Conferences, Workshops & Education Awards in Global Infectious Disease 2004

David S. Roos, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	Molecular Approaches to Malaria 2004 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the University of Pennsylvania project on The Molecular Approaches to Malaria 2004 held February 1-5, 2004 in Lorne, Victoria, Australia.
Carol Colgan,  American Academy of Microbiology	From Outside to Inside: Environmental Microorganisms as Human Pathogens 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the workshop “From Outside to Inside: Environmental Microorganisms as Human Pathogens” held in Portland, Oregon on February 6-8, 2004.
Georgia Pangiotakos,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2004 Conference on International Health 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support an undergraduate student-organized Conference on International Health co-sponsored by the Harvard and MIT Hippocratic Societies. The conference was held February 21-22, 2004 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For further information, see http://www.hippocraticsociety.org/
Louis H. Miller, M.D. New York University Post-Graduate Medical School	Vaccines: Symposium in Honor of Dr. Ruth Nussenzweig 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support Vaccines: Symposium in Honor of Dr. Ruth Nussenzweig held March 22-23, 2004 at NYU School of Medicine.
Robert Harwood, Ph.D. Keystone Symposia	The Pathogen-Host Standoff: Persistent and Latent Infection (X5) 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support Keynote Addresses and the Host Control of Persistence Plenary Session at the Pathogen Host Standoff Keystone Symposia held March 25-30, 2004 in Taos, New Mexico. For further information, see http://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=695
Dror Baruch, Ph.D. American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)	Laboratory Practices/Malaria Research in Africa 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $3,500 to support a project on Good Laboratory Practices: Principles and Practical Applications for Malaria Research in Africa held June 23-30, 2004 in Legon, Accra, Ghana
Louis M. Weiss.,  M.D., M.P.H. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University	Emerging Pathogens in the 21st Century 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support a symposium at the International Congress on Microsporidiosis “Emerging Pathogens in the 21st Century: First United Workshop on Microsporidia from Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hosts” held July 12-15, 2004 at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
Daniel A. Portnoy, Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley	Microbial Toxins and Pathogenesis 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to support a session on Persistent Infections held at the Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenesis July 18-23, 2004 in Andover, New Hampshire.
Virginia Miller, Ph.D. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology	Microbial Pathogenesis: Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $8,000 to support a project entitled Microbial Pathogenesis: Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases at the FASEB Summer Research Conference held August 14-19, 2004 in Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Barbara A. Mann, Ph.D. University of Virginia School of Medicine	Entamoeba histolytica Post-Genome Meeting 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to help support the Entamoeba histolytica Post-Genome Meeting held September 18-19 2004 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Christine M. Disteche, Ph.D. International Mammalian Genome Society, Inc	International Mouse Genome Conference 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support two sessions, “Genome Instability and Aging” and “Genetics and Genomics of Infectious Disease,” at the 18th International Mouse Genome Conference to be held October 18-21, 2004 in Seattle, Washington. For further information, see http://www.mousegenomeconference.com/
John H. Adams, Ph.D. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	53rd Annual Meeting of Tropical Medicine 2004 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 symposium on Immune Evasion and Immunomodulation by Parasites as part of the 2004 Annual Meeting of Tropical Medicine to be held in Miami, Florida on November 7-11, 2004. The funds will also help support scientific sessions that... (more)
Kasturi Haldar, Ph.D. Northwestern University	Chicago-Area Mycology and Parasites or CAMP Club 2004 Conferences, Workshops & Education Award in Global Infectious Disease The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support a series of meetings on Mycology and Parasites to be held in the Chicago area in 2004.