Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Aging 2001

Douglas R. Green, Ph.D. Keystone Symposia	Molecular Mechanisms of Apoptosis 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology to help support the Molecular Mechanisms of Apoptosis symposium and to sponsor the plenary session on Apoptosis and Age-related Disease. The symposium was held January 16-22, 2001 in Keystone, CO.
Helen M. Blau, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Aging: Biology, Disease, and Economics 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,000 to help support the Symposium on Aging: Biology, Disease and Economics held at Stanford University School of Medicine on March 13, 2001.
Dan Bergstralh,  University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Senescence 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate student training program symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Senescence held on May 4-6, 2001.
Frank Bellino, Ph.D. National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health Charles Mobbs, Ph.D. National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health	Symposium on Endocrinology of Aging 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation contributed $2,500 to help support the Symposium on Endocrinology of Life-span Extension held June 19, 2001 at the Annual Endocrine Society Meeting in Denver, CO.
Michael E. Greenberg, Ph.D. Gordon Research Conferences	Gordon Research Conference on Neurotrophic Factors 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Gordon Research Conference on Neurotrophic Factors was held June 10-15, 2001 in Newport, Rhode Island.
Steven W. Matson, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	FASEB Summer Research Conference 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help fund the FASEB Summer Research Conference, Helicases: Structure, Function and Roles in Human Disease held at the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, VT July 7-12, 2001.
Shugang Zhang, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Second Multidisciplinary Workshop: 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Second Multidisciplinary Workshop: Self-assembling Peptide Systems in Biology, Engineering and Medicine organized by the Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, and the Center for Self-Organizing Molecular Systems, University of Leeds, UK. The symposium was held July 13-17, 2001 in Crete, Greece
James F. Nelson, Ph.D. Gordon Research Conferences	Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging: From Genetics to Physiology held at Queen's College in Oxford, England July 22-26, 2001.
Robert N. Butler, M.D., International Longevity Center	Longevity Genes: From Primitive Organisms to Man 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation contributed $10,000 to the International Longevity Center to help co-fund the Longevity Genes: From Primitive Organisms to Man workshop. The workshop was held at Canyon Ranch, Tucson, AZ October 4-7, 2001.
Philip C. Hanawalt, Ph. D. Stanford University School of Medicine	Workshop on DNA Repair and Related DNA Transactions 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Workshop on DNA Repair and Related DNA Transactions held October 4-7, 2001 at the Stanford University Alumni Association's Conference Center at Fallen Leaf, Lake Tahoe, California.
Steven N. Austad, Ph.D. Gerontological Society of America	2001 Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to help support the Scientific Symposia at the 2001 Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting held November 15-18, 2001 in Chicago.
Audrey Gordon, Esq. Progeria Research Foundation, Inc.	Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Workshop 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded $8,953 to help support, along with the National Institutes of Health, the Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Workshop held in Bethesda, Maryland on November 28-29, 2001. A diverse group of physicians and scientists discussed what research could be generated to better understand the mechanistic basis of this syndrome based upon research findings in genetics, atherosclerosis, bone metabolism, skin, endocrinology, and the cardiovascular and other systems.
Gary Striker, M.D. University of Miami School of Medicine	Workshop on Adult Stem Cells and Aging 2001 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a Workshop on Adult Stem Cells and Aging that was held November 30-December 2, 2001 in Miami, Florida.