Call for Applications: Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship for Demyelination and Remyelination: From Mechanism to Therapy

Call for Applications: Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship for Demyelination and Remyelination: From Mechanism to Therapy Thursday, June 26, 2014 7:45 AM - 5:45 PM The New York Academy of Sciences Presented by Biogen Idec and the New York Academy of Sciences Demyelinating diseases and disorders affect millions of people worldwide.  While multiple sclerosis is the one of the most widely recognized myelin-associated disorders, changes to the brain’s white matter can be found in a number of genetic, inflammatory, infectious, cerebrovascular, and neurodegenerative conditions and injuries. New breakthroughs in basic science research on the white matter microenvironment and oligodendrocyte precursor cell development have provided novel potential sites of action for therapeutics. Translation of these discoveries into biomarkers to predict clinical outcomes, and into biologics that can modulate myelination utilizing these pathways, may transform the treatment of currently incurable conditions. This one-day, translational conference will present recent findings in remyelination and repair from disease models and clinical trials, new techniques for imaging myelination changes in the brain and for screening molecular targets, and emerging therapeutics that promote remyelination. The deadline for poster abstract submission is Monday, April 28, 2014. Select poster abstracts will be chosen for short oral presentations. For complete abstract submis...
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