Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Aging 2004

Enrique Cadenas, Ph.D. University of Southern California	Oxidants and Antioxidants in Biology 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the University of Southern California project on the XIth Annual Meeting of the Oxygen Club of California on Oxidants and Antioxidants in Biology. The meeting was held March 10-13, 2004 in Santa Barbara, California. For further information see http://www.oxyclubcalifornia.org/upcoming_meetings.cfm
Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D. American Society for Investigative Pathology	Aging, Longevity Determination and Age-Associated Diseases 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,250 to help support the workshop on Aging, Longevity Determination and Age-Associated Diseases organized by the American Society for Investigative Pathology as part of the Experimental Biology 2004 FASEB Meeting held April 17-21, 2004 in Washington, DC. For further information see http://www.faseb.org/meetings/eb2004/
Jan Vijg, Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio	Second International Conference on Functional Genomics of Aging 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Second International Conference on Functional Genomics of Aging held in Hersonissos on Crete, Greece on April 28 – May 1, 2004.
Norman Wolf, D.V.M., Ph.D. American Aging Association	Molecular Mechanisms of Aging 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association: Molecular Mechanisms of Aging held June 4-7, 2004 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The deadline for early registration is April 1, 2004. For further information, see http://www.americanaging.org/2004.html#.
Christopher J. Rice,  United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation	Mitochondria and Aging 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to fund a session on Mitochondria and Aging at the Mitochondrial Medicine 2004 Conference to be held August 4-8, 2004 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For further information, see http://www.umdf.org/
Robert H. Costa, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	The Aging Liver: Molecular Mechanisms that Reduce Regeneration in the Old 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $1,530 to provide funding for an invited speaker for The Aging Liver: Molecular Mechanisms that Reduce Regeneration in the Old conference to be held August 7-12, 2004 in Snowmass, Colorado. For further information, see http://src.faseb.org/snowmass.htm
Helen M. Blau, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine	13th International Society of Differentiation, Inc. Conference 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the EMF Keynote Lecturer, Dr. Carla Shatz; the symposium on Telomerase and Aging; and scholarships for student presenters in the minisymposium on The Aging Cell to be held at the 13th International Society of Differentiation, Inc. Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii September 5-9, 2004. For further information, see http://members.aol.com/isdiff/conference.html#13.
Susan Swain, Ph.D. Trudeau Institute, Inc.	International Workshop on Aging and Immunity 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the International Workshop on Aging and Immunity to be held October, 2004 at the Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York.
Leona Samson, Ph.D. Environmental Mutagen Society	Genes, Mutations, and Disease: The Environmental Connection 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support the 35th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society on “Genes, Mutations, and Disease: The Environmental Connection” to be held October 2-6, 2004 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For further information, see http://www.ems-us.org/meetings/2004_meeting/index.asp.
Jerry W Shay, Ph.D. University of Texas Southwest Medical Center	Role of Telomeres and Telomerase in Aging and Cancer 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to fund a named speaker and travel for speakers for a special AARC conference on The Role of Telomeres and Telomerase in Aging and Cancer to be held October 26-31, 2004 in San Francisco.
S. Michal Jazwinski, Ph.D. Gerontological Society of America	Biological Section Symposia 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5000 to help support the Biological Section Symposia at the The Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting to be held November 19-23, 2004 in Washington, DC. For further information, see http://www.geron.org/AnnualMeeting/annual.htm.
Elizabeth Marincola,  American Society for Cell Biology	44th American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the minisymposium on Signaling in Cell Proliferation and Death at the 44th American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting to be held December 4-8, 2004 in Washington, DC. For further information, see http://www.ascb.org/meetings/am2004/main04mtg.html.