Support for the 7th Aquatic Models of Human Disease Conference

支持第七届人类疾病水生模型会议

• 批准号: 8785856
• 负责人: RONALD B WALTER
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8785856
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aquatic animal models have played important roles in advancing our understanding of the origins of human disease and have also contributed to the study and identification of drug targets and tests associated with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease. In many cases, the best choice for an animal model of human disease is aquatic; the most-widely known is zebrafish but the community of investigators exploiting the unique attributes of extremely varied aquatic animals to address heretofore unapproachable questions related to human disease is growing. These unique aquatic animal models represent a wide-range of innovative studies, methods and technologies that improve the conceptual understanding of the complexity of human disease. The Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference is the primary conference that focuses broadly on multiple aquatic models used to investigate the full range of human diseases. It is unique compared to any other conference or venue in providing a forum for the entire breadth of investigator's approaches to a wide collection of aquatic models that are employed to better understand a large spectrum of human diseases. The 7th conference in this series seeks to bring together researchers from the U.S. and around the world that employ aquatic animal models in their studies of human diseases, The conference will be hosted by the Texas State University and held outside Austin, Texas on December 13-18, 2014. The program has been designed by recognized leaders in the field to provide state-of-the-art information on advances in the use of aquatic animals in biomedical research. The dissemination of information, formal and informal engagement in discussion, and collaborative exchange of ideas will be achieved through a series of platform and poster sessions as well as four "break-out" workshops. New investigators, women, investigators with disabilities and under-represented minorities will be actively recruited to participate in this meeting through mechanisms such as travel awards. Representatives from funding institutes will be invited and encouraged to participate in all aspects of the meeting, especially the final session on priorities of human disease research and strategies for guiding extramural support. The proceedings from past meetings have been published in special issues of a scientific journal and we will continue that mechanism for dissemination as well as attempt to publish a book that will provide a comprehensive review of the state of aquatic animal models and their use in human disease research. The science presented at this meeting will have a great impact in providing new approaches to the study of human disease and will simultaneously provide a forum to recruit new investigators into this field. One outcome of these gatherings and this meeting in particular, is to provide new investigators with the ideas, background and mentoring required to improve the quality of grant applications submitted to multiple NIH institutes. Relevance to Public Health: The focus of this conference is on the development and application of animal models to study human disease. Aquatic animals have many advantages and attributes that can make them superior choices compared to rodent or other mammalian models to investigate complex scientific questions. The main outcome of this meeting will be dissemination of this knowledge, training and mentoring of new investigators in this field and will result in the pursuit of novel and innovative approaches designed to provide results, information and knowledge that will contribute to improving human health across a broad collection of diseases.

描述（由申请人提供）：水生动物模型在促进我们对人类疾病起源的理解方面发挥了重要作用，并且也有助于研究和鉴定与诊断，预防和治疗疾病有关的药物靶标和测试。在许多情况下，人类疾病动物模型的最佳选择是水生的。最广为人知的是斑马鱼，但研究人员的社区利用了极其多样化的水生动物的独特属性来解决与人类疾病有关的迄今难以接近的问题。这些独特的水生动物模型代表了广泛的创新研究，方法和技术，以提高对人类疾病复杂性的概念理解。人类疾病的水生动物模型是主要会议，该会议广泛地集中在用于研究人类疾病的多种水生模型上。与任何其他会议或场所相比，它是独一无二的，在提供一个论坛，以为调查人员的整个方法提供了广泛的方法，用于更好地了解各种各样的人类疾病。本系列的第七届会议旨在将美国和世界各地的研究人员聚集在一起，这些研究人员将在其人类疾病研究中采用水生动物模型，该会议将由德克萨斯州立大学主持，并于12月13日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀郊外举行。 2014年18日。该计划是由该领域公认的领导者设计的，以提供有关生物医学研究中水生动物进步的最新信息。 通过一系列平台和海报会议以及四个“突破性”研讨会，将实现信息传播信息，正式和非正式参与以及思想的协作交流。新的调查人员，妇女，残疾调查人员和代表性不足的少数民族将被积极招募，以通过旅行奖等机制参加这次会议。将邀请并鼓励资助机构的代表参加会议的各个方面，尤其是关于人类疾病研究的优先事项和指导壁外支持的策略的最后会议。过去的会议的程序已在科学期刊的特殊问题上发表，我们将继续传播该机制，并试图出版一本书，该书将对水生动物模型及其在人类疾病中的使用进行全面审查研究。在这次会议上介绍的科学将在为研究人类疾病的研究提供新的方法上产生重大影响，并同时提供一个论坛，以招募新的研究人员进入该领域。这些聚会，尤其是这次会议的结果是，为新的调查人员提供了提高提交给多个NIH机构的赠款申请质量所需的想法，背景和指导。与公共卫生的相关性：这次会议的重点是动物模型在研究人类疾病中的发展和应用。与啮齿动物或其他哺乳动物模型相比，水生动物具有许多优势和属性，可以使它们成为优越的选择，以研究复杂的科学问题。这次会议的主要结果将是传播这一知识，培训和指导该领域的新调查人员，并将导致追求旨在提供结果，信息和知识的新颖和创新方法，从而有助于改善人类健康广泛的疾病收集。