11th International Congress of Neuroimmunology

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请请求对由国际神经免疫学学会（ISNI）主办的第11届国际神经免疫学学会国际大会的部分支持，该大会将于2012年11月4日至8日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。大会之前将举行由欧洲神经免疫学学院赞助的会前活动，由神经免疫学领域的领导者代表。这次大会是由来自哈佛的Samia Khoury、Vijay Kuchroo和霍华德韦纳博士、耶鲁大学的大卫哈夫勒博士和国家卫生研究院的史蒂夫雅各布森博士组织的。神经免疫学已成为一个重要的和不断扩大的生物医学领域，涵盖了广泛的学科，从遗传学，基础免疫学和神经生物学，通过神经化学，药理学，内分泌学，神经病理学和神经免疫调节，临床免疫学和神经病学。该科学计划将涵盖正在经历最快速发展的主题，并与治疗神经炎性疾病的新方法的开发具有前瞻性相关性，包括多发性硬化症，重症肌无力，CNS神经胶质瘤和其他疾病。同期研讨会的主题将涵盖神经免疫学的几个主要领域，重点是最新的发展，如微生物组，蛋白质-聚糖相互作用，干细胞和免疫，神经退行性疾病和副肿瘤疾病的免疫。 这项申请是旅费，将用于鼓励来自世界各地，特别是来自欠发达国家的年轻和少数民族研究人员（博士前和博士后）参加。美国当地的一个组委会将进行候选人的选择。由于对转化研究的高度重视，继续医学教育学分将在大会上提供，并要求提供支持，以支付与披露信息管理和整体认证过程相关的费用，这将确保所有大会演讲都是平衡的，对参与者没有偏见。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests partial support for the 11th International Congress of the International Society of Neuroimmunology sponsored by the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI), which will take place in Boston MA, from November 4-8, 2012. The congress will be preceded by a pre-congress program sponsored by the European School of Neuroimmunology, represented by leaders in the field of neuroimmunology. The congress is organized by Drs. Samia Khoury, Vijay Kuchroo and Howard Weiner from Harvard, Dr. David Hafler from Yale, and Dr. Steve Jacobson from NIH. Neuroimmunology has become an important and continuously expanding biomedical field, encompassing a wide variety of disciplines ranging from genetics, basic immunology and neurobiology, through neurochemistry, pharmacology, endocrinology, neuropathology and neuroimmunomodulation, to clinical immunology and neurology. The scientific program will cover themes that are undergoing the most rapid developments and are prospectively relevant for the development of new approaches to treat neuroinflammatory diseases, including multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, CNS gliomas and other disorders. The topics of the concurrent symposia will cover several main areas of neuroimmunology with emphasis on the most recent developments such as the microbiome, protein-glycan interactions, stem cells and immunity, immunity in neurodegenerative diseases, and paraneoplastic diseases. This request is for travel funds and will be used to encourage young and minority investigators (pre- and postdoctoral) to attend from around the world, in particular from less developed countries. A local organizing committee in the United States will carry out the selection of candidates. Because of the heavy emphasis on translational research, Continuing Medical Education credits will be offered at the congress and support will be requested to cover the costs associated with the administration of disclosure information and the overall accreditation process, which will ensure all congress presentations are balanced and free of bias for the participants.