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Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Global Infectious Disease 2003

Robert Harwood, Ph.D.
Keystone Symposia
Tuberculosis: Integrating Host and Pathogen Biology
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a Keystone Symposia workshop on Tuberculosis: Integrating Host and Pathogen Biology held in Taos, New Mexico on January 25-30, 2003.

Kami Kim, M.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
T. gondii: Relevance to Other Experimental Systems
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the session on T. gondii: Relevance to Other Experimental Systems at the Seventh International Congress on Toxoplasmosis held on May 23-27, 2003 in Tarrytown, New York.

Ron Yasbin, Ph.D.
University of Texas - Dallas
Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support the Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology, an international meeting of senior researchers, younger scientists, and students. The conference will be held in June 2003 in Estes Park, Colorado.

Scott Halstead, M.D.
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Dengue Virus: Molecular Basis of Cell Entry & Pathogenesis
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Third Workshop: Dengue Virus: Molecular Basis of Cell Entry and Pathogenesis to be held June 25-27, 2003 in Vienna, Austria.

William Martone, M.D.
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
International Problems in Antimicrobial Resistance
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the symposium on International Problems in Antimicrobial Resistance at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases 2003 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance. The Conference will be held in Bethesda, Maryland on June 23-25, 2003.

Isaar Smith, Ph.D.
Public Health Research Institute
Infectious Diseases and Threats to Public Health
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the PHRI 2003 Symposium on Infectious Diseases and Threats to Public Health held November 3, 2003 in Newark, New Jersey. The program included presentations on TB, HIV, West Nile virus, SARS and potential agents of bioterrorism such as anthrax and smallpox.

Wayne M. Gez, Ph.D.
University of California - Berkeley
Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a short course on Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis held at the Workshop on HIV-AIDS at the University’s Berkeley Campus South African Centre in Cape Town, South Africa on December 1-5, 2003.

Jane M. Carlton, Ph.D.
Institute for Genomic Research
The Genome and Biology of the Trichomonads
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,500 to help support a workshop on the Genome and Biology of the Trichomonads held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 2-4, 2003.

John H. Adams, Ph.D.
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
American Committee of Molecular, Cellular, and Immuno-Parasitology
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the American Committee of Molecular, Cellular, and Immuno-Parasitology at the annual meeting of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 3-7, 2003.

Gary J. Weil, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
Filariasis Research Summit and Forum on Research
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $9,996 to help support two inter-related meetings, the Filariasis Research Summit on December 7-8, 2003 and the Forum on Research Needed to Support the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis on December 7-10, 2003 held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Karen Horting, 
New York Academy of Sciences
Emerging Infectious Diseases Discussion Group
2003 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $20,000 and has pledged $20,000/year for 2 additional years to support an Emerging Infectious Diseases Discussion Group at the New York Academy of Sciences. This group will meet at regular intervals to discuss current topics in emerging infectious diseases. The Academy provides e-briefings of the discussions, and a schedule of upcoming discussions, via a portal on its website at http://www.nyas.org/scitech/eid.cfm