2011 International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses

描述（由申请人提供）：这个建议请求资金支持旅游费用年轻科学家参加,参加2011年国际会议在乙型肝炎病毒的分子生物学,定于10月9 - 12日,2011年在假日酒店——迪斯尼乐园度假村(R),布埃纳维斯塔湖,FL。这次会议是唯一的论坛,收集国际社会的研究,集中在乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)和δ型肝炎病毒(HDV为)密切相关。世界上大约25%的人口感染了乙肝病毒。不幸的是，尽管有预防性疫苗，但在世界范围内发生了许多新的感染，主要是因为疫苗由于费用和其他问题而未得到充分利用。此外，对于已经慢性感染HBV的约3.6亿人（其中约1500万人同时感染HDV），该疫苗没有治疗价值。因此，全世界每年有50万至100万人死于HBV/HDV。因此，基础研究和HBV/HDV研究人员之间的科学交流必须继续下去，而HBV年度会议是可以进行这种交流的场所。2011年的会议将保持并加强传统的形式，通过10个口头科学会议、2个海报会议以及较少结构化的“网络”时间进行互动和对话。本次会议将特别关注病毒与宿主的相互作用，特别强调细胞生物学、抗病毒免疫和新的治疗靶点。会议将有三个主题演讲和一个特别研讨会。和过去一样，已经尽了很大的努力把会议的费用降到最低。此外，自2005年以来，乙型肝炎基金会坚定地承诺支持这次会议，为会议的组织提供了一个永久的场所，并为会议的组织和宣传提供了工作人员，特别是在有大量少数民族的大学。为了允许初级研究人员和少数族裔研究人员参与，请NIH提供支持，以帮助支付初级科学家的会议费用。)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for funding to support the travel expenses for young scientists to attend and participate in the 2011 International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses, scheduled for October 9 - 12, 2011 at the Holiday Inn - In the Walt Disney World(R) Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL. This meeting is the only forum that gathers the international community of researchers that focus on the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the closely associated hepatitis delta virus (HDV). Approximately 25% of the world's population has been infected by HBV. Unfortunately, despite the availability of prophylactic vaccines, many new infections occur worldwide, mostly because of underutilization of the vaccine due to cost and other issues. Moreover, for the approximately 360 million people already chronically infected with HBV (approximately 15 million of whom are co-infected with HDV), the vaccine is of no therapeutic value. As a result, between 0.5 and 1 million people die of HBV/HDV every year worldwide. It is therefore imperative that basic research and the scientific exchange among those studying HBV/HDV continue, and the annual HBV meeting represents the venue at which this can occur. The 2011 meeting will uphold and enhance the traditional format and exchange with interaction and dialogue presented in 10 oral scientific sessions, 2 poster sessions as well as less structured "networking" time. A special focus of this meeting will be on virus-host interactions, with a particular emphasis on cell biology, antiviral immunity, and new therapeutic targets. This will be facilitated by three keynote addresses and a special workshop. As in the past, great effort has been made to minimize the cost of the meeting. Furthermore, the Hepatitis B Foundation has made a strong commitment to support this meeting since 2005, in terms of providing a permanent home for organizing the meeting and making its staff available for organizing the meeting and publicizing it, especially to universities with large numbers of underrepresented minorities. In order to allow the participation of junior and minority investigators, support from the NIH to help defray the meeting costs of junior scientists is requested. ) PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The 2011 Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses Meeting is the next scheduled meeting in an annual series that has been held continuously since 1985. This is the only definitive meeting that brings together basic scientists in the field of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV) from throughout the world. HBV continues to be a major global and US public health problem with more than 360 million individuals chronically infected worldwide and with an annual rate of up to one million deaths due to HBV and HBV/HDV-induced liver failure, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. The meeting is a critical and internationally well recognized platform for continued exchange of information in basic research on HBV and HDV infections.