Plan and Conduct the Hampton University Skin of Color Research Institute Skin of

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案为2013年10月25日至27日在马里兰州巴尔的摩市Harbor Court酒店举行的HUSCRI肤色研讨会2013：从工作台到病床的部分支持申请资金。自成立以来，该研讨会稳步发展，2013年的研讨会将充分利用HUSCRI与马里兰大学医学中心皮肤科和东弗吉尼亚医学院之间的多机构合作。我们将2011年HUSCRI研讨会的成功归功于美国国立卫生研究院通过NIAMS和美国国立卫生研究院罕见病研究办公室获得的部分资助（Grant 1 R13 AR061973-01）。本次研讨会旨在促进、发展和推进皮肤疾病的教育、知识和研究，这些疾病对少数种族和族裔的影响尤为严重。以“从实验室到床边”为主题，本次研讨会将提供一个教育项目，由全国公认的内科科学家和基础科学家组成的多元化小组将提供包括医学皮肤病学，公共卫生和基础科学在内的多个相关领域的最新研究进展信息。为2013年HUSCRI研讨会选择的会议主题侧重于获得更深入的皮肤病学护理差异和基本病因机制的最新发现，以及选定的炎症性皮肤疾病、色素紊乱和瘢痕疙瘩的治疗干预措施。研讨会还将同时举办一个资助写作研讨会，旨在帮助初级研究人员（特别是少数民族研究人员）如何成功地撰写研究提案并争取校外资助。拨款撰写会议的目标是：1)通过提供拨款撰写协助和资助撰写领域专家对正在进行的研究提案的直接反馈，提高新研究者（包括少数族裔研究者）获得资金的成功率；2)支持少数民族初级侦查人员参加

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is requesting funds for partial support of the HUSCRI Skin of Color Symposium 2013: From Bench to Bedside, to be held in Baltimore Maryland at the Harbor Court Hotel, October 25-27, 2013. The symposium has steadily grown since its inception, and the 2013 symposium will capitalize on a multi-institutional collaboration between the HUSCRI, and the Departments of Dermatology at University of Maryland Medical Center and Eastern Virginia Medical School. We attribute the success of the 2011 HUSCRI symposium to the partial funding received from NIH (Grant 1 R13 AR061973-01) through NIAMS and the NIH Office of Rare Disease Research. The proposed symposium is designed to promote, develop and advance the education, knowledge, and research of cutaneous disorders which disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities. Centered on the theme of "From Bench to Bedside", this Symposium will provide an educational program with a diverse panel of nationally recognized physician-scientists and basic-scientists that will provide the most current information of advances in research across multiple relevant arenas including medical dermatology, public health, and basic science. The session topics selected for the HUSCRI Symposium 2013 are focused towards gaining a greater depth of knowledge of disparities in access to dermatological care and the latest findings in the basic etiological mechanisms, and therapeutic interventions for, selected inflammatory skin disorders, pigmentary disorders, and keloids. The symposium will also feature a concurrent grant writing seminar designed to assist junior investigators (particularly minority investigators) on how to successfully write a research proposal and compete for extramural grant funding. Objectives of the grant writing session are to: 1)improve the success of new investigators including minority investigators in securing funds by providing grant writing assistance and direct feedback on ongoing research proposals from the experts in the field of grant writing; 2)support attendance of minority junior investigators to the seminar and symposium through the provision of travel fellowships and; 3)Facilitate the interaction and networking of junior investigators with senior members of the scientific and clinical community. We expect that symposium activities, including the scientific presentations, grant writing seminar, poster sessions, and other informal interactions among symposium attendees will encourage the development and increase the number of clinical, basic, and epidemiological research studies and collaborative projects in this field. This will lay the groundwork for the development of novel and improved therapeutic treatments thereby fulfilling an unmet and critical need for individuals with skin of color and dermatologic disease.