Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Aging 2002

Ian D. Hickson, Ph.D. Keystone Symposia	DNA Helicases, Cancer and Aging 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a Keystone Symposia workshop on DNA Helicases, Cancer and Aging was held in Tahoe City, California on March 12-17, 2002
L. Jo Parrish, M.A., M.B.A. Society for Women's Health Research	Conference on Sex and Gene Expression 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help fund a Conference on Sex and Gene expression held April 4-7, 2002 in San Jose, California. The conference will examine such topics as the relationship between steroid hormones, cell death, and cancer; sex differences in immunology; and model systems for understanding sex differences in development.
Jan Vijg, Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio	Functional Genomics of Aging 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help fund the Functional Genomics of Aging conference held in Seville, Spain April 24-27, 2002. This conference covered integrated genomic circuits that control mechanisms of aging, survival, and stress responses.
Lawrence Loeb, M.D., Ph.D. Environmental Mutagen Society	Mitochondrial Damage in Aging and Carcinogenesis 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the symposium on Mitochondrial Damage in Aging and Carcinogenesis held at the Environmental Mutagen Society 33rd Annual Meeting April 27-May 2, 2002 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Paula Bickford, Ph.D. American Aging Association	Aging from Molecules to Humans: Translation Research on Aging for the Year 2002 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the American Aging Association annual meeting on Aging from Molecules to Humans: Translation Research on Aging for the Year 2002 held June 7-11, 2002 in San Diego, California.
Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	FASEB Summer Research Conference 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the FASEB Summer Research Conference 2002 on Post-transcriptional Control of Gene expression: Effectors of mRNA Decay held July 6-11, 2002 in Tucson, Arizona.
Lawrence A. Loeb, M.D., Ph.D. University of Washington	George Martin Symposium: Frontiers of Aging Research 2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the George Martin Symposium: Frontiers of Aging Research. This symposium, in honor of Dr. Martin's 75th birthday and his innumerable contributions to aging research, was held September 17-18, 2002 at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Dale Bredesen, M.D. Buck Institute for Age Research Tom Johnson, Ph.D. Buck Institute for Age Research Gordon Lithgow, Ph.D. Buck Institute for Age Research Simon Melov, Ph.D. Buck Institute for Age Research	Buck Institute Symposia on Aging  2002 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Aging The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help fund the Buck Institute 2002 Inaugural Symposia on Aging to be held at the Buck Institute, Novato, CA September 24-27, 2002. The Symposia will provide an exploration of basic animal models of aging with an emphasis on stress and the insulin-signaling pathway and relate these areas to human physiology and disease. For further information, see www.buckinstitute.org/symposium.