Project Details
Description
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This application requests support for
travel expenses to enable young U.S. investigators to attend and participate in
the biennial Bioiron World Congress on Iron Metabolism, with a special emphasis
on increasing the participation of women, members of minority subpopulations,
persons with disabilities and other individuals who have been traditionally
underrepresented in science. The next World Congress on Iron Metabolism,
Bioiron 2001, continues the collaboration between the two major international
organizations dedicated to the investigation of iron metabolism, combining the
8th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Disorders of
Iron Metabolism with the 15th International Conference on Proteins of Iron
Metabolism. Bioiron 2001 will be held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, from
August 18 to 23, 2001. The Bioiron 2003 conference will be held in Washington,
D.C., and the international site of Bioiron 2005 will be decided at the meeting
in Australia. The Bioiron World Congress is recognized as the premier
international research conference on iron metabolism. The Bioiron conferences
bring together clinicians and basic researchers in a meeting that combines
state-of-the-art sessions and symposia given by the world's leading
investigators with peer-reviewed presentations and posters of the latest
research results. The recent explosion of progress in this field, especially
the discovery of novel genes whose products are involved in the regulation of
cellular iron uptake and distribution in humans, has made participation in this
meeting essential for the development of young U.S. investigators working in
this area. Conference abstracts are published in full and distributed to all
participants. Major topics to be considered in Bioiron 2001 include animal
models of disorders of iron metabolism, iron transport, iron in the
pathophysiology of disease, the function and pathobiology of HFE, the gene that
is mutated in most patients with hereditary hemochromatosis, the structure of
HFE and of the transferrin receptor, non-HFE-related forms of
hemochromatosis, and the current status of population screening for
hemochromatosis. Specific sessions will be devoted to the structure, regulation
and physiology of iron proteins, iron-chelating therapy, and to the roles of
iron in the cardiovascular system and in the central nervous system. The
overall goal of the Bioiron World Congress is the international dissemination
of important new research results to investigators working in the field of iron
metabolism.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 8/18/01 → 8/17/04 |
Funding
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: US$8,000.00
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: US$23,000.00
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: US$5,001.00
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Physiology
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