Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Global Infectious Disease 2002

Diane Griffin, M.D., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University	Malaria: Progress, Problems and Plans in the Genomic Era 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $25,000 to help support the Conference on Malaria: Progress, Problems and Plans in the Genomic Era held January 27-29, 2002 at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
T.V. Rajan, M.D., Ph.D. University of Connecticut Health Center	Workshop on Modern Concepts and Understanding of Parasitic Diseases 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $14,000 to help support the Workshop on Modern Concepts and Understanding of Parasitic Diseases held in Bhubaneswar, India in February 2002.
Georgia Pangiotakos,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Conference on Infectious Disease 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $4,000 to help support an undergraduate student-organized Conference on Infectious Disease co-sponsored by the Harvard and MIT Hippocratic Societies. The conference was held March 9-10, 2002 at Harvard University and provided a forum for undergraduate students to discuss and examine the ethical, scientific, legal and economic implications of infectious disease with leaders in the field.
Ronald Germain, M.D., Ph.D. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health	Dendritic Cells at the Host Pathogen Interface 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help fund the Dendritic Cells at the Host Pathogen Interface Conference held in Airlie, Virginia May 4-7,2002.
Scott Halstead, M.D. Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine	Antibody Protection against Viral Infections: Special Reference toDengue 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $25,000 to help fund a workshop on Antibody Protection against Viral Infections: Special Reference to Dengue held in Bethesda, Maryland June 3-4, 2002.
Norma W. Andrews, Ph.D. Gordon Research Conferences	Conference on Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Conference on Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions held June 16-21, 2002 in Newport, Rhode Island.
William T. Speck, M.D. Marine Biological Laboratory	Colloquia on the Biology of Aging and on Global Infectious Disease 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation has committed up to $311,940 to support colloquia on the Biology of Aging and on Global Infectious Disease to be held in alternating years from 2002-2004 at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	FASEB Summer Research Conference 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $3,060 to help support the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Protein Lipidation, Signaling and Membrane Domains held July 20-25 in Tucson, Arizona
Wieslaw J. Kozek, Ph.D. University of Puerto Rico	Endosymbiont Symposium 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,500 to help support the Endosymbiont Symposium, 10th International Congress of Parasitology held August 4-9, 2002 in Vancouver, Canada.
Irene Eckstrand, Ph.D. National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health	Evolution of Infectious Diseases 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,620 to help support the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Conference on The Evolution of Infectious Diseases held August 29-30, 2002 in Bethesda, Maryland.
David A. Relman, M.D. American Academy of Microbiology	The Global Genome Question: Microbes as the Key to Understanding Evolution and Ecology 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support The Global Genome Question: Microbes as the Key to Understanding Evolution and Ecology colloquium, American Academy of Microbiology to be held October 11-13, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina.
John H. Adams, Ph.D. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	Symposium on Molecular Parasitology 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the ASTMH's 51st Annual Meeting, Symposium on Molecular Parasitology, to be held November 10-14, 2002 in Denver, Colorado.
Walter M. Bortz II, M.D. Active Learning Institute	Dynamics and Energetic Bases of Health and Aging 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a workshop on the Dynamics and Energetic Bases of Health and Aging held November 11-13, 2002 in Bethesda, MD.