途的科学家从事药物滥用研究。

This grant application is to request support for the 41st-45th annual International Narcotics Research Conferences (INRC). The 41st meeting is to be held in Malmo, Sweden from July 11-16, 2010, and will be a satellite meeting to the IUPHAR meeting. The 42nd INRC, which will be a joint meeting with CPDD, will be held in Hollywood, Florida, USA. Plans are underway to finalize venues for the 43rd-45th INRCs. These conferences have been, for many years, the most prestigious international meetings for the dissemination and exchange of information about biomedical research on opiate drugs and the endogenous opioid system. The topics have ranged from molecular mechanisms to behavioral studies and clinical findings. Support is requested primarily for partial travel support to enable young scientists, i.e. graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, to participate in the Conference. Invited symposium speakers, not normally INRC participants, will receive partial support. Funds requested for administrative and meeting expenses represent ~10% of the total requested funds. The plenary speakers for this year's meeting are: Prof. Tomas Hockfelt (Karolinska, Inst, Sweden), Prof. Tony Yaksh (UCSF, USA) and Prof Jorgen Engel (G"teborg Univ., Sweden). Ten symposia will cover a wide range of topics as described in the application ranging from novel opioid ligands, epigenetics of opioid peptides and receptors, opioids in neuropathic pain, alcohol & gambling addictions and opioid-cannabinoid interactions. A number of relevant contributed papers will be chosen for oral presentation by junior investigators at each symposium. There will be two poster sessions, at which there is always much exchange and discussion. A Data-Blitz session for young scientists is also planned. Future INRC meetings will follow a similar format. Whenever possible, we plan to overlap with other conferences of mutual interest. For example, this year an overlapping day with the International Cannabinoid Research Society meeting in Sweden is planned and next year a 3 day overlap with the College on Problems of Drug Dependence in USA is planned. For participants from many countries, INRC is their only chance to meet and exchange ideas in their field. We feel that participation by many pre- and post- doctoral trainees has resulted, and is likely to continue to result, in recruiting promising scientists to a career of drug abuse research.