Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Aging 2003

James Smith, Ph.D. Gerontological Society of America	Anti-Aging Medicine: The Hype and Reality 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $15,000 to help support a special publication of the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences “Anti-Aging Medicine: The Hype and Reality.
Caleb E. Finch, Ph.D. University of Southern California	Symposium on Organisms with Slow Aging 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support the Symposium on Organisms with Slow Aging held at the University of Southern California on January 17-18, 2003.
Eugenia Wang, Ph.D. Gordon Research Conferences	The Biology of Aging 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support the Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging held in Ventura, California on March 9-14, 2003.
Vilhelm Bohr, M.D., Ph.D., D.S National Academy of Sciences	Workshop on Werner Syndrome 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support an international workshop on Werner syndrome held in May 2003 in Bethesda, Maryland. The workshop will cover the biological functions of the gene product (WRN) that is defective in the premature aging disorder, Werner syndrome, its pathophysiologic consequences, and potential for experimental therapeutic strategies.
Smita S. Patel, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	Helicases: Structure, Function and Roles in Human Disease 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Helicases: Structure, Function and Roles in Human Disease to be held in Saxtons River, Vermont on June 28-July 3, 2003.
Susan T. Lovett, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	Genetic Recombination and Genomic Rearrangements 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Genetic Recombination and Genomic Rearrangements conference to be held July 26-31, 2003 in Snowmass, Colorado. For further information see: http://src.faseb.org/pre_prog.htm#snow Application for registration due June 2, 2003 - see: https://mercury.faseb.org/meetings/src2003/src.asp
Jorge Galan, D.V.M., Ph.D. Gordon Research Conferences	Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Adhesion 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to sponsor the “Modulation of the Innate and Acquired Immunity by Microbial Pathogens” section of the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Adhesion to be held July 27-August 1, 2003 in Newport, Rhode Island. For further information, see: http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2003/micradhe.htm For application to register, see: http://www.grc.uri.edu/attend.htm
Shugang Zhang, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Third Multidisciplinary Workshop on Self-assembly of Peptides and Proteins in Biology, Medicine, & Engineering 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Third Multidisciplinary Workshop on Self-assembly of Peptides and Proteins in Biology, Medicine, & Engineering 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 will be held August 1-5, 2003 in Crete, Greece. . Registration deadline – July 1, 2003. For further information, see: http://web.mit.edu/lms/creteworkshop2003/
Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. International Association of Biomedical Gerontology, Omaha, NE	Engineered Negligible Senescence 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the keynote addresses at the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology 10th Congress on Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence: Reasons Why Genuine Control of Aging may be Foreseeable. The IABG’s 10th Congress will be held at Queen’s College, Cambridge, UK on September 19-23, 2003. Early registration deadline – June 15, 2003. For further information, see: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/iabg10/
Vilhelm Bohr, M.D., Ph.D., D.S National Academy of Sciences	1st US-EU DNA Repair and Endogenous Stress Meeting 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,000 to support the named session on Telomeric Function and DNA Repair at the 1st US-EU DNA Repair and Endogenous Stress Meeting held in Leesburg, Virginia on October 14-18, 2003.
Olivia M. Pereira-Smith, Ph.D. Gerontological Society of America	The Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,351 to support symposia on Early Origins of Age-Related Disease and Protein Aggregation in Single, Double and Triple Neurodegenerative Brain Amyloidoses at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting held San Diego, California on November 21-24, 2003.
Nir Barzilai, M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University	The Genetics of Human Longevity 2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $9,500 to help support the International Symposium on the Genetics of Human Longevity held in the Lake of Galilee area of Israel on December 1-4, 2003.