International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium

简介（由申请人提供）：国际猫逆转录病毒研究研讨会（IFRRS）是一个两年一次的研讨会，自1991年以来在欧洲和美国轮流举行。本次研讨会的主要目的是作为一个科学论坛，传播和交流国际科学界利用自然和实验性猫逆转录病毒感染作为人类艾滋病和白血病模型的新研究成果、想法和方向。本次会议拨款申请要求为第十届国际猫逆转录病毒研究研讨会提供部分资金支持。研讨会将于2010年5月23日至26日在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的Mills House酒店和Hibernian Hall举行。会议计划已确定，会议主席和主讲人已确定。申请资金用于提供少数民族专题讨论会补助金，减少研究生的注册费，补贴主讲人和会议主席的费用。举办本次研讨会的额外费用将由与会者支付的注册费以及商业（制药和生物技术公司）、学术和私人机构的捐款支付。目前还没有其他的会议能把利用猫科动物模型进行逆转录病毒研究的国际科学界聚集在一起。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium (IFRRS) is a bi-annual symposium that has been alternately held in Europe and USA since 1991. The main objective of this symposium is to serve as a scientific forum to disseminate and exchange new research findings, ideas, and directions by an international scientific community that utilize natural and experimental feline retrovirus infection as a model for human AIDS and leukemia. This conference grant application requests funds to partially support the 10th International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Mills House Hotel and Hibernian Hall in Charleston, South Carolina on May 23-26, 2010. The symposium program is established and the session chairs and keynote speaker identified. Funds are requested to provide minority symposium grants, reduce registration fees for graduate students and subsidize expenses for keynote speakers and session chairs. Additional costs for running this symposium will be covered by registration fees paid by conferees and by contributions made by commercial (pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies), academic, and private institutions. There is no other meeting that brings together the international scientific community involved in retroviral research employing the feline model. The International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium (IFRRS) is a bi-annual symposium that has been alternately held in Europe and USA since 1991. The main objective of this symposium is to serve as a scientific forum to disseminate and exchange new research findings, ideas, and directions by an international scientific community that utilize natural and experimental feline retrovirus infection as a model for human AIDS and leukemia. This conference grant application requests funds to partially support the 10th International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Mills House Hotel and Hibernian Hall in Charleston, South Carolina on May 23-26, 2010. Funds are requested to provide minority symposium grants, reduce registration fees for graduate students and subsidize expenses for keynote speakers and session chairs. Additional costs for running this symposium will be covered by registration fees paid by conferees and by contributions made by commercial (pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies), academic, and private institutions. There is no other meeting that brings together the international scientific community involved in retroviral research employing the feline model.