Conference Series: From Bedside to Bench

描述（由申请人提供）：在保持与原来的授权标题“床边板凳”，我们强调会议的翻译方面，特别是使用临床问题的框架，定义和驱动基本查询，并促进基础和临床研究者之间的互动。这一建议延续了原方案的许多成功特点;与老年医学界和NIA的投入，多学科会议有足够的时间进行互动，年轻的研究人员，少数民族研究人员和传统老龄化研究社区内外的既定领导人的参与，通过AGS年会上的专题讨论会进行传播，并通过《美国老年病学会杂志》（JAGS）以及其他媒体发表。根据AGS和NIA在过去一年中制定的优先事项，我们提出了2007-2009年要解决的三个新课题：1）“思考、运动和感觉：老年认知、情绪和运动障碍是否有重叠的因果机制？“、2）“衰老的特发性疲劳”和3）“炎症和营养代谢：相互作用是有效干预的关键。“这是一份代表美国老年医学会（AGS）与国家老龄问题研究所（NIA）老年医学和临床老年学分支合作的为期三年的U13合作会议赠款申请。本次会议资助计划的使命与最初的提案保持不变;“提高对临床老年医学问题的研究关注，这些问题在临床上是紧迫的问题，或者有可能大大改善老年人的临床护理或预防”。我们的长期目标仍然是“将研究成果转化为临床护理，改善老年人的健康状况。"

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In keeping with the original grant title "Bedside to Bench", we emphasize the translational aspect of the conferences, especially the use of clinical issues to frame, define and drive basic inquiry, and to promote interactions between basic and clinical investigators. This proposal continues many of the successful features of the original program; topics developed with input from the geriatrics community and the NIA, multidisciplinary conferences with ample time for interaction, participation by young investigators, minority investigators and established leaders from within and outside the traditional aging research community, dissemination through Symposia at the Annual Meeting of AGS and publication through the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), as well as other media. Based on priorities developed by AGS and NIA over the last year, we propose three new topics to be addressed in 2007-2009; 1) "Thinking, moving and feeling: do cognitive, mood and movement disorders of aging have overlapping causal mechanisms?", 2) "Idiopathic Fatigue of Aging," and 3) "Inflammation and nutrient metabolism: interaction as a key to effective intervention." This is an application for a three year U13 cooperative conference grant on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) in cooperation with the Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology branch of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The mission of this conference grant program remains unchanged from the initial proposal; "to heighten research attention on clinical geriatrics issues that are of pressing concern clinically or have the potential to greatly improve clinical care or prevention for older adults". Our long term goal remains to "translate research results into clinical care that will improve the health outcomes of older adults."